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TRIP
LEADER: Harry
Lewellyn (aka, the Silver Coyote)
This four-day camping Death Valley National Park backcountry
tour mixes warm and cool, desert and
forest, and high and low elevations.
 WHAT: Worldwide travelers proclaim the beauty
and grandeur of Death Valley National Park and never leave the pavement! We
live in it for four days.
For this Death Valley backcountry
tour, we
depart Lone Pine at
8 a.m. on morning one. Our
destination is the Warm Spring in Saline Valley (a sister
valley, and part of Death Valley National Park). Before
our get acquainted potluck dinner that evening, we'll explore
an ancient Indian flaking mound and possibly make it to some
petroglyphs.
 Day
two finds us inching our way up the Lippencott Mine Road past
the Racetrack, Teakettle Junction and eventually the Ubehebe
Crater for lunch. After reprovisioning at Stove Pipe Wells,
Death Valley National Park, we
head for a chilly night at the 8,000-foot high at the Mahogany Flats
camp ground.
Bright
and early the next morning, it's off to the ghost town
of Ballarat, Goler Wash, Manson's hideout and eventually Butte Valley for the evening.
Day four finds us working our way out Warm Spring Canyon to
the highway for the much too soon trip home.
TRIP DIFFICULTY RATING: This tour is rated More
Difficult. |
BACKCOUNTRY TOUR
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