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John O'Groats - Start JOGLE / Finish LEJOG
Village in the far north of Scotland named after Jan de Groot, a Dutchman who settled here and built a house with his seven brothers around 1489. It’s the start or finish of the longest distance between two inhabited British points on the mainland. Many people take the challenge to cover the 876 miles (1,410 km) between John O’Groats and Land’s End, located in Cornwall, in the southwest of the United Kingdom.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 14,505 feet.It’s the end point of the Lowest to Highest Route through Death Valley. The peak lies within the John Muir Wilderness and the Sequoia National Park Wilderness and is also the southern terminus of the John Muir Trail.
Lone Pine
Located in the Owens Valley near the Alabama Hills and Mount Whitney, between the eastern peaks of the Sierra Nevada to the west and the Inyo Mountains to the east. In 1913 the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power diverted the Owens River into the Los Angeles aqueduct, causing it to run dry and transforming much of the Owens Valley into a desert. Due to a 1997 lawsuit, LA was required to restore the river in what was the largest river restoration ever undertaken in the US. Starting in 2006, a sixty-two...
Furnace Creek Inn
Pacific Coast Borax Company built the Inn in 1927 partly to provide more business for their Death Valley Railroad. The mining company understood Death Valley’s rustic charms could be easily lost without preservation. National Park status for Death Valley would not only limit damage from mining but also control excessive development (and competing hotels.)
Badwater
The park is located in the Mojave Desert in California that has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve to balance the conservation of nature and cultural heritage with sustainable resource development. Death Valley got its name from pioneers who got lost in the area. After their near-death experience, one of the men in the group nicknamed the area Death Valley. It is the hottest and driest place on Earth, with temperatures soaring above 120-degrees Fahrenheit in summer. Furnace Creek recorded 134 F (56.7 C) on July 10th, 2013. On July 15th,...