Death Valley. It's hot. Really hot. The brake pad thickness sensor on the van actually melted before we left. At noon, we were Badwater, California - the lowest point of land in the Western Hemisphere at 282 feet below sea level. It's also the record holder for the hottest temperature recorded anywhere in the Western Hemishpere at 57 degrees Celsius (134 degrees Fahrenheit). Though it wasn't 57 degrees when we were there, it was 37, which was hot enough for me, and far too hot for Meghan. She's pretty sure that she almost melted too.
While it is brutally hot, it was worth the visit (to me at least, maybe not to Meghan), because it has some really cool stuff to see. We were there for half a day, and besides the Badwater salt flats, we got to see the Devil's Golfcourse, another salt flat area with some weird formations, Mosaic Canyon, a narrow water-carved canyon, and the huge sand dunes at Stovepipe Wells. It's just such an interesting a varied landscape. I've included a number of photos at the end of this post. I hope you see the beauty here too.
Just as a side note, we're currently in Bishop, California, just east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, climbing at the Owens River Gorge. We'll try to get a blog post up about that soon too.
Ian
2 comments:
Did you take these pictures or upload them from somewhere - they are fabulous!
Thanks Karen. I took the photos myself :) though these are low resolution copies. Check out the link on the lefthand side for my professional photography page. I'm hoping to get some content from our trip uploaded there soon.
Ian
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