death valley trip

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Posted by up there on July 22, 2004 at 14:45:37:

kind of late reporting the trip me and my girlfreind took in late may but here it is. We left our home in 1000 oaks calif. on wed. and drove to Independance spent the night in this great little hotel across the street from the couthouse called of course the courthouse motel. left early and took a drive up to onion valley in the sierra and picked up a guy hitchhiking up to the pacific crest trail he was about 50 wighed maybe 120 and smoked one camel non filter after another. This guy was hiking 2600 miles? i guess cigs don't bother some. We drove to big pine and took the big pine road up over the Inyo's headed south on the saline road and took a spur road up into the pinons and found this beautiful place to pitch our tent for the night. No moon that night and we spent a couple of hours after dinner just watching the most stars i have never seen so many and so clear and so quiet, the only car we saw was the next morning that came by of course at the exact moment when my girlfreind was using the bush :o) Drove to the eurika dunes and had them all to ourselves but very very windy what a haunting place we could have been on another planet. Stopped in a place called crater on the way to beatty an abandoned sulphur mine. It will take nature 10,000 years to reclaim that eyesore. Beatty ah beatty i think this will be the last time i stay at this place. driving to there one stop light i did not make a complete stop and got pulled over, well the cop tells me nicely enough to get out of my truck that i had a warrent in the state of nevada from 10 years ago and i was arrested and spent the night in the lovely brand new beatty jail till my girlfreind could drive to pahrump to get money wired to get me out. There is something strange about this town i feel maybe some time in its past something bad happened there. So much for towns and people we drove as soon as i got out of jail away from there to the valley drove up trail canyon in the panamints found a nice flat area where we made camp and spent the next three days enjoying some graet day hikes and the beauty of the vally. Saw alot of wildlife up there we were hiking up this one side canyon and kept seeing these huge chuckwallas there were two dozen of them and some bighorn way up on a ridge above us. Took a day to hike up jayhawker canyon kind of difficult to find but there are some real interesting things to see up there if you take the time. We thought it might be cool to stay at the amargosa opera house, we saw marta perform a month earlier so off we went and we we were the only guests that night. No other people at all stayed there that night even the people that worked there, kind of earie since its supposed to be haunted, did we see anything unusual? stay there and see it's a n experience. The next day we spent exploring ash meadows, i was expecting some small springs the place is an 24,000 acre wildlife refuge with a pring fed lake a couple of miles wide an incredable treasure i hope will always stay there. On home we went till next time please respect this park and the land around it it is such a rare place that needs to be treasured.

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