Tag:death valley
Badwater. The name says all you need to know about the place, Badwater. According to the GPS on this image, the elevation here is -275.6 feet. That’s 275 feet below sea level! The lowest point in North America is about 10 miles behind my right shoulder, a whole 6.4 feet lower still. Being the lowest point, any water that does fall in this part of the desert runs into Death Valley. The only way out is evaporation and that’s what […]
In it’s heyday, Leadfield had a population of about 300. Its heyday lasted less than a year as it was built on a fraud.
Today’s photo is the view to the North-West from Red Pass on the Titus Canyon Road (though perhaps that should really be the tight-ass canyon road!).
But as I turned onto the Beatty Road I suspected there might be an image looking West as the rays of sunlight crept over Tucki Mountain.
There’s a 4.2 mile trail from the Charcoal Kilns that leads up above Wildrose Canyon to Wildrose Peak, a climb of 2,200 feet.
These Charcoal Kilns are actually in Wildrose Canyon which is on the western side of the Panamint Range that itself forms the western edge of Death Valley proper.
