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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. […]
So yesterday I posted a wide angle (17mm) shot of the Bowl of Fireand today I’m posting a detail. If you look at yesterday’s shot there are two outcrops of the red Aztec sandstone, one on either side of the frame. This is a detail from the right hand outcrop. Taken two minutes after yesterday’s shot, this was taken with an earlier version of the Canon 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III USM (B&H). Again, the exif data on this show shows the […]
This is a wide angle view of the Bowl of Fire. As the crow flies, it’s about 30 miles east of Las Vegas to the north side of Northshore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area. While the work ‘fire’ might lead some to think it’s volcanic in origin, the red rocks are actually a sandstone that contrasts with the surrounding gray limestones. There are a number of trails that take you right up to the rocks where a […]
This image was taken looking east along North Shore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. There are some spectacular desert vistas along this road.
