After leaving the Great State of Washington we continued on our way south through Oregon. At this point in the trip we had to decide whether we wanted to stay west along to coast or make our way inland. Originally the plan was to stay inland and stop in the Columbia River Gorge and Crater Lake National Park but the […]
Well it has been a while since I have posted any trip reports and that is because I have been pretty busy the last few months with planning the biggest adventure of my life. On September 9th I married my best friend and soulmate in what I have unofficially dubbed “Operation Wedding Bells”. It was truly the best day of […]
Hiking stats at a glance: Total Mileage = ~1.3 miles Hike Highlights = Obscured view of the ocean and WWII history I usually spend more time in local parks than anywhere else but I don’t often write about them here on the blog. Although many of them are really quite nice and certainly worth a visit if you happen […]
Even though a good amount of time has passed since my last post I am determined to finish up the posts related to this trip. Real life has been incredibly busy but things are starting to get back to a point where the adventure stories can begin rolling back out at a regular pace. So, lets get right to it. […]
After leaving Zabriskie Point we made our way over to the lowest point in North America, Badwater Basin. I have been here a couple of times before but this was actually the first time I had seen it so saturated with the recent rain fall. It was interesting to see such a typical dry place with so much standing water. […]
Unfortunately for us there was a big change in weather following our beautiful day in Palmer Canyon, but we weren’t going to let a little rain stop us from enjoying what Death Valley had to offer. I mean it IS Death Valley after all right? So, with the weather in mind we decided to spend the day checking out some […]
Hiking stats at a glance: Total Mileage = ~6 miles After spending a few hours driving through Titus Canyon I think everyone was ready for a hike to stretch our legs. Normally from this trailhead most people head over to Fall Canyon which is a relatively popular destination in Death Valley National Park. However, we decided to go with […]
After leaving Rhyolite we headed west down Route 374 (The main road leaving Rhyolite) and in about 2 miles we reached the turn off on the right hand side for the Titus Canyon Road. The road through Titus Canyon is a one way road covering about 27 miles through a narrow canyon on the border of Nevada and Death Valley National […]
After spending the night in Pahrump, Nevada we packed up the car and hit the road planning to head into Death Valley via Titus Canyon. However, on the way we decided to first make a stop at the Rhyolite Ghost Town. Rhyolite was a boom town founded in 1904 around mines in the area and was home to as many […]
When we pulled up to the Horseshoe Bend parking lot it was mostly empty and the weather was overcast but we figured it was such an easy walk in that it was worth a shot at a view. We were also pretty bummed from our experience at the Grand Canyon earlier in the day and four hours of sitting in […]
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