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at 1 1 miles. Having descended the east side of the valley with- 

 out mishap, Mesquite Flat and some sand dunes lie ahead, and 

 then begins the climb of the Panamint Ranges. Scotty's Castle 

 at the head of Death Valley is about 30 miles north of Sand 

 Dune Junction. 



It is not attempted to describe the scenery. It has to be 

 seen. In going 22 miles across the Panamint Range to Panamint 

 Valley, Townes Pass (elevation 6,200 feet) and the western 

 boundary of the Park (Death Valley Monument) will be passed. 

 Panamint Valley extends to the south, and north is Saline Val- 

 ley. Low mountains are crossed, the Coso Range extending 

 south and the Inyo Range north. Keeler, on the east shore of 

 the old Owens Lake bed, is 30 miles from the point of crossing 

 of the bottom of Panamint Valley, and 1 3 miles north of Keeler 

 is Lone Pine, at the foot of Mount Whitney. Mount Whitney, 

 14,501 feet, highest point in the United States, and the culmi- 

 nating point of the Sierra Nevada Range, is about 80 miles in 

 an air line from the lowest point in the United States, Bad 

 Water in Death Valley. 



ROUTE C. Los ANGELES, VIA CAHUENGA PASS AND MOJAVE 

 DESERT TO OWENS VALLEY. 218 MILES 



Leave Los Angeles by any route, and drive through Holly- 

 wood to Cahuenga Boulevard, and north through historic 

 Cahuenga Pass. Cahuenga Pass was on the route of travel of 

 the Mission Fathers between Mexico and San Francisco, the 

 Camino Real. The Pass is a notch in the east end of the Santa 

 Monica Range, and afforded a way across the mountains from 

 Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley. The Pass is a 

 notch across the summit of the mountain range formed by two 

 streams, one of which flowed south to the Los Angeles Basin and 

 the ocean and the other into the San Fernando Valley. Each 

 stream started high on the mountains and each cut its channel 

 into the soft friable rocks, and pushed its head back till the 

 two met at the summit. The down-cutting of the streams 



