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Fortune favors the bold. However, sometimes fools rush in where wise men fear to tread. As adventure riders, it seems we occupy some twilight zone between these two ideas. We try to plan things out as best we can, and simply accept whatever results come. In the vast majority of circumstances, interesting discoveries and rejuvenating experiences are the outcomes of whatever travel recipes we assemble. And sometimes, like a steak slathered in VapoRub, things might look fine from a distance, but turn out to be ideas which are more wrong than one could have imagined.<\/p>\n Owens Valley, and the Eastern Sierra Corridor, is one of those rare gems on earth which contains an almost perplexing diversity of terrain to experience. In the sky, on the ground, and even under the ground, this portion of Central California is an adventurer\u2019s paradise. For terrestrial travelers, the diversity contained here can be explained to a degree with the simple observation that the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney (14,505 foot peak elevation), and the lowest point in all of North America, Badwater Basin (282 feet below sea level), are less than 90 miles from one another, as the crow flies. The valleys crammed between these two extreme points contain all the geographic and historic diversity one would expect from such contrast.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n