March 4, 2023 Death Valley California

 76, sunny with wind late.

We hiked Gnomes Workshop today. Water from the spring running though other worldly landscape. John picking his way through shape, pointy salt formations. Don't want to fall on these, you would be sliced to ribbons. 

The canyon deepens. Big waterfall. 

Formations of salt and dirt. wild alien looking moss in the water, rock salt sandwich, a small spring coming in from the side, salt stalactites, two different formations around big rocks and hoo doos. John above another waterfall. 

Above the canyon looking down. Last time we were here we saw this narrow yellow canyon below. John would not let me go down, said the wall were too steep. This year we found a way down. The canyon was lovely.

Yellow sculpted walls. 

Salt rimmed rocks, pillars of salt, and different salt formations. The stream cutting through wildly shaped hoo doos. 

Looking down one of the waterfalls on the way back. John walking around a waterfall. 

Down in the campground the wind came up and peoples tents were flattened. The tent up on the trailer is the only one that survived. The mountains in the north of the valley were obscured with blowing dust in the sunset.