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| | Hiking | 2.50 Miles | 2 Hrs 50 Mns | | 0.88 mph |
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| partners | | "Echo Canyon" is the longest canyon in the Funeral Mountain Range of Death Valley National Park. The lower canyon is a gorge that starts right away at the mouth and continues with varying degrees of tightness with depth and high walls where the echo is good. There are several windows in this gorge. The most striking one is the "Eye of the Needle", a triangular, 15-foot tall opening pierced 50 feet above the wash in a narrow section of a tight bend in this wash road..see my pic set for details.
At the TH Parking area 9.50 miles in, is the well know "Inyo Mining Camp" which is a cluster of a half dozen wooden houses at the foot of a steep hillside where gold was once mined from 1907. It is one of the most scenic mining camps in the park, and one of the very few large enough to qualify as a ghost town. The main "Inyo Mines" are high on the hillside behind the camp complex and reached by a visible steep, rocky trail..see pic set.
The very interesting "Furnace Mine Complex", this areas site of the last mining effort of 1940-41, is about .5 mile NE of the last high Inyo Mine adit on the far side of the ridge. A fairly good use trail will take you to this site...see my pic set for details. This is an intriguing complex, a repository of obsolete machinery well worth the extra effort of the hike and climb.
Joe does enjoy exploring old mine adits/shafts. Every time I thought I had lost him, all I had to do was walk into the closest mine adit and call his name!..  |
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