Hiking Death Valley Guide to Its Natural Wonders and Mining Past

by Digonnet, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780965917803
• ISBN10: 0965917800
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-15
• Publisher: Wilderness Press

Summary

With Elevations Ranging from 282 feet below sea level to 11,049 feet, a world-famous climate, and some of the most spectacular scenery in the North American desert, Death Valley National Park is a year-round hiker's paradise. Hundreds of miles of trails and cross-country routes lead to countless canyons, springs, and abandoned mines, most of them infrequently visited. Whether you want to stroll on salt flats, hike a lonesome canyon, climb a rugged peak, visit a remote gold mine, or simply explore the backcountry by car, this comprehensive guidebook provides dozens of destinations suited to your interests. Illustrated with original topographic maps, this book will guide you to Death Valley's most popular sites and many spectacular, out-of-the-way places, illustrating the remarkable diversity of its terrain, geology, flora, and fauna. Many of the region's historic mines, camps, and ghost towns are also described, including accounts of their fascinating and colorful past. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(4)
About This Book	5	(6)
Part I. A Few Basic Facts	11	(52)
Natural and Human History	11	(32)
The Region	11	(1)
Weather	12	(3)
Geology	15	(10)
Flora	25	(5)
Fauna	30	(3)
Native American History	33	(4)
Mining History	37	(6)
Desert Hiking Tips	43	(16)
Best Seasons for Hiking	43	(1)
Water: Needs and Availability	44	(2)
Handling the Terrain	46	(2)
Backcountry Regulations	48	(2)
Rock Climbing	50	(1)
Hazards	51	(4)
Backcountry Driving	55	(2)
Wilderness Ethics	57	(2)
Services	59	(4)
Food	59	(1)
Public Showers	59	(1)
Campgrounds	59	(2)
Lodging	61	(1)
Service Stations	61	(1)
Visitor Center	61	(1)
Useful Phone Numbers	62	(1)
Part II. Grapevine Mountains	63	(36)
Red Wall Canyon	69	(6)
Fall Canyon	75	(6)
Leadfield and Upper Titus Canyon	81	(8)
Titus Canyon Narrows	89	(4)
Titanothere Canyon	93	(6)
Part III. Funeral Mountains	99	(56)
Monarch Canyon	105	(6)
Chloride Cliff	111	(8)
The Big Bell Extension Mine	119	(8)
The Keane Wonder Mine	127	(10)
Indian Pass Canyon	137	(6)
Echo Canyon and the Inyo Mine	143	(8)
Slit Canyon	151	(4)
Part IV. Black Mountains	155	(78)
Golden Canyon	161	(4)
Gower Gulch	165	(4)
Twenty Mule Team Canyon	169	(6)
Desolation Canyon	175	(4)
Artist Drive Area	179	(6)
Natural Bridge Canyon	185	(4)
Bad Canyon	189	(6)
Sheep Canyon	195	(4)
Willow Creek	199	(6)
Scotty's Canyon	205	(6)
Ashford Canyon	211	(6)
Virgin Spring Canyon and the Desert Hound Mine	217	(10)
Ibex Spring	227	(6)
Part V. Valley Floor and Alluvial Fans	233	(52)
Mesquite Flat	237	(4)
The Kit Fox Hills	241	(6)
The Death Valley Sand Dunes	247	(6)
Nevares Springs and Nevares Peak	253	(6)
Harmony Borax Works and the Borax Haystacks	259	(6)
The Badwater Basin	265	(6)
Saratoga Spring	271	(8)
Death Valley	279	(6)
Part VI. The Last Chance Range	285	(44)
Last Chance Mountain	291	(4)
Dry Mountain	295	(6)
The Ubehebe Mine	301	(6)
Corridor Canyon	307	(4)
The Racetrack Valley	311	(6)
Ubehebe Peak and the Copper Queen Mines	317	(6)
The Lippincott Mine and Dodd Springs	323	(6)
Part VII. Cottonwood Mountains	329	(58)
Bighorn Gorge	335	(6)
Dry Bone Canyon	341	(6)
Perdido Canyon	347	(6)
Lost Burro Mine	353	(4)
Lower Marble Canyon	357	(6)
Upper Marble Canyon	363	(6)
Cottonwood Canyon	369	(6)
Lemoigne Canyon	375	(8)
The Kerdell Prospect	383	(4)
Part VIII. Panamint Mountains	387	(86)
Stretched-Pebble Canyon	395	(4)
Mosaic Canyon	399	(6)
Grotto Canyon	405	(6)
Little Bridge Canyon	411	(4)
Trail Canyon	415	(8)
South Fork of Trail Canyon	423	(6)
Hanaupah Canyon	429	(6)
Johnson Canyon	435	(6)
Warm Spring Canyon	441	(8)
Telephone Canyon	449	(6)
Skidoo	455	(6)
Jayhawker Canyon	461	(6)
Burns Spring and Journigan's Mill	467	(6)
Part IX. Eureka, Saline, and Panamint Valleys	473	(50)
The Eureka Dunes	479	(6)
Saline Valley	485	(10)
The Inyo Mountains	495	(6)
The Panamint Valley Dunes	501	(4)
Darwin Falls	505	(6)
Wildrose Canyon	511	(6)
Wildrose Peak and Telescope Peak	517	(6)
Bibliography	523	(6)
Index	529