Funeral Range Trail - Death Valley National Park, CA
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The Funeral Range Trail joins a long list of Death Valley areas with morbid names: Coffin Peak, Hell's Gate, Starvation Canyon and Dead Man Pass. The trail runs through the Funeral Mountains along Upper Echo Canyon and offers one of the few difficult trail runs within the national park. Tight canyon walls and rock ledges up to 3' in height will test a vehicle's articulation and a driver's skill level. In addition, the trail lies along the eastern edge of the park and starts and stops in two different states: California and Nevada.
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Furnace Creek Inn to Furnace Creek Ranch - Death Valley, California
Travel to the historic Furnace Creek Inn and and then to Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, California. Furnace Creek Inn is located in a palm-lined oasis at the foot of the Funeral Mountains, overlooking the desert salt pans and the picturesque Panamint Range in Death Valley National Park. The Ranch at Furnace Creek has western-themed grounds and is near the National Park Service Visitor's Center. Explore the famous date-palm grove next-door. End your video excursion with a tour of the ruins of Harmony Borax Works including video of an original 20 mule team wagon. This sequence was shot with a Canon HFS-100 and edited in Adobe Premier CS5.
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Chloride City Death Valley
Chloride City is located on the northern end of the Funeral Mountains in a remote part of Death Valley. We drove this road on April 20, 2018. This is an interesting drive that takes one to a the site (still a few crumbled ruins about including a “Cousin Jack”, many old mine portals and even a “mysterious” Grave. The town was established in 1905 when the Bullfrog, Nevada, gold discovery brought people into the area. The Death Valley National Park website describes it this way: “It became a ghost town the following year. There are numerous adits and dumps in the area and one grave of a James McKay, of whom nothing is known. In addition, there are remains of 3 stamp mills. It is located off a four wheel drive road 3.5 miles east of Hell’s Gate or off the dirt road 7 miles further east at the Park boundary.”
We accessed this road at the approximate 3.5 mile mark east of Hells gate. Traveling either direction this road is at first not easy to find. We drove right past it the first time traveling east. Turned around and found it “barely” coming back down (west) toward Devils Gate. Heading east (upgrade) the road is located off a curve and turns to the right. Downgrade (west) it leaves the road to the left.
The road is listed in some descriptions as high clearance 2wheel drive. I had my High clearance Jeep so used 4 wheel drive and I would recommend it if you do drive this road, it was much smoother on the loose rock and steep sections. The road condition to the site of Chloride and the grave is not bad as you will see in the video. Just use caution as always. Past the Ghost town the roads are much steeper, have bigger rocks and very steep drop offs (shelf roads). Also, many old mines adits and structures are scattered in the area and the roads to these and untamed as well. I used low range 4x4, and for ease and less slipping the lockers a few times. With that all said, enjoy a trip to Chloride City and area located in Death Valley National Park.
Echo Canyon Trail - Death Valley National Park, CA
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Echo Canyon boasts some of Death Valley's best qualities with its spectacular scenery, twisty canyons, rock arches, and mining history. This road is very popular among visitors as it can be easily driven with most street-legal vehicles and it is less than ten minutes away from the popular Furnace Creek Inn.
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Chloride Cliff 4wd Road - Death Valley National Park, California
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Situated on the east side of Death Valley National Park, within the Funeral Range Mountains, lies one of the oldest mines in the entire national park as well as the highest point overlooking Badwater Valley. Chloride Cliff 4x4 Road passes through the remains of Chloride City townsite and the grave of James McKay - a man with no history. At the end of this spur trail, a steep and rocky climb offers the traveler a spectacular view of Badwater Basin to the south and Death Valley to the north from over 5000' feet above the valley floor.
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Death Valley National Park dawn
Sunrise, begin pan looking east toward Funeral Mountains, pan westward looking at Tucki Mountain at the Salt Creek Flats, just north of the Harmony Borax Works, in Death Valley National Park, Oct. 8, 2013. Shot with an iPhone 5c. Full circle pan.
Bighorn Rams Death Valley
Two bighorn rams captured close up on the summit of Pyramid Peak, Southeast Funeral Mountains in Death Valley National Park - September 2017. Being downwind from the boys, they were unaware of me as they approached to within fifteen yards of my hiding place.
Saline Valley: Ubehehe Crater to Racetrack Playa to Lippincott Pass to Warms Springs @ Death Valley
Saline Valley: Ubehehe Crater to Racetrack Playa to Lippincott Pass to Warms Springs @ Death Valley, Jeep club
Daylight Peak Death Valley
This seldom climbed peak is the highpoint of the ridgeline transversing Daylight Pass between Beatty, NV and the Death Valley Buttes. There are a total of four knolls between the highway parking spot and the summit. Not visible from the highway are strange rock formations, caves, geode beds and colorful plants and lichens. The views of The Funerals, Grapevines, Panamints and Cottonwoods are superb. This moderately strenuous hike takes only a half day at most. This was shot in September 2017 when the temperature was in the high 90's.
Prom 8432, Death Valley, Last Chance Range
Prom 8432, Death Valley, Last Chance Range
Death Valley NP, March 2010
Video picturelog of my trip to Death Valley National Park (3/14-3/19). We were in the backcountry and camped for 5 nights at the base of the Funeral Mountains. Beautiful campsite with incredible views of the sunset. We had good weather (mid to high 80's) and knock-me-over high winds for 2 nights.
Most of the hiking we did throughout the week was all backcountry and not established trails. That was great because outside of our group, we didn't see hoards of people everywhere. Most of the time it was just our group. There were many highlights of the trip but the one that stood out was when we climbed high atop a cliff and could see both the lowest point in North America (Badwater, 282 feet below sea level) as well as the highest point in the lower 48 states, Mt. Whitney (14,505 ft), from a single location. Very cool stuff.
Death Valley can be summed up like this: Hot, dry, big, unique and brimming with life. The vegetation blew me away -- each plant has evolved its own different ways of hoarding moisture and surviving in one of most inhospitable environments in the world.
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Echo Canyon timelapse Death Valley CA Furnace Creek to Armagossa Las Vegas off road
Echo Canyon Rd timalpse from Furnace Creek passing through Inyo Mine, Echo Canyon steps technical section and exiting in Armagossa Valley.
For those that want to skip to the high lights:
2:30 Entering the Echo Canyon
5:20 Exiting first canyon
8:40 Inyo Mine turn off
9:05 Inyo Mine parking area and mine
12:00 Entering Funeral Range Canyon canyon
13:45 Echo Canyon steps technical section
19:25 Entering last canyon on way out
22:30 Exit of last canyon
26:00 First views of Armagossa Valley
I ran the steps in the Suburban without a spotter on the first attempt. On the way up we rant into the silver Jeep who said that the road came to a dead end and was impassible, silly Jeep.
2000 K1500 Suburban
3 body lift
AFP coilovers
37 tires
Death Valley Furnace Creek Tour
Located in Eastern California, Death Valley Mojave Desert area is the hottest lowest driest region in North America with Furnace Creek holding the world's hottest temperature record at 134 °F on July 10, 1913. On the edge of a playa at the bottom of the valley floor,Furnace Creek has sparse vegetation, but a campground does have some shade trees.
Furnace Creek is on the edge of a playa at the bottom of the valley floor. It is fairly open with sparse vegetation, though some sites do have trees that provide shade.
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Death Valley adventure trip, November 2009
For desert enthusiasts and novices alike, Death Valley National Park is deservedly renowned. Home to extremes such as lowest point, driest weather, and the hottest temperatures in North America, Death Valley is nonetheless astonishingly full of life. After a morning soak at Tecopa Hot Springs, we'll head for Zabriskie Point at the edge of the Funeral Mountains. Explore the colorful badlands of rain-sculpted mudstone, then visit the salt flats of Badwater, the lowest point in the western hemisphere.
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Longstreet Inn & Casino - Amargosa Valley Hotels, Nevada
Longstreet Inn & Casino 3 Stars Hotel in Amargosa Valley, Nevada Within US Travel Directory Located 61.
2 km from Death Valley National Park, this Amargosa motel features an outdoor pool and hot tub.
The on-site casino offers entertainment options.
Free Wi-Fi is included in all rooms.
Cable TV is featured in all air-conditioned guest rooms at Longstreet Inn & Casino.
After a day of gaming, guests can take a leisurely stroll around the duck ponds complete with a waterfall.
Hiking and fishing are available at Amargosa Longstreet Inn & Casino.
Guests can enjoy traditional American fare including burgers and hot dogs at Amargosa Café.
Las Vegas is 144.
8 km from this motel.
Funeral Mountains Wilderness Area is 20 minutes’ drive away.
Longstreet Inn & Casino - Amargosa Valley Hotels, Nevada - USA
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Death Valley National Park, California - Artist's Drive (Afternoon Drive) HD (2016)
Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is an area on the face of the Black Mountains noted for a variety of rock colors. These colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (iron compounds produce red, pink and yellow, decomposition of tuff-derived mica produces green, and manganese produces purple).
Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration cause the oxidation and other chemical reactions that produce the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation.
Thimble Peak In One Minute - Death Valley National Park
Summiting Thimble Peak with panoramas of Corkscrew Peak, Grapevine, Funeral, Panamint and Cottonwood Mountain ranges.
Descending into Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California
Driving in the park.
Death Valley National Park, California - Artist's Palette HD (2016)
Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is an area on the face of the Black Mountains noted for a variety of rock colors. These colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (iron compounds produce red, pink and yellow, decomposition of tuff-derived mica produces green, and manganese produces purple).
Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration cause the oxidation and other chemical reactions that produce the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation.
Rain at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley
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I made this trip in March, 2016. Video shot with a Brinno TLC-200 Pro time-lapse camera, mounted on my roof with a homemade magnetic case. I travel with two Brinno cameras - one facing forward, the other in reverse. Sometimes the reverse camera captures better video (fewer raindrops and bugs hit the rear-view lens).
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