Pictures from the 2017 Excursion
Exploring the Gower Gulch diversion in Death Valley
Looking up at sea level in Badwater Basin
Standing on the edge of Ubehebe Crater
Sela explaining groundwater issues in the Mojave
Sitting on the 1872 Lone Pine fault scarp
We love the Alabama Hills!
Lyman running down the Kelso Sand Dunes
We observed N-S fractures resulting from differential weathering, as well as a thin pavement structure covered in rock varnish.
The large creosote bush and the small white bursage are the co-dominant shrubs of the Mojave desert.
We visited the parabolic troughs of HELIOS and the thermal towers of Ivanpah.
The only remaining structures at this Patton camp at Iron Mountain are the chapel wall and walkway pavings.
Examining old mining equipment and an open mining shaft in the Nipton hills.