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Bishop-D Valley 08 Bishop-D Valley 08

4 Pah Arm ZPt Sho Bar

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May 16, 2013
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Bishop-D Valley 08 Bishop-D Valley 08

4 Pah Arm ZPt Sho Bar

May 16, 2013
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080327-5058PahrumpMoonrise (On the road in the western fringe of Pahrump.)

080327-5061WofPahrumpMoonrise (West of Pahrump, headed back to Death Valley.)

080327-5064HouseInRock (Approaching Shoshone (again), are these holes in the rocks.)

080327-5065HouseInRock (These 'houses' actually stay at a fairly constant cool temperature, compared to 120+ degrees outside in summer.)

080327-5067HouseInRock (Hole in the hill just southeast of Shoshone.)

080327-5069ShoshonePOMarket (Passing the Shoshone Post Office and historic Charles Brown market. Notice the 'DV' on the hillside.)

080327-5070NofShoshoneMoon (Just north of Shoshone.)

080327-5072NofShoshoneHwySign (I'm going to Death Valley Junction, which confusingly was once called Armagosa, not to be confused with Armagosa Valley Jct.)

080327-5073SEagleMtnFrDVJct (I'm just south of Death Valley Junction. Eagle Mountain in the distance was about the only interesting thing on the way.)

080327-5075DeathValJctCem (This is the cemetery on the southern outskirts of Death Valley Jct.)

080327-5078DeathValJctBldgTanks (I could not figure out how to get closer to these remnants in Death Valley Jct.)

080327-5081DeathValJctGarage (This was once Death Valley Junction garage.)

080327-5082ArmagosaOperaHouse (This is the historic Armagosa opera house in Death Valley Junction.)

080327-5085DeathValJctHotelSign (A dilapidated sign and the DVJ garage.)

080327-5087NofDVJHwySign (Just north of DVJ, looking south toward Eagle Mountain.)

080327-5088DVJctBldgEagleMtn

080327-5091WofDVJSignMoon (West of Death Valley Junction.)

080327-5094MtnFormation (A view on the way to Zabriskie Point in Death Valley.)

080327-5096MtnMoon (Another moon shot.)

080327-5100MtnMoon (And a horizontal shot at the same area.)

080327-5101ZabriskiePtSign (This one sort of snuck up on me.)

080327-5102ZabriskiePt (You have to walk up the hill to the lookout.)

080327-5104ZabriskiePt (The northerly view at Zabriskie Point.)

080327-5105ZabriskiePt

080327-5106ZabriskiePt (A westerly view toward the valley.)

080327-5107ZabriskiePt (The southerly view of the hills.)

080327-5110ZabriskiePtMoon (Another moon shot at Zabriskie Point.)

080327-5112ZabriskiePtPhotog (A photographer at Zabriskie Point.)

080327-5116ZabriskiePt (A wider southerly view.)

080327-5119ZabriskiePtMyShadow (Me and my shadow at Zabriskie Point.)

080327-5123-20MTCynSignTruck (Onward toward 20-Mule Team Canyon. I waited for this truck to come by :-))

080327-5124-20MTCyn (20-Mule Team Canyon.)

080327-5129-20MTCyn (20-Mule Team Canyon.)

080327-5130-20MTCyn

080327-5132-20MTCyn

080327-5133-20MTCyn (The side of the road in 20-Mule Team Canyon.)

080327-5137DantesRoadSign (Heading toward Dante's View, my last planned stop in Death Valley.)

080327-5139RyanFactory (Not far up the road is the 'town' of Ryan, still active.)

080327-5140DantesPlaquePeople (At Dante's View, at about 5,400 ft up. The plaque points out various features such as snow-covered Telescope Peak, over 11,000 ft high.)

080327-5143Dantes (Looking northwesterly. Badwater is at the base of the mountain in the lower center.)

080327-5144Dantes

080327-5145DantesPeople (Coming down the ridgeline from the plaque to another observation area.)

080327-5146Dantes (The 'other' viewpoint, and snow-covered Telescope Peak in the background.)

080327-5147DantesPeople

080327-5148Dantes (Past the 'other' viewpoint, you can continue to 'another' viewpoint.)

080327-5149DantesPlant (A plant at Dante's View.)

080327-5156Dantes (Dante's View.)

080327-5158Dantes (Me and my shadow at Dante's View.)

080327-5159Dantes (The beginning of the road down.)

080327-5168RyanBldgs (These are/were the worker's housing at Ryan.)

080327-5170NofShoshoneRdWork (Had to decide which way to leave Death Valley. Back-tracking to Shoshone (again!) seemed better than the longer way around though Badwater. Here is a road-crack sealing crew I just passed through.)

080327-5171ShoshoneMus (This time I stopped at the museum, which was actually very nice.)

080327-5176ShoshoneMus (Ancient pachyderm bones on display.)

080327-5178ShoshoneMus (The full display, still in progress.)

080327-5181ShoshoneMus

080327-5182ShoshoneMus (A display about women in Death Valley.)

080327-5183ShoshoneMus (Historical photos document the changes to the museum building.)

080327-5184ShoshoneCabin (There is a collection of historical/interesting buildings in Shoshone. This is the front of a miner's cabin originally from Boulder Dam.)

080327-5185ShoshoneSheriff (Originally a restaurant for the T and T Railroad, this became the Inyo County Sheriff's station after the Crowbar restaurant was built.)

080327-5186ShoshoneFlowerBldg (This is known as the Flower Building, from the 1930's. Originally just a slab for rollerskating and games, it gained walls and roof, and later a stage. In the late '40's it was used as a school. Today it is used as a community center.)

080327-5187ShoshoneErnestHuhnHs (This house was built in 1951 by a local prospector, Ernie Huhn, known as Siberian Red because of his red hair and stories of working the Siberia mine. He died in 1952.)

080327-5188ShoshoneCestCiBon (The C'est Ci Bon Cafe was originally located 20 miles north in Evelyn, and was used for the T and T Railroad crew's office and residence.)

080327-5189ShoshoneDrillingRocks (Remnants of old dynamite-hole drilling contests.)

080327-5190ShoshonePO (The Post Office, built in 1964. The mural is by the same artist who worked on the mammoth exhibit in the museum.)

080327-5192ShoshoneInn (The 16-unit Shoshone Inn was built in 1958.)

080327-5193ShoshoneOldFireTruck (A volunteer fire truck.)

080327-5195ShoshoneMotel (This motel built in the late '30s operated through the mid- '80s, and there are plans for renovation.)

080327-5197ShoshoneChsBrownHs (The Charles and Stella Brown house, built from a Sears kit in 1926. It now serves as the Armagosa Conservancy headquarters.)

080327-5198ShoshoneMus (More museum displays.)

080327-5199ShoshoneMus (Rock displays.)

080327-5200DublinGulch (This is the Dublin Gulch area (mis-spelled on the sign) just behind town.)

080327-5201DublinGulch (It consists of hole in the hill rooms as seem earlier. Stovepipes project out the top.)

080327-5202DublinGulch (A collection of tin cans.)

080327-5203DublinGulch

080327-5204DublinGulch

080327-5205DublinGulchOuthouse (And one more 'can'.)

080327-5206DublinGulch (Almost an apartment complex.)

080327-5207ShoshoneCem (Between town and Dublin Gulch is a small cemetery. This is one of the fanciest markers.)

080327-5208ShoshoneCem

080327-5209ShoshoneCem (This is one of the plainer markers.)

080327-5210ShoshoneCem (The dates are interesting. I wonder why she died early...)

080327-5211DublinHillsTrucks (I'm headed south to Baker, but these trucks are going north through a similarly named area, Dublin Hills.)

080327-5214DublinHills (These hills are fairly soft. You can see footprints in the center.)

080327-5216DublinHills (Looking the other direction.)

080327-5218SofShoshoneRd (This is the road. Not much excitement.)

080327-5219HarryWadeMrkr (A bit further down is this marker about Harry Wade successfully finding a way out of the valley.)

080327-5221BakerBobsBigBoy (In Baker, this is the sign for Bob's Big Boy restaurant, somewhat confusingly part of the Bun Boy Motel.)

080327-5226Bakerthermometer (This is probably the main attraction in Baker, the world's tallest thermometer at 130+ feet..)

080327-5228BakerMadGreek (The Mad Greek is supposedly very good food. I still had a ways to go, so I had Jack in the Box on the road.)

080327-5231KelsoDepot (Kelso station.)

080327-5233KelsoDepot (Kelso station.)

080327-5235KelsoDisplay (One of many displays.)

080327-5236KelsoGiftShop (The Kelso gift shop.)

080327-5238KelsoDisplay (Another display.)

080327-5240KelsoRRMap (The old railroad map.)

080327-5244KelsoDisplay (Another display.)

080327-5245KelsoDisplay

080327-5246KelsoDiningRoom (The lunch room.)

080327-5247KelsoDisplay (Kelso memorabilia.)

080327-5250KelsoDepot (Front view.)

080327-5251KelsoCloud (Before the next shot, I saw a black rectangular speck in the viewfinder, so I blew it out with a small blower brush. Then I shot the sky to see if the speck was gone. I like the clouds, so I'm keeping the shot.)

080327-5252KelsoDepot

080327-5253KelsoPO (The post office is across the street from the Kelso station parking lot.)

080327-5254KelsoRuins (Some Kelso remnants just down the road.)

080327-5255KelsoHouse (House ruins down the road in Kelso.)

080327-5257KelsoHouse

080327-5260KelsoDunes (Back on the Kelbaker Rd heading south to join Hwy 66. The Kelso dunes are on the right, and a factory of some type sits all by itself.)

080327-5262GraniteMtns (The Granite Mountains as I get closer to Hwy 66.)

080327-5263GraniteMtns (More Granite Mountains.)

080327-5266GraniteMtns

080327-5269SofKelsoMine (Nearing Route 66 is this active mine operation.)

080327-5270AmboyShoeTree (On Route 66 headed west toward Amboy in the distance, you'll pass this tamarisk, the famous 'shoe tree'.)

080327-5272AmboyShoeTree (A better view.)

080327-5273AmboyChurchTrain (I had to scramble out of the car and frame up this shot to catch the passing train.)

080327-5276AmboyAirportBldg (An old airfield runway heads directly away from the camera to the left of this building.)

080327-5279AmboyFactory (On the south side of the railroad tracks at Amboy is this factory.)

080327-5287LudlowBldg (Coming into Ludlow.)

080327-5288LudlowGarage (Remnants of a Ludlow garage.)

080327-5289LudlowCafe (This is a famous and functioning cafe, though the apple pie was a disappointment.)

080327-5303BagdadCafeMan (Down the road in Newberry Springs is the restaurant made famous in the movie 'The Bagdad Cafe'. It used to be called the Sidewinder, but kept the 'new' name afterword.)

080327-5305BagdadMotel (Across the dirt parking lot next to the Bagdad Cafe is the abandoned Henning motel.)

080327-5309BagdadMotel (Another shot of the Henning motel.)

080327-5312SolarOneTower (This is the Solar One tower at the now-defunct experimental solar power plant.)

080327-5314ElectricalPlant (Not far down the road is this electrical generator station.)

080327-5317DaggettGarageFront (A historial building with marker is the Daggett garage.)

080327-5318DaggettGarageRear (Sometimes the back side is more interesting.)

080327-5319DaggettBldgs (More dead buildings in Daggett.)

080327-5320DaggettDesertMarket (This one is alive and well.)

080327-5322BarstowClassificationYd (Barstow is the biggest town and railway center in the whole area. This area probably has 50 tracks or spurs side-by-side.)

080327-5326BarstowTrainSunset (This is the slightly smaller area of the tracks. Just off the right of the shot near the end of the bridge is a nice Route 66 museum, train museum, and historical station.)

080327-5285SiberiaRuins (This is the ruins of Siberia, a few miles down the road.)

080327-5284BagdadTree (This tree marks downtown Bagdad, California. Like many other Route 66 stops, it is disappearing back into the desert.)

080327-5297LudlowFireTruck (The Ludlow decorative firetruck.)

080327-5296LudlowCafeWindow (The odd window of the Ludlow cafe.)

080327-5294LudlowCafeWall (The Ludlow cafe wall of fame.)

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