Winter break in Death Valley 3

After a good nights sleep at Pahrump in Nevada, we decided to return to the Valley for another day of hiking.
Today we planned for a round trip hike starting at Zabriskie Point. Stopping here even if you do not do the hike is worth it, because you have a wonderful view onto the Badlands.
There we took off and started on the Badlands loop, which took us to the intersection with the Gower Gulch Trail and Golden Canyon Trail. We decided on following the Gower Gulch Trail down into the valley and hike the Golden Canyon trail back up. Along the Gower Gulch trail you can see some old mine entrances and luckily they were closed - other wise my gold rush boys would have vanished into the mountain. The hike took us 3h - it can be done in less than that, but we took our time exploring the mine entrances, collecting stones or just climb around and enjoy the view. After that we drove to the sand dunes again - a special request from P and K. They had so much fun yesterday that they wanted to hang out some more. So we went to the Sand dunes again and enjoyed watching the sun go down behind the mountains and drove back to Ridgecrest for the night.

View from Zabriskie Point.

View along the way 1.

Trail in dried up flash flood river bed.

The boys.

Mountains.

The boys on the trail 1.

Weathered waring sign.

Dried up.

Wait - what is there?

A mine entrance.

The entrance.

And yet another mine.

Water break 1.

Of the beaten path.

Water break 2.

The boys on the trail 2.

The boys on the trail 3.

More Rocks and mountains.

The boys on the trail 4.

K pointing to Zabriskie point - it's not far, is it?

View along the way 2.

View along the way 3.