Wed & Thurs - Aug 14 & 15

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Early wake up again but there is a reason here... get to Death Valley BEFORE it gets HOT!! (It was 100 degrees by 8:30 a.m.)(sigh) Was very impressed with Death Valley. We could have done near 20 Earthcaches but didn't have the time (nor the energy to fight the temps!) One of the most impressvie was at the "How low can you go" Earthcache where you looked at the mountain behind the parking lot and WAAAYYYY up the mountain is this sign saying "SEA LEVEL"... wow! Didn't get too many counties in this area as we had no cell signal for most of the day!! We got out of Death Valley by about 1 and had a long mountain drive with deep valleys and finally ended up at Mammoth Mountain resort. A big ski place in winter but now we were there for web cam pictures. We went back into NV for the night and then headed to spend the night in Oregon. We stopped and went to the virtual about Pre Fontain (the famous runner who died young) near our hotel that night Here are some hightlights: Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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So here we are 6:30 a.m. entering Death Valley... Is it me or is already hot???	Very sparse vegetation... later there was NONE... it is dry out here!	Wow... don't hike after 10 a.m. or you will die! Now that's a warning sign!!
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Cool land formations here	Heat Kills!	At the Earthcache "Death Valley, The Badlands at Zabriskie Point"
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A pano of the area
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	A marker saying the 49's came though here to California	I acually wonder how they made it!!
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Took this snapshot of my phone screen program showing the altitude of our lcoation! Yes, that is MINUS 249 feet below sea level!	The Devils Golfcourse Earthcache	Pano
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Grampa Bob 14 playing out of the rough on the Devils Golfcourse	Looking north	Looking south - flat and dry both ways!
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Cool movie - at the end is the sign SEA LEVEL wayyyy up the mountain!!	Lots of information boards
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	Taken for the Virtual "Don't Drink the Water"
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	Check out those temps!
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Furnace Creek is an oasis in the middle of Death Valley with a virtual in it. Still hot! Has a hotel and museum too.	Virtual "Lego Dan's Death Valley RR cache"	They mined Borax out of Death Valley... don't know how anyone can LIVE here but they did and WORKED long days in this heat!
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	Earthcache "Death Valley"
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Some sturdy shrubs with incredible root systems	Hiding behind a "Devil's Cornfield" (Earthcache)	Manzanar - one of the Japanese internment camps during WWII. Wow... it was giant and made me look it up and learn more about them afterwards!
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