Second RoadTrip : Death Valley

On the Feb 15, we pack our bags, rent a SUV and made our way to Death Valley. The journey there took about 8 1/2 hours. We set off around 9pm after work on Friday and reached the valley at 5am. We manage to catch the sunrise and took photos of it. We spend 2 days exploring the valley and the scenario is awesome. Although we went during winter, we can feel the heat in the afternoon. I cant imagine the temperature in summer. Brief background of Death Valley:

Death Valley is a valley in the U.S states of California and Nevada, and is the location of the lowest elevation n North America at 282 ft (86m) below sea level. It is one of many places on land which fall below sea level. Temperatures in the Valley can range from up to 54 degree celusius in the day in the summer, to below freezing at night in the winter.

The first roadtrip was to the snowy Tahoe and my second roadtrip is to this desert Death Valley. Haa. how extreme can it be. Remember in Tahoe we had to takeout the tyres to fix the snowchains, this time in Death Valley, we nearly had to change tyres because one of the tyres nearly burst due to the rough terrain when we want to find the HOLE IN THE WALL. WTF. That HOLE IN THE WALL is just two mountains together that look like a hole. Waste our time. Because of that, our tyre nearly burst. At night, we went to a bar which has great ambience. Those old texas lookalike bar with oldies rock music just like those in the cowboy movies. We had pizza and beers.

There are too many happening stuffs and photos to post here so i just a highlight of the trip. The photos below are not in order. Those that have snow were taken when we stopped at Mount Whitney in Lone Pine. Mount Whitney is the highest point in the contiguous United States at elevation 14,505 feet (4,421 meters).It is located at the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties. We just explore the bottom of the mountain and took some photos. Well .. we will climb up the moutain in Spring when the snow is cleared.

We climbed on the way up to catch the sunset. Next to us is cliff.... Freaking balls shake.

View from the top

Look at the ceiling of the bar we went to. Hot afternoon ...

Some abandon old mine


Notice how small we are ? We climbed on the way up. Finally we reached the top .... (From the left: HengFai, Huiling, Edmond, Weiyang, Me, Andy & Zhi Kuang)




Scotty castle in Death Valley

Sunset

Weiyang the Spiderman in Death valley ?

Bad Water Basin

NOT snow but SALT !

Sand Dunes

Mount Whitney (The next place we going to explore...)