January 18, 2017 Death Valley, California

Today we drove up the hole in the wall road and hiked up Slit Canyon.

I added two green wraps to the masterpiece in progress.  The Hole in the wall is the pass between the two walls in front of us.

The little valley after the Hole in The Wall. Lots of cool looking rocks in this place.

View on the way hiking to Slit Canyon. John climbing the first grotto. Above that is another 20 foot dry fall that we did not want to climb so we climbed around it and up a steep skree slope.

This is looking down the 20 foot dry fall we detoured around. More cool rocks. The last rock is mostly what we were climbing around- it was really rough-like really course sand paper, the kind of rock if you fell on it it would take off flesh.

The canyon became very narrow. John climbing up another dry fall.

The canyon narrowing into the Slit.

We stopped at the 50 foot dry fall and did not make it up to the second and third narrows. Here is John climbing back down a dry fall. Cool rocks, a big horn sheep skull and some grass cascading like hair.

Cool holes in the rock, lined with crystals. Back out in the Hole in the Wall valley you can see over  the dirt, the wall, the badlands we hiked around yesterday and across  Death Valley to the snow covered Panamint mountains.

More cool rock things.

We had lunch in this grotto, over looking the Hole in the wall. The clouds were really dramatic. I took this shot with the dramatic filter in my camera to show them off.

View of the Hole in the wall and the second one has the car in it so you can see how big the hole really is. The walls are more of that Bonanza King formations with the spooking holes in it.

The clouds got even cooler on the drive back to the main highway.