Pictures of Marble Canyon to Race Track, Death Valley

(Copyright © 2014 Piero Scaruffi)
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Highlights


From start to end

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View from highway 190 before Stovepipe Wells


Road to Marble Canyon trailhead (turn left here from highway 190)

The road to Marble Canyon

The road to Marble Canyon

The Marble Canyon parking lot


Marble Canyon parking lot

Hiking towards the canyon

Entering the first narrow

Last views of the valley


View of Death Valley

The first narrow

Natural wall

Cave


The first narrow

Outside the first narrow

Outside the first narrow

Outside the first anrrow


Cottonwood-Marble junction

Turn right to Marble Canyon

Towards the second narrow

Small "race track"


Towards the second narrow

Towards the second narrow


Mountains to the west

Mountains to the west

More narrows

More narrows


More narrows

More narrows

More narrows

More narrows


The fourth narrow

Narrow 4 - End of the road

The fourth narrow

The fourth narrow


The fourth narrow

The fourth narrow

The fourth narrow

The fourth narrow


The fourth narrow

The fourth narrow

The fourth narrow


Tree growing on a wall of mud

Into the narrows

Into the narrows

Into the narrows


Into the narrows

Into the narrows

Into the narrows

Into the narrows


Into the narrows

Into the narrows

Into the narrows

Into the narrows


Into the narrows

Tilted horseshoe

Chockstone

Marble Canyon


Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Zebra cave


Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon


Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon


Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon


Marble Canyon

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs


Towards Dead Horse Canyon

Towards Dead Horse Canyon

Towards Dead Horse Canyon

Towards Dead Horse Canyon


Tarantula

Tarantula

Towards Dead Horse Canyon

Towards Dead Horse Canyon


Dead Horse Canyon

Turn right into Marble Canyon

The sign at that junction


Upper Marble Canyon

Upper Marble Canyon

Suddenly, vegetation

Suddenly, vegetation


Suddenly, vegetation

The only major split - go right

More and more vegetation


Bushwhacking

Giant yucca

Giant yucca


Joshua Trees

Little waterfalls

Little waterfalls

A man-made wall that announces the arrival to Goldbelt


On the road to Goldbelt

On the road to Goldbelt

On the road to Goldbelt

On the road to Goldbelt


Goldbelt ghost town

Goldbelt

Goldbelt

Goldbelt


Goldbelt

Goldbelt

Goldbelt

Goldbelt


Goldbelt

Goldbelt

Goldbelt

In the Quadrangle


In the Quadrangle

In the Quadrangle

In the Quadrangle

In the Quadrangle


Entering Ulida Flat


Ulida Flat

Ulida Flat

Ulida Flat

Ulida Flat


Towards the saddle

Towards the saddle

Towards the saddle

The saddle


Yucca flower

Looking back at Ulida Flat

At the saddle

The other side of the saddle

Another way to climb from Ulida Flat to Race Track: from N36.659320, W117.525874 to N36.68871, W117.55008 (roughly at the level of the Grandstand)


Climbing a little peak to get the first views of Race Track

The sandy canyon from one of the little peaks

The sandy canyon from one of the little peaks


Race Track from the eastern ridge


Down the sandy canyon

The sandy canyon behind me

Down the sandy canyon

Down the sandy canyon


Down the sandy canyon

The sandy canyon behind me

Down the sandy canyon

The sandy canyon


End of the sandy canyon

Out of the gorge

The gorge i came from

Entering the Race Track


Entering the Race Track

Grandstand

Grandstand

Grandstand


Grandstand

Grandstand


Race Track or Playa: the moving stones

Race Track: the moving rocks

Race Track

Race Track


Race Track

Race Track

Race Track

Race Track/ Playa


Race Track/ Playa

Race Track/ Playa

Race Track/ Playa

Ubehebe Peak


Race Track/ Playa

Race Track/ Playa

Race Track/ Playa

Race Track/ Playa

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(Copyright © 2014 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me