January 11, 2014 Death Valley

Really full day today. We went to the southern part of the valley.

Stopped at Badwater. It is 282 feet below sea level. It is the lowest place  north and south America. Telescope peak, the peak in the background is over 11,000 feet high. Then we hiked into Willow Canyon. A slot canyon with waterfalls in it.

John tasting the water. The water kind of appears and disappears up the canyon.

Green stuff in the desert is starting to come out. A lizard that was trying to get into my sisters house. Another fall.

Sue in the fall  where we couldn’t go any farther and stopped for lunch. John in front of the same fall.

On the way back out.

These rocks in front of John look like when they get wet they just ooze downhill.  A side canyon in the fanglomerate, which is sedimentary rock formed in the alluvial fans.

The rocks in Willow canyon are crisscrossed with all kinds of colors. Bird feathers, a tribble and a fur bearing nettle.

These dumb coyotes stand in the road so you stop, then come around a beg for food. Pretty pathetic. We stopped in Shoshone and picked up some mail, then went to the hot springs in Tecopa. At the hot spring resort the Gypsy time travelers were performing. She tells stories while he blacksmiths in the back. They also live in this motorhome.

The sun setting on the Amargosa opera house at Death Valley Junction on the way back. We parked the car at the motorhome, walked across the street and had dinner at the Corkscrew saloon at Furnace Creek Ranch, then attended a campfire talk about who lived in the valley in the last 10,000 years in the campground. Long day!