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Desert dust storm

It wasn’t what I expected or hoped for. I wanted five days of sunshine and renewal in the desert. Instead, I descended to Death Valley in a storm. The wind whipped my tent fly and pushed fine desert...

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Crystal Power

At a distance Badwater Basin is a frothy ocean – a great white shining expanse. As you get closer, it starts to resemble snow. When you finally start walking on the flats, it is more like crunchy...

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Panamint Sunrise

“And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn,” he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. “And their merging...

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Devil’s Golf Course

Large halite salt crystal formations in Devil’s Golf Course are just the tip of salt/gravel beds that extend up to 9,000 feet below the surface. Unlike the valley floor at Badwater, this place remains...

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Barefooted

Rumi -Ali Alizadeh I escaped from the city barefooted. I escaped from the fires naked, except for the bag of ancient books slung over my back. I ran into the desert. The horsemen chased. Their torches...

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Flower Porn

If you go to Death Valley looking for flowers, you’ll generally be disappointed. (The fabled “super blooms” only happen in rare years when rainfall is above average.) There were almost no flowers this...

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80 years young

Drive to the most remote part of Death Valley and you’ll be find an impressive Joshua Tree forest. (Not the best photo in the collection, I admit, but these are too cool not to post.) Technically...

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Teakettle Junction

Anyone who’s been here will understand the relief I felt when I saw this sign. Only 6 more miles (30 minutes or so) of bone-shattering dirt road to go to get to the Racetrack where rocks move on their...

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Kololo Peaks

I lifted a foot to take a step just as a gust of wind passed. The rock below my other foot rocked, and I teetered precariously on my crampons, wishing I was on snow, not some loose piece of Cascade...

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Red Mountain (no, not that one)

Sometimes the hardest part of a trip is picking the destination. It’s especially hard, when your planned two-day trip is a no-go because of a shitty weather forecast. (Who wants to camp on the snow in...

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