Ubehebe Crater Death Valley

... more information on Death Valley from someone who has done a similar tour to me. Have a read if you want. http://www.death-valley.us/article1180.html For a picture of Uhebe Crater: ...

... for Dante's Point (I keep wanting to say Peak but that was a Pierce Brosnan movie!).   We took the 190 towards Death Valley Junction - it's a cracking road, must have only been resurfaced recently. We turned off to Dante's View and back onto a ...

... massive volcanic explosion, caused by the violent release of underground steam pressure, left a huge hole in the ground - the Ubehebe Crater. We drove southwards towards Furnace Creek and Badwater.  Furnace Creek is the village where the RV's ...

... medication for my wounds.      After our stop at the visitor center, we had about an hour drive to Ubehebe Crater in a lesser visited area of the park. Ubehebe Crater is a large volcanic crater that was formed about 6,000 years ago ...

... water.  The intense heat flashed the water into steam which expanded until the pressure was released as a tremendous explosion.  Ubehebe crater, the largest of this cluster of volcanoes was formed about 3,000 years. ago.  The cinder field ...

... and early mornings are cold! An early morning saw us set out to explore the northern regions of the park. We started with Ubehebe crater which is just a huge crater caused by past volcanic activity – its recently young at 2000 years old. Next stop ...

Day 6 (Jan 22) Calum and I got up in the morning and drove to the North entrance of Death Valley (scotty’s castle), where we stopped at Ubehebe crater. In the afternoon we a drove 42 km 4x4 road to an area of a dried lake (racetrack) with a cracked ...

... , dunes to the snow capped peaks! I've never seen such a wast piece of land in one sight! Next, we headed north to Ubehebe crater but it was closed, so we stopped at Scotty's Castle. Next we headed back south towards the desert sand dunes nearby ...