Furnace Creek to Badwater, Death Valley (return)
We began the day with a buffet breakfast and we made damn sure we got some bang for our buck, with roughly 2 breakfasts each, an early lunch and pocketing some snacks for the days ride. Nice. The atronomy club was out and about again, this time with telescopes set up looking at the sun with all its sun spots and solar flares, very cool. We wait to mid afternoon to ride to Badwater which, at 85 meters below sea level, is the lowest point in the western hemisphere. It's basically an eery set of salt flats in the middle of Death Valley, it's starkly beautiful and bloody hot, so we don't stay too long. In fact Ada is up to her old tricks again and is getting heat stroke symptoms so we call it a day, sort of, and ride back to camp in the blazing heat. On the way we stop at Golden Canyon for a nice short, shaded walk. The night is spent climbing around the rock formations surrounding the camp ground, watching a shooting star or two, and hearing a pack of coyote's howling nearby.
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