Start at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, drive past Travertine Springs and up an alluvial fan noting blooming cactus and other wildflowers. Enter Echo Canyon and see Eye of the Needle eroded out of the hard carbonate rocks. Continue up Echo Canyon and enter the 1906-07 Echo Mining District where gold was found. Photograph the wildflowers and interesting geologic formations.  Stand at the site of the gold boomtown of Schwab that was called “A Townsite With An Assured Future” and was managed by three women who didn’t want whiskey and loose women in town… and apparently no miners. Hike around the Inyo gold mine and photograph buildings, machinery, and the mine. See 500 million year old ripple marks from an ancient ocean floor. Look for petroglyphs. Return to the Visitor’s Center at Furnace Creek.    Bring a spare tire and jack, radios, lunch and water.