We went t0Titus Canyon, which is a 30 one way canyon that ends in tight narrows. You can drive to the bottom end and hike in. We were going to ride our bikes from the bottom end to the end of the narrows.
View on the way to Titus Canyon. Once we got there and I was on my bike I saw a sign that said no bikes allowed from the bottom end. Oh well, we decided to hike it, it is only 1.5 miles to the end of the narrows. Road in the narrows of Titus Canyon.
Breccia on one of the walls of Titus Canyon. There were lots of wild flowers, mostly nice fields of purple phacilia and white gravel ghosts like these.
John walking back down Titus Canyon. On the way back we stopped at The old Stovepipe wells. It is the only water near the sand dunes. When the sand blows over they would put a stove pipe in it so people could find it. It was on the road from Skidoo to Ryolite. Now it is pretty much covered over and an interesting thing to see.
On the road near the Stovepipe wells was this grave marker. Val Nolan, died Aug 1, 1931, buried Nov 6, 1931. A victim of the Elements. Not sure what his story was, he was in sight of the well. After our grueling hot day we went to the pool and Stovepipe and had a shower. Lovely pool. You have to pay $4 each if you are camping, but it was worth it.
Chuckwalla lizard, purple flowering bus, yellow flowering plant and seed pod of the yellow one. Some cool rock patterns on the walls of Titus Canyon.
The basket is finally done. I still need to shellac it, and that will dull the red and blue colors some, but they are pretty bright now, so it will still look good. Monday morning the wind came up again. High wind and blowing sand.
John in front of the bus checking the turn signals in the wind. Blowing tents.
We went below sea level, above and going below again. There are fields of yellow flowers on the other side of the sign. The blowing dust is almost obscuring the mountains on the other side of the valley. Out of Death Valley there is not as much blowing sand, but still lots of wind. There are yellow flowers blooming on the side of Eagle Mountain.
Back in Shoshone the wind was blowing so hard the power and internet went out. It died down a little in the late afternoon and I went for a walk. Wind blown brittle bush flowers on the bluff.
Backlit monkey flowers on the path and a sheltered backlit brittle bush.
The cactus are really blooming. Sunset on blowing dust.
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