Hiking in Death Valley by Eric A Hulteen

These are pictures from my 2023 trip to Death Valley. I've gone there each year since 2001 to hike with my friend Chris Schmandt and his family. In that time we've hiked about 880 miles in and around the valley. In the early years I didn't carry a camera with me and so there are few pictures from those years.

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Edited on Thursday 25 May 2023.

Links to all years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004 , 2003 , 2002 , 2001

March 2023

Day 1 -- Saturday 11 March: Peak 5000, Amargosa Range (southeast of Daylight Pass) (map link)

view towards Towne Pass from Stovepipe Wells view to the east from the peak view to the northeast from the peak Eric on the peak

Day 2 -- Sunday 12 March: Revenue Canyon, Argus Range (map link)

looking east at Telescope Peak from the Argus Range Revenue Canyon Eric burros mine switchback trails creosote bush

Day 3 -- Monday 13 March: Overlooking Tucki & Blackwater Washes, Panamint Range (map link)

looking southeast at the southern end of Death Valley remains of a flood on an aluvial fan creosote bush burro geeks hiking (Eric on the right)

Day 4 -- Tuesday 14 March: Moonlight Canyon, Grapevine Range (map link)

dryfall cut into fanglomerate arch/bridge cut into fanglomerate rock wedged in a canyon wall canyon floor Desert Gold flower geeks hiking down the fan (Eric on the left)

Day 5 -- Wednesday 15 March: geoglyphs (valley floor north of Furnace Creek)

east face of the Panamint Range geoglyph storm blowing to the south from the north end of Death Valley storm over northern Death Valley storm blowing into southern Death Valley storm blowing further south into Death Valley rain over the Funeral Mountains Eeric, hiding from the rain under a rock geeks hiking in the rain (Eric on the left

Day 6 -- Thursday 16 March: unnamed peak west of Jubilee Mountain (map link) & Kaleidoscope Canyon (Kaleidoscope map link)

looking northwest towards Shoreline Butte the valley floor showing variations in flora growth Notch-Leaf Phacelia Eric on the peak Brittlebush on the ground and Barrel Cactus growing high on the rock colorful rock colorful rock colorful rock

Day 7 -- Friday 17 March: Panamint Peak 7204, Panamint Range (map link)

view of Rogers Peak from the north view of the central Panamint Range northwest ridge of Panamint Peak snow in March at 6800 feet elevation view of southern Death Valley and Funeral Mountains distant mountains far to the east scraggly trees eastern flanks of the Panamint Range three geeks hiking (Eric on the right)

Day 8 -- Saturday 18 March: Alluvial Fan Canyon, Grapevine Range (fan link) & ridge on Peak 4350, Daylight Pass (ridge link)

the alluvial fan from the bottom another from the bottom of the fan looking back down the fan from the top looking west down at northern Death Valley looking west down at northern Death Valley looking further up the steep canyon (two small geeks hiking there) Eric sitting at the top of a dry-fall looking east from ridge on Peak 4350

Day 9 -- Sunday 19 March: Little Bridge Canyon, East slopes of Tucki (map link)

Little Bridge Canyon fossils Eric in a side-canyon the eponymous 'little bridge' Eric under the 'little bridge' Eric Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes

Day 10 -- Monday 20 March: Greenwater Valley petroglyphs (East of here)

the White Mountains taken from Stovepipe Wells Fremont Phacelia hummingbird pictographs petroglyph mountains petroglyphs petroglyphs petroglyphs petroglyphs