“…the first impression remains a just one. Despite variety, most of the surface of Death Valley is dead … a land of jagged salt pillars, crackling and tortured crusts of mud, sunburnt gravel bars the color of rust, rocks and boulders of metallic blue naked even of lichen.” ~ Edward Abbey
“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” ~ Chuck Thompson
Telescope Peak at dawn, Death Valley National Park, California (2010)Harmony Borax Works, Death Valley National Park, California (2011)Looking south toward Telescope Peak, Death Valley National Park, California (2010)Ghost Rider by Albert Szukalski (1985), Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyolite, Nevada (2011)Harrisburg Flats near Aguereberry Point, Death Valley National Park, California (2011)Charcoal kilns in Wildrose Canyon, Death Valley National Monument, Califronia (2013)Pool at Darwin Falls, west of Death Valley National Park, California (2010)