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James Dale Ritchie was born on November 4, 1976. [1] He grew up in Anchorage's Wonder Park neighborhood and attended East Anchorage High School, where – standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – he was a standout athlete, having played on the 1994 state championship football and basketball teams alongside future professional athletes Trajan Langdon and Mao Tosi. [2]
The Funeral Mountains is a short, arid mountain range in the United States along the California-Nevada border approximately 100 mi (160 km) west of Las Vegas. The mountains are considered a subrange of the Amargosa Range that form the eastern wall of Death Valley. The crest of the range is within Death Valley National Park.
Nekoosa is a city in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. Its name derives from the Ho-Chunk word, "Nįįkuusra", "Nakrusa", or "Nįkusara" which translates to "running water". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The population was 2,580 at the 2010 census .
George Willis Ritchey (1864–1945), American optician, telescope maker and astronomer; Tom Ritchey (born 1956), American bike designer; Other uses. Ritchey (lunar ...
The Owlshead Mountains are to the south across the Amargosa River and its steep descent into Death Valley. Features. The range reaches an elevation of 6,384 feet (1,946 m) above sea level at Funeral Peak. Dante's View and Coffin Peak lie at the northern end of the range. Death Valley Railroad from the Black Mountains to Amargosa Desert
Badwater Basin from Mahogany Flat trail. Hiking Telescope Peak by the normal route involves a 14 miles (23 km) round trip hike. [10] The trail starts in the western part of Death Valley National Park at Mahogany Flat campground. The trail slowly winds itself up to the summit 7 miles (11 km) later at a steady gradient of roughly 8%.
Devils Hole is a geothermal pool within a limestone cavern in the Amargosa Desert in the Amargosa Valley of Nevada, east over the Amargosa Range and Funeral Mountains from Death Valley. It is at an elevation of 730 m (2,400 ft) above sea level [3] and the water is a constant temperature of 33 °C (91 °F). [4]
The 110-mile (180 km) range runs along most of the eastern side of California's Death Valley, separating it from Nevada's Amargosa Desert. The U-shaped Amargosa River flows clockwise around the perimeter of the range, ending 282 feet (86 m) [ 1 ] below sea level in the Badwater Basin .