Hiking from Race Track to Lake Hill in Death Valley
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From start to end
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 Driving towards Race Track Valley |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Tin Mt? |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Race Track Rd |
 Entering Race Track Valley |
 Entering Race Track |
 Entering Race Trackonument |
 Race Track |
 Race Track |
 Race Track |
 Race Track |
 Race Track |
Race Track |
 Race Track (east ridge) |
 Race Track (north and east) |
 Grand Stand |
 Race Track |
 Looking back one last time at the Race Track |
 Entering Quail Canyon |
 Top of Quail Canyon (if you are coming from the south) |
 If you are coming from the south, the left branch goes to Race Track, NOT the right one |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Cactus |
 Down the canyon |
 Wildflowers |
 Down the canyon |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Down the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 Cacti |
 Down the canyon |
 Up the canyon |
 Plants |
 Into the canyon |
 Down the canyon |
 Into Quail Canyon |
 Into Quail Canyon |
 Many little waterfalls to downclimb (no water) |
 Into the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 First view of Saline Valley |
 Some big drops (but not difficult to find a way to get around them) |
 Wildflowers |
 The waterfall from the other side |
Another big drop |
 Another big drop (the canyon bed is 20 meters below us) |
 Another big drop (the canyon bed is 20 meters below us) |
 The waterfall from the other side |
 The way to get around it |
 Into the canyon |
 Into the canyon |
 Yet another big drop |
 Alien ball |
 Downclimbing |
 Downclimbing |
 Downclimbing |
 Into the canyon |
 And now: bushwhacking (some underground springs, obviously) |
 Saline Valley getting closser |
 Actual water coming down from a southeastern tributary |
| Follow the creek |
 Follow the creek |
 Almost in Saline Valley |
 Saline Valley |
 Saline Valley |
 Saline Valley |
 Heading south towards Saline Valley Rd |
 Heading south towards Saline Valley Rd |
 Heading south towards Saline Valley Rd |
 Heading south towards Saline Valley Rd |
 Heading south towards Saline Valley Rd |
 Heading south towards Saline Valley Rd |
 Cactus flower |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Found the road! |
 Looking back at the route to Quail Canyon |
 Looking back at the route to Quail Canyon |
 Looking back at the route to Quail Canyon |
 Looking back at the route to Quail Canyon |
 Mountains ahead |
 Follow Salive Valley Rd south |
 Cactus flower |
 Cactus flower |
 Follow the road |
 Follow the road |
 A few springs along the road |
 Nest of? |
 Nest of? |
 The dirt road coasts a dry riverbed |
 The dirt road coasts a dry riverbed |
 Looking towards Saline Valley |
 Looking towards Saline Valley |
 The implacable road |
 Saline Valley |
 Almost at Hunter Mt |
 Hunter Mt Rd |
 Joshua trees almost at the junction |
 The junction with Hunter Mt Rd, and beginning of the descent into Mill Canyon |
 The junction with Hunter Mt Rd, and beginning of the descent into Mill Canyon |
 The junction with Hunter Mt Rd, and beginning of the descent into Mill Canyon |
 Lake Hill |
 Telescope Peak far down south |
 We abandon Saline Valley Rd |
 Lake Hill down below: we finally see the destination |
 Down Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Mill Canyon |
 Wildflowers |
 Wildflowers |
 Mill Canyon |
 Spring |
 Spring |
 Spring |
 Deadly encounter with mountain lion (puma) |
 The tallest waterfall to bypass |
 The way to bypass it |
 The waterfall to the left and the bypass to the right |
 The endless Mill Canyon |
 The endless Mill Canyon |
 The endless Mill Canyon |
 The endless Mill Canyon |
 The endless Mill Canyon |
 The endless Mill Canyon |
 Lake Hill |
Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Lake Hill |
 Lake Hill |
 Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Panamint sand dunes |
 Lake Hill from the Sand Dunes |
 The Hill |
 Sand dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Sand dunes |
 Eastern wall of Lake Hill |
 Looking towards Panamint Springs |
 Eastern mountain |
 The hill of Lake Hill |
 The hill of Lake Hill |
 Looking down at Lake Hill |
 At the sand dunes |
 At the sand dunes |
 Eastern wall of Lake Hill |
 At the sand dunes |
 Hunter Mt |
 Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Road bend |
 Mountain to the right/east |
 Old vehicles along Lake Hill Rd |
 Panamint Sand Dunes |
 The road |
 The turn off to Lake Hill Rd is on the other side |
 Lake Hill Rd |
 Old vehicles |
 Old vehicles |
 Lake Hill's hill |
 Eastern wall |
 Lake Hill |
 Highway 190 cutting through Lake Hill |
 Lake Hill looking towards Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Tank in the middle of the desert |
 Hunter Mt from Panamint Springs |
 Lake Hill from above Panamint Springs |
 Lake Hill from a hill to the southeast (the Panamint Sand Dunes are way in the back, a white strip up on the mountain) |
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