The last installment of the trip report for the Thanksgiving trip to Death Valley is the video. This was a great trip, and the video captures several moments not captured in the previous part 1 and part 2 posts. Enjoy! (and subscribe to our channel!) https://youtu.be/Qm73iRxZzI0
This post continues our Thanksgiving trip to Death Valley, see part 1 for the story up to now.
After a quiet night in the pinyons we were up and breaking down camp as the sun shone on the ridge. Reviewing a couple books and maps we picked out a couple highlights to check out as we worked our way though Saline Valley but the main objective was pretty loose, just check things out and see what we could see.
Death Valley is a special place. I can’t think of another National Park where you can truly get away from it all like you can in Death Valley. Heck, it’s hard to think of areas that aren’t the over commercialized tourist infested zones that most National Parks are, like the vast tracts of Forest Service and BLM lands, that have what Death Valley has to offer those willing to wander off the beaten path. The distances are vast, the roads are rough and the mountains are rugged, and perhaps my favorite, the people are few.
And that’s precisely why, with a reasonable block of time to get there all the way from Central Oregon that we headed there for a long Thanksgiving weekend.
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