Death Valley - 2021

Sherri

 
 
Death Valley - 2021
From November 12, 2021 through November 19, 2021

Starting: November 12, 2021
Ending:  November 19, 2021
The Tri[p : Our People : Trail People : Thoughts :Trail Log : References 

Feb 28, 2022 - Added three references. 

The Trip:
 An eight day trip to Death Valley. But we spent a day more in Lone Pine, going up to Bishop and the Bristlecone Pines area.

 
Our People:

• Sherri.
  

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  Gary

  Gary
  

Trail People:
These people included many whom I think will be folks whom we keep in touch with. They include, and hopefully I do not missed anyone:

• Eric who is a travel writer, planner by trade

Thoughts:
Death Valley and the desert has a different kind of beauty than what I love (the Sierra). It takes awhile for me to appreciate it. So adventures like this one is good. Like people, God did not create with one brush, so I need to appreciate the different strokes of beauty He has given us.

Along with that, I am not used to the ways of the desert like I am of the mountains. There is a bit of naivete on my part. Such as navigating washes is different than the creeks of the Sierra. The skills are similar, but different it is enough that I understand that.


 
Trail Log:

Our journal is given by each day. Most mileages came from our GPS.
 

Date	Campsite	Miles Drove	Miles Walked	Elevation Gained	Max Elevation
Nov 12, 2021	Lone Pine, Best Western	264				Travel to Lone Pine
Nov 13, 2021	Lone Pine, Best Western	169	1.57	495'	10,357'	Movie Drive, Bristlecone Pine, Bishop
Nov 14, 2021	Texas Springs					Travel to Death Valley
Nov 15, 2021	Texas Springs	90	2.50	525'	5,593'	Desolation Canyon, Zabriskie Pt, Dante Pt
Nov 16, 2021	Texas Springs	36	4.67	751'	2,563'	Jensen Canyon and the Badlands Loop
Nov 17, 2021	Texas Springs	120	3.0	700'	2,885'	Salt Creek and Uhebe Crater
Nov 18, 2021	Texas Springs	40	5.26	1,147	944'	Artist Dip, Devils Golf Course
Nov 19, 2021	Home, Fresno	362	1.87	314'	2,694	Darwin Falls and returned home

Our total walking was 18.87 miles, Our "average day was 3.14 miles with an ascent of 652'.  The totals are not significant. Just the area traveled was starkly beautiful.

References:
For those of you who might be interested in hiking this hike, here are some references which you can consult:

• Book-Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative Of People And Places by William Caruthers. I have not read. But I am always interested in understanding the background to places.
  
•  Book-Across Death Valley: The Pioneer Journey of Juliet Wells Brier by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien. I have not read.
•  Book-Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion by Richard E. Lingenfelter
•  Book-Live! From Death Valley: Dispatches from America's Low Point by John Soennichsen. I have not read.
• Book-Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green ... children who gave "Death Valley" its name by William Lewis Manly. The book I read on this trip.
• The Wave blog site. Lots of map and photography information
• The Archaeology of Death Valley National Park from the Digital Archeological Record
• Rock Walls and Wooden Fence Posts: Archeological Inventory and Ethnohistorical Research in Johnson Canyon, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California  from the Digital Archeological Record
•  Archaeological Investigations in Death Valley National Monument 1952-1957 by WJ Wallace
  

Darwin Falls

Darwin Creek

Devils Golf Course

Devils Golf Course

Second wash of the Artist Dip

Walls of the Artist Dip

Artist Dip Wash

Morning from Texas Springs Campground

Flat spot around the Ubehebe Crater

Ubehebe Crater

Little Hebe Crater

Us at Old Stovepipe Wells

The Mummy in Jensen Canyon

End of Jensen Canyon

Badlands and Manly's Beacon

Jensen's Rock

Gary and Sherri in Jensen Canyon

Desolation Canyon

Desolation Canyon

Bristlecone Pine

Mt Whitney from Lone Pine

Mobius Arch with Mt Whitney in the background