I have to say that I really enjoy your ride reports and the stunning scenery around your area. I have never ridden it but hiked and toured around that area and the south-west a few times twenty years ago with an old school friend before I returned to cycling after retiring. Hwy395 from Death Valley to Yosemite was beautiful and we had a great time hiking in the hills above Lone Pine.
At the moment the winter weather in the UK is dull and depressing, and I am a bit down just starting my treatment for prostate cancer and not riding for the past few weeks, and your pics and reports brighten things up a bit in anticipation of the riding I shall get back to in the spring and summer around Wales and hopefully Majorca.
This is a pic taken on one of my favourite rides in the Brecon Beacons at the end of the summer. Not as big as the hills around 395 but enough for me.