On an early March day, we took a quick trip with friends to Death Valley. A great time was had by all.
We drove up the back road, east of HWY 350, through Trona, now that is an alien landscape if I ever saw one. By lunch time we stopped here. Had a very good lunch.
Drove up to Father Crawley point. The Airforce used to do a lot of test fights here, since a bad accident 5 years ago – not so much. Although a day later we did see a stealth fighter fly silently over Death Valley. Looking down into the canyon, these are the kinds of colorful bands of minerals we saw.
weather couldn’t have been better, friends even more so.
By the iconic sign. two years ago Joel and I were here, since then hurricane Hillary (not the Clinton one) came through and flooded the valley. so now it is a lot harder to see the iconic tetra and hexagon shapes of the salt oozing through the dry land.
Devils golf course looked the same.
We took a jeep tour, saw some of the standard sights and also some off road ones
That is a lot of table salt, yes, It is exactly that. Table salt. Like so much of the earth, great changes happened over millions of years – including the fact that used to be under the ocean.
Standing on very hard compacted salt.
Into Artist Palatte canyon, the geology is fascinating. These are just different formations.
The camera doesn’t do the colors justice.
the colors, the textures, the deep blue sky!
One of the many sites used in the original Star Wars.
Same canyon, looking in the other direction.
One of the things that make this park so unique is the incredible contrasts.
gorgeous sunsets!
Wonderful dinners. We celebrated both Michael and my birthday, and boy did we celebrate!
Leah