Tag:black mountains
Artist’s Palette in Death Valleyis accessible from a one-way road about nine miles north of Badwater. You have to be careful if there is rain in the area because flash floods down the canyons of the Black Mountains have been known to completely trash cars! You can get a decent view from your car but for this view I yomped a few hundred yards from the road. The colors in the rocks are caused by the oxidation of various minerals […]
The ruins of Ashford Mill sit just south of Route 178 at the southern end of Death Valley in California and about 25 miles west of Shoshone. In the background of this shot are the Black Mountains; the road on the right leading back to Shoshone. The mill was built around 1914-15 (different web sites cite different dates) to process gold from the Ashford Mine about 5 miles to the east. The mine and mill had a checkered history and […]
