USA 2002 - Death Valley - The Mountains

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The scenery was quite fantastic, and once the sun had set we walked along a road to the airport, and saw cayotes and kangaroo rats along the way.

ABOVE: The mountains over looking our campsite.

ABOVE & BELOW: Sunset over the desert.

ABOVE & BELOW: During the night, the temperature didn't drop below 37C, so as soon as the sun rose we jumped out of bed and had a quick shower before retreating to the air condioning of the car! We drove out of the valley as quick as we could and from the mountains on the east side of the valley the view was spectacular. The more interesting and even sureal scenery was from Zabriskie Point which overlooked some miniture mountains. Its very had to get a sense of scale from the pictures but the mountains were actually very close to us.

BELOW: This is the view from Dante's Peak which looks out over the salt plains of Death Valley. To give you an idea of scale, there is a semi-circle black line in the bottom part of the picture just below the white salt plains - this is a two lane major road throug the valley!

ABOVE: From Dante's Peak we drove to Death Valley junction, and then north along the straight desert roads to Armargosa road on the outskirts of Nellis Air Force Range and Area 51! From there we travelled east to Las Vegas.

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