Desert Photos
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The Sonoran Desert is found in southern and western Arizona, southern California, and northern Mexico. The Mojave Desert is in southern California
and southwestern Nevada. The photos below are from a trip I took in March 1998 to several Parks in California and Arizona. See my Links page for sources of more information about these great
places.
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) Death Valley National Park, CA |
) Death Valley National Park, CA |
) Death Valley National Park, CA |
) Death Valley National Park, CA Desert Gold on the bajada on the east side of the valley. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA More Desert Gold on the bajada on the east side of the valley. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater": the lowest place in the Western Hemisphere (-282 feet). Looking west towards Telescope Peak and the Panamint Range. Beyond the small pool in the foreground the playa was covered with several inches of brine -- spring run-off saturated with salt from the playa surface. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater". This is a view looking east from several hundred yards out on the (wet) playa. There's a sign marking "Sea Level" about a third of the way up the slope. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater". Cool salt crystal formations -- the surface on which you walk -- under several inches of saturated brine covering the playa. Kinda sharp on bare feet -- I wore Tevas. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater". More cool salt pan, with rafts of salt crystals floating on the surface of the brine. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater". A close up of the salt crystals. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater". Looking north along the east side of the Valley from out in the brine pool. |
) Death Valley National Park, CA At "Badwater". Looking north from way out in the brine pool -- I was the lowest person in the Western Hemisphere. You can see the outlines of polygons of salt formed when the playa was last dry. |