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The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park
By T. Scott Bryan and Betty Tucker-Bryan
Our Price: $22.95
Our Item Code: deathvalley
Postage Code: book2
378 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 6 x 9 inches
University Press of Colorado
Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-87081-409-5
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 7/19/97
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Features: Table of Contents, Index, Color Photos, Maps
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
A truely comprehensive guide to one of the hottest places around. The
guide has all the usual stuff, with campground and accomodation info,
but it also covers the sights quite well. If you've never been to Death
Valley, you may think it's a pretty dangerous place and you need a
4wd to safely see it. Not true at all. You can spend many days
seeing all the spots that are easily accesible with a little rental
econocar. Of course, if you have a 4wd there are even more options.
Most people are quite surprised on their first visit, as the place
usually doesn't match their preconceived notions. Of course if you
really want fun, drop by in July or August and watch the hordes of
German tourists melting in the sun.
-- tm
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Information from the Publisher |
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Death Valley Temperature and Rainfall Records (at Furnace Creek)
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
| Average High Temp |
64.6 |
72.9 |
80.8 |
88.4 |
99.5 |
109.7 |
116.2 |
113.5 |
106.0 |
91.3 |
75.4 |
65.9 |
| Avg Low Temp |
39.3 |
46.2 |
53.9 |
61.6 |
71.4 |
81.6 |
88.5 |
85.5 |
77.8 |
61.9 |
48.4 |
40.3 |
| Record High Temp |
87 |
91 |
101 |
109 |
120 |
128 |
134 |
126 |
120 |
110 |
97 |
86 |
| Record Low Temp |
15 |
27 |
30 |
35 |
42 |
49 |
52 |
65 |
41 |
32 |
24 |
19 |
| Avg Rainfall (inches) |
0.21 |
0.33 |
0.15 |
0.12 |
0.06 |
0.02 |
0.11 |
0.06 |
0.10 |
0.11 |
0.19 |
0.19 |
From the Book Cover
This is the first complete guidebook available for the spectacular and most recent addition to the U.S. park system -- Death Valley National Park. It covers the park's geologic history and also reviews the human history of the valley, from the indians and first western explorers to the prospectors, miners, and present-day visitors. The Explorer's Guide contains short walks, day hikes, backpacking trips, and numerous descriptive road logs that lead explorers into the wilderness backcountry of mines, ghost towns, cactus gradens, incredible scenic vistas, and desert mysteries.
Written by two acknowledged desert naturalists, explorers, and conservationists, The Explorer's Guide is the only book you'll need for an all-encompassing experience in Death Valley National Park.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Superintendent Edwin L. Rothfuss
Acknowledgments
Part I. HUMAN AND GEOLOGICAL HISTORY
- Chapter 1, Geologic History
- Chapter 2. Native American Cultures
- Chapter 3. Explorers, Prospectors, and Miners
- Chapter 4. Tourism and the National Park
- Chapter 5. Plantlife
- Chapter 6. Wildlife
Part II. EXPLORING DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
- Chapter 7. Desert Travel by Vehicle and Foot
Part III. TRIP ROUTE ROAD LOGS
Introduction
- Chapter 8. Southern Death Valley
- Trip Route S-l -- Harry Wade Road
- Trip Route S-2 -- State Highway 127, Shoshone to Harry Wade Road
- Trip Route S-3 -- Ibex Valley Road
- Chapter 9. South-Central Death Valley
- Trip Route SC-1 -- Badwater Road (Furnace Creek to Badwater)
- Trip Route SC-2 -- East Side Road to Jubilee Pass Road (Badwater to Shoshone)
- Trip Route SC-3 -- West Side Road
- Trip Route SC-4 -- State Highway 190, Furnace Creek to Death Valley Junction
- Trip Route SC-5 -- Dante's View Road
- Trip Route SC-6 -- Greenwater Valley Road
- Trip Route SC-7 -- Death Valley Junction to Devil's Hole, plus Highway 127 South
- Trip Route SC-8 -- Amargosa Valley to Lee ghost town
- Chapter 10. North-Central Death Valley
- Trip Route NC-3. -- Highway 190, Furnace Creek to Stove Pipe Wells Village
- Trip Route NC-2 -- Beatty Cutoff Road
- Trip Route NC-3 -- Daylight Pass Road
- Trip Route NC-4 -- Monarch Canyon-Chloride Cliff Roads
- Trip Route NC-5 -- Titus Canyon Road
- Trip Route NC-6 -- Cottonwood Canyon Road
- Trip Route NC-7 -- State Highway 190, Stove Pipe Wells Village to Darwin Road
- Trip Route NC-8 -- Emigrant Canyon Road
- Chapter 11. Northern Death Valley
- Trip Route N-1 -- Scotty's Castle Road
- Trip Route N-2 -- Bonnie Claire Road
- Chapter 12. Panamint Valley Area
- Trip Route PV-1 --· Panamint Valley Road and Trona-Wildrose Road
- Trip Route PV-2 -- Indian Ranch Road
- Trip Route PV-3 -- Wingate Road and Goler Wash Road
- Chapter 13. Northwestern Areas
- Trip Route NW-1 -- Big Pine Road
- Trip Route NW-2 -- Racetrack Valley Road and Hunter Mountain Road
- Trip Route NW-3 -- Saline Valley Road
- Chapter 14. Nevada Triangle
- Trip Route NT-1 -- Strozzi Ranch-Phinney Canyon Road
- Trip Route NT-2 -- Hooligan Mine-McDonald Spring Road
- Trip Route NT-3 -- Currie Well Road
APPENDICES
- A. Borate Minerals and Talc
- B. Ghost Towns
- C. Railroads
- D. Visitor Services and Activities
SUGGESTED READING
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX
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About the Author
The authors met in Death Valley over 20 years ago. This book is the result of
those years and more, wonderful times spent exploring and learning the
secrets of this great desert.
T. Scott Bryan has been a seasonal ranger-naturalist in Yellowstone
National Park and a permanent ranger-naturalist at Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area. He also held National Park Service positions in Glacier
National Park and the Los Angeles Field Office, and as mining geologist in
Death Valley National Monument. He received his Bachelor of Science
degree in geology at San Diego State University and continued his education
at the University of Montana, where he took his Master of Science degree in
1974. He is currently planetarium director and instructor of geology,
astronomy, and physical science at Victor Valley Community College in
Victorville, California. His published books are The Geysers of Yellowstone
and Geysers: What They Are and How They Work. He has also published
several articles on the history and geology of the American West.
Betty Tucker-Bryan was the first woman to solo hike the 140-mile length
of Death Valley. She spearheaded the mapping and hiking of the proposed
border-to-border Desert Trail between Mexico and Canada, and is the
founder of the Death Valley Hikers Association. She has served on the board
of directors of the Desert Protective Council, and as director of the
Roadrunner District of California Garden Clubs. As a free-lance writer, desert
conservationist, and outdoors woman, she has been published in many national
magazines. She contributed to The Mountaineers' book Gorp, Glop & Glue
Stew, and to the Sierra Club book Adventuring in the California Desert.
-- From the Publisher
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