Category Archives: Death Valley National Park

End of Year Clearance

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

December 31, 2018 Surely I could’ve found time to write more than two blog entries (including this one) in 2018, And like any good non-practicing Catholic, I always feel like I need to beg forgiveness for my absence from Blogland/the … Continue reading →

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A Year of Photos – 2016

Posted on January 15, 2017 by

January 15, 2017 Usually these types of blog entries are done closer to the new year, but time got away from me a bit. I’ve also been busy working on my John Muir Trail book. It took me eleven months … Continue reading →

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A Year Half Full

Posted on June 28, 2016 by

This gallery contains 41 photos.

June 27, 2016 My how time flies when I have no John Muir Trail hike to plan for. In both 2014 and last year, as I tracked the months, days and minutes until I hit the trail, it seemed that … Continue reading →

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Death Valley in Winter – Landscapes, Stars & Flowers

Posted on February 16, 2016 by

This gallery contains 31 photos.

February 2016 It’s astounding that a landscape so forbidding and dangerous in the summer can, in early February, be so dramatically transformed and show its softer side. As a visitor, I greatly appreciated that the high temperatures for the two days … Continue reading →

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The Death Valley Superbloom – A Gallery of Flowers

Posted on February 15, 2016 by

This gallery contains 33 photos.

February 15, 2016 The vaunted Death Valley ‘super bloom’, as some of the rangers have described recently, was as bountiful as advertised. I drove from the Bay Area on Sunday & Monday (2/7 & 2/8) to camp in the valley … Continue reading →

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