With our upcoming one week Spring 2012 Death Valley trip fast approaching in early March, I have been working on selecting family friendly destinations. A number of family members and close friends will be joining me for this trip, so most of the destinations will not be long hikes to desolate places in the park. We will mostly be hiking relatively easy canyons and peaks. The two exceptions to this will be my hikes to Middle Hidden Bridge Canyon and Crescent Bridge Canyon. These are longer hikes, especially Middle Hidden Bridge, and I will probably hike these either solo or with just 1 or 2 people. The highlight of our Spring 2012 DV trip will be our Star Wars day. We are going to spend one entire day visiting all 8 of the Star Wars in Death Valley filming locations to get some brand new photos and match up scenes. Upon returning home, I will completely revise the page and use only the newer photos from this trip. (Note: I have already revised some aspects of the page in preparation and included a map.) As a special part of this, all involved in the pictures will be wearing Star Wars costumes for the day. This will surely result in our receiving some strange looks from tourists along the way. Below, you can see a preview picture of me as Anakin Skywalker, testing out my costume in preparation for the trip. One other thing that I should mention, which makes me kind of sad, is that this trip will mark the end of regular week-long trips every Spring and Fall of each year. After this trip, due to circumstances, I will be confined to mostly 2-3 day trips for the foreseeable future.
Spring 2012 destinations under consideration– Middle Hidden Bridge Cyn, Crescent Bridge Cyn, Thimble Peak (and Titus Cyn drive), Marble Main Side Cyn, Eureka Dunes & Eureka Peak, loop of 2 major canyons in between South Smoke Tree Cyn & Sand Cyn in the Owlsheads, Ashford Mine & Cyn, Room Cyn (trip report not allowed), and Ubehebe Crater & BM.














