December 27, 2008

Death Valley Christmas



Because Akiko and I weren't spending the holidays with family this year, we decided to spend a couple days in Death Valley. Not very Christmas-like I know, but we did get to see some snow. We were lucky as just a few days before, some of the roads we took had been shut down due to a big storm dumping snow and ice. At the higher elevations around 4,000' it was around 38 degrees F and down in the valley below Sea Level it was at 57 degrees.


On the way there, we made a few stops. this was at Pearsonville.


Living ghost town Keeler.


Just before entering the park.


Some nice earth colors.


The sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells.




Ruins at Borax mining site.

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