STILL MOVING FROM STOP 2 TO STOP 3 ALONG HIGHWAY 190: MORE COLORFUL ROCKS AND SOME VEGETATION
The previous page left us about halfway out of the valley on CA 190. Now we will make it completely out.
On the Funeral Range side of California Highway 190 there are massive columns of eroded materials, in turn penetrated deeply by caliche veins (fuzzy spots are bug guts on window):
Here we finally begin to level out and pull away from the Greenwater Range's volcanics. The fact that we are not as steep as we were allows some plants to take hold (above as well as the next few photos below):
As we then move towards the pass, vegetation becomes more abundant (sorry about the speed blur):
Some areas are more vegetated than others:
But what a contrast from when we first started up this canyon on CA 190:
But, let's not go back there: now we are ready to come out of Death Valley and into Amargosa Valley, with these last looks at the Greenwater Range and its volcanic rocks:
Now we enter Amargosa Valley (and windshield bugs interfere with pictures straight ahead here, but just had to shoot one of these plant-covered hillsides along the road):
Around the bend, still on CA Highway 190, several landmarks become visible: Eagle Mountain and Franklin Lake Playa (next two photos), and . . .
and Mount Charleston:
We are approaching Death Valley Junction, California, home of Marta Becket's Opera House and Hotel (described elsewhere on this site).
At this buggy and ill focused junction, with Charleston's snows beckoning us (it was a 106 degree (F) day in this valley, warmer below in Death Valley), we turn left.
The next page will take us to Stop 3. And more.
Go to Stop 3: Inyo County well #1
Go to Stop 4: the Hectorite Mine uphill from Stop 3
Go back to Nevares Springs, Stop # 1
Go back to road from Stop 1 to Stop 2
Go back to Stop 2: National Park Service Travertine Wells
Go back to the first page that shows the road from Stop 2 to Stop 3 (California 190)
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