Vegas to Death Valley and beyond

Thursday we leave Les Vegas and ride to Death Valley stopping for b/f at Indian Springs. The wind is strong and makes riding more of a challenge. Late morning we start to descend into Death Valley. What we thought was water or salt turns out to be white sand in all of the tree or so valleys we cross. The wind is getting stronger and raising dust as we pass through Stove Pipes a small village near see level. the temps drop from a cool 12 to a high of 37 in the valley.

We then come to the last valley and see the big back drop of the east side of the Sierra Mountain range, with of course snow on the top of the 9-10,000 feet mountains.

It is colder again as we ride south to get around the bottom of the ranges and rise up to find a small town of Kernville. So small we have to split into two motels to get the rooms we require. In the morning we see fishermen trying to catch trout in the fast flowing Kern River.