Red is Telescope Peak, blue is Furnace Creek:
Now black is Jail Canyon:
And here is the view from atop Telescope Peak, looking north..a 90 degree left will take you to Hall Canyon. Walk about 150 meters north and take a 90 degree left and you will drop you into Jail Canyon:
Bonus photo of some other canyon in Death Valley with Sweetie-pie...we had to scale the side to bypass a dryfall:
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Since we are sharing stories, growing up, we had friends in Sherwood, Oregon, and we'd often go over for holiday festivities. Their youngest and I would go out and down to the hollow, which was marshy in summer and lake in wetter years. Getting there we'd walk a ways through farmland (now houses), which is left of the red area (and sometimes walk across the train trestle in blue that was over the hollow). The red area was wild back then, and to the right, the disused quarry was still in operation (looks like they opened a new pit):
So this one time, we're probably about 13-14, we're stomping our way through the wild with a goal of getting to the quarry for a look because, well, what else are you gonna do in Sherwood at 13-14? So we come to the edge just as it dips into the hollow and wonder how marshy it is will be, how filthy would we get if we try to cross it, and decide to walk south where it narrows a bit.
And right about here (1) or there (2), find, I don't know, a 25x25 foot square patch of pot plants:
I thought it was kind of strange to find, Scott was all, "I'm so coming back here later."
As time progressed, our families did less together, and then I discovered the fun of making my own friends and not just being friends because of family circumstances, so we didn't do much together from then on.
About 10 years later, he ended up in jail for arson, drug possession and some other things.
We met up at a funeral in Portland about 5 years back. Studio guitar guy now.
