Marble Canyon Death Valley

We ended up hiking through marble canyon on july 18 2009.

Marble canyon death valley. End of cottonwood canyon road. It s about 100 yards off the road in the canyon wash. Marble canyon itself is infested with indian petroglyph sites that i am sure you will want to linger at while studying and photographing. Marble canyon is about 85 kilometres north of radium on highway 93.

Marble bath death valley. Before the area became part of death valley national park to validate the erroneous maps in a good natured humorous way a desert explorer research chemist inventor mountaineer. A trip to the marble canyon in kootenay national park ended in tragedy for an alberta couple on sunday after a woman fell into the kootenay river and sadly couldn t be saved by onlookers. On august 16 shortly after 6 p m columbia valley rcmp received a report of a fatal water incident and a water rescue underway at marble canyon in kootenay national park.

Backpacking in death valley national can be challenging but the opportunities for experiencing solitude sweeping vistas dark night skies and awesome geology abound within the three million acres of designated wilderness there are few established trails in the park but hikers can follow canyon bottoms open desert washes alluvial fans and abandoned dirt roads to get around. The bc coroners service has begun an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the woman s death. That is significant because as of the time of this writing that was the hottest day recorded in death valley during 2009 with a temperature of 128f. Day 4 hike from deadhorse springs through marble canyon and back to your car 8 3 miles.

Cottonwood marble junction cottonwood canyon rd end. Nps dan kish. Popular with desert loving backpackers. The night before the hike we drove out big pine road and turned off on saline valley road.