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This last full day of our seven day visit to Death Valley National Park, we enjoyed the first five hours of this eleven hour day soaking in the history and scenic beauty- taking pics along the 5.25ml drive on West Side Road, the 9.7miles on Trail Canyon Road to its end at the historic Broken Pick Millsite-Camp and then further in on the 1.3ml 4WD section of the South Fork of Trail Canyon to end at the remote Morning Glory Camp complex in the Panamint Mountain Range at 4255ft elevation.
At the TH Start on the far south end of the Morning Glory Camp complex is where this triplog begins and ends, our planned afternoon day hike loop to the Morning Glory high Mines located on a high, forested ridge (at 6350ft) at the far end of the south forks rugged narrows with clear views of the thickly-forested slopes of Wildrose Peak (at 9064ft).
Prior to this trip, I had spent a considerable amount of time reviewing topo maps, entering into my GPS reference way points, and reading the recommended hiking book write-up on DVNP for this area hike, Hiking Death Valley by Michel Digonnet. If planning on doing a loop hike to the Morning Glory high Mines, Michel's recommendation was to first hike up the rugged canyon narrows (see my posted pic set#11-26 for ref) to the high mines, then complete this lolly-pop loop by coming back down from the high mines on the old 1.8ml (-1450ft) switch-back mining road (see my posted pic set#10 for ref). Michel did not mention what it might be like taking this beautiful, but strenuous canyon narrows route up in February after recent weeks of DVNP heavy rains with high elevation snow and I did not think much about the additional risks of trying this clockwise loop route with winter snow while I was doing my planning for this trip a month earlier in Arizona.
Due to daylight time constraints with slow going in snow conditions, we were not able to make it to our planned hike destination- the Morning Glory high Mines at 6350ft elevation. Hopefully on a next visit the plan will be to do this complete loop counter-clockwise. (Please note that my HAZ hike description is written to recommend the counter-clockwise loop option or to do this hike as an in and out via the old Morning Glory high mine road..see pic#10).
We had another very rewarding and enjoyable day to end our seven day visit in awesome DVNP  . |
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HAZ hike description "tells the full story" (with posted pic sets, GPS Driving/Hiking Routes and for your convenience- all key way points noted) of this so diverse, historic mining, remote, scenic area to 4WD, document in pics, and hike. I do hope some of you will have an opportunity to visit this special place in time and enjoy all it has to offer.. 
