 Heading to Death Valley from L.A. - Santa Ana winds were in force |
 Wind-driven roadway obstacle |
 Dry creek bed near Baker |
 Swirling sand, Highway 127, south of Death Valley |
 $5.10 for a gallon of regular, Shoshone Village |
 We made it |
 Death Valley |
 Ashford Mill ruins |
 Dust in the air made for eerie landscape |
 At Badwater Basin salt flats, lowest elevation in the U.S. |
 Salt crusts, Badwater Basin |
 Donna |
 Salt crusts amid tiny area of water at Badwater Basin |
 Salt crusts amid tiny area of water at Badwater Basin |
 Alan |
 Badwater Basin salt flats |
 Badwater Basin salt flats |
 Sea level is way up there |
 Glad it was about 60 degrees this day, Dec. 1 |
 Artist Drive |
 Artist Drive |
 Artist Drive |
 Artist's Palette area |
 Artist's Palette area |
 Artist's Palette area |
 Artist's Palette area |
 Artist Drive |
 Artist Drive |
 Artist Drive |
 Artist Drive |
 Zabriskie Point area |
 Zabriskie Point area |
 Zabriskie Point area |
 Zabriskie Point area |
 Zabriskie Point area |
 Zabriskie Point area |
 20 Mule Team Canyon |
 20 Mule Team Canyon |
 20 Mule Team Canyon |
 20 Mule Team Canyon |
 20 Mule Team Canyon |
 20 Mule Team Canyon |
 Furnace Creek - one of two tiny villages within the park, which is the size of Connecticut |
 Furnace Creek |
 Furnace Creek Post Office |
 Furnace Creek |
 Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Panamint Sand Dunes |
 Highway 190, heading out of the Panamint Mountains |
 Highway 190, heading out of the Panamint Mountains |
 Highway 190, heading out of the Panamint Mountains |
 Highway 190, just outside of the Park |
 Contrasting terrain - Highway 190, Mt. Whitney area in the background |
 Contrasting terrain - Highway 190, Mt. Whitney area in the background |
 Contrasting terrain - Highway 190, Mt. Whitney area in the background |
 "Keeler Beach" - Keeler, Calif., former resort town by Owens Lake, till Los Angeles Aqueduct siphoned its water |
 No one camps anymore by Owens Lake in Keeler, Calif., now almost a ghost town |
 No one camps anymore by Owens Lake in Keeler, Calif., now almost a ghost town |
 Keeler, Calif., population 66 |
 An old Sky Chief gas station, Keeler |
 Slowly decomposing creatures |
 Highway 395, Mt. Whitney area in the background |