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So if you saw yesterday’s photo looking south along West Side Road, this one was taken five minutes earlier, but looking north rather than south. You can see that I’m standing in bright sunlight yet less than a mile away a band of rain is sweeping across the Panamint Range and more specifically, Galena Canyon. Death Valley records 2.36 inches (60mm) of rain annually. Curiously this rain just hovered over the hills. I had a few drops fall on my […]
So the only previous time I’d been to Death Valley, I stayed to the blacktop. But this time, this time I thought I’d try the dirt road capabilities of my rented Infiniti G35 Coupe. A few miles north of Ashford Millon Route 178 you can turn left onto the West Side Road. Aptly named, this 40-mile dirt road takes you to the west of Badwater Basin. This view is looking south, in the direction from which I have come. The […]
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 […]
Another of my images from the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, about 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas. This is Rainbow Vista. As you travel through the park on Route 169 there’s a turnoff to the north to the Visitor Center. Continuing north, the road passes through some canyons before opening out onto this fantastic scene. The road in this view continues to the north to the hiking trails at Duck Rock and White Domes where it dead-ends. […]
This image is of the memorial to Captain John Clark. Clark was a Civil War veteran who moved to California after the end of the war. He was found dead under his wagon on June 15, 1915, near this spot.
Of course, no visit to the Hoover Dam is complete without an aerial view. Now you can get a view from the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. I don’t know if you’re allowed to stop on the bridge to take photos – probably not. As you can see in the lower left and lower right corners, the bridge was in the early stages of construction when I took this photo. Look at the cars winding down the roads […]
