Camping on the edge

[campmaster-k]

I was there 2 yrs ago in July. 121 degrees.

[Shadow Catcher]

Death Valley is unique with the tallest mountain in the contiguous US at 14,505 and the lowest at Bad Water at 282 feet below sea level. Geologically it is unique with rock formations that are Pre Cambrian to present. You can see the successive shores as it evaporated of Lake Manly "pluvial, former freshwater, endorheic, rift lake that filled the Death Valley basin of Inyo County, California through the Holocene before the area's climate changed to desert. Following its isolation from the Colorado River system, Lake Manly receded by evaporation with Badwater Basin, Middle Basin, and Cotton Ball Marsh occupying the space left behind. At its greatest extent Lake Manly was roughly 80 mi long and 600 ft deep.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manly)
We camped in the winter and encountered snow in the Panamint Mountains. We also got stuck in sand and had to hike out and I kid you not were picked up by a couple of prospectors (they were professors at one of the colleges, but prospecting). I have a picture of one of the burrows with our Baja Bug on our third trip.



I loved that Old Bug it had the bus reduction gears and stock RPM with 32" tires and it would climb walls. But it broke alot!

[Wolfgang92025]

Death Valley is a very interesting place.
We camped there in July of 2011.
Great trip.
See link for pictures and description.

http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=45078&p=846645

[mkitchen]

Thanks Scooter and Wolfgang
Between the video and Wolfgang's pics, it is going to be hard for folks to say that DV is just a bland piece of desert. I was there for four nights and we still did not scratch the surface. My next trip with be in the northern part so I can take in the racetrack and the crater and the dunes west of there. I doubt that I will ever see it all or get tired of it.
Mikey

[Roo Dog]

Interesting bit of country.

It was always an ambition of mine to have a snoop around the USofA, especially the more remote places. There is certainly a lot to see and of a variety we do not get in Oz. Not much interested in cities.
Sadly my visits were always of short duration and associated with work.
Maybe some day.

Take it easy.

RD

[Redgloves]

Death Valley is so wonderful. I was there January 2011. Nice temps. Amazing to feel the salt on my lips constantly. Different odors at the old Borax mine.
Desert landscapes at night bitch black compared to Minnesota.

Returning is one of the items on the bucket list.

Jean