Thursday, November 7, 2019
School on the road…
We had about a 6 hour ride across the state of California to Death Valley National Park.
Death Valley is famous as the hottest place on earth and driest place in North America. The world record highest air temperature of 134°F (57°C) was recorded at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913. Death Valley National Park straddles eastern California and Nevada. It’s known for Titus Canyon, with a ghost town and colorful rocks, and Badwater Basin’s salt flats, North America’s lowest point -282 ft below sea level. Above, Telescope Peak at over 11,000 ft. elevation weaves past pine trees. North of the spiky salt mounds known as the Devil’s Golf Course, rattlesnakes live in Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes. It has several oasis and even a waterfall.
Driving in…
We camped at Furnace Creek. But…it is November and the temperatures are actually quite pleasant in the day and during the night.
The view from our campsite:
We didn’t have much daylight left (sunset is at 4:45pm but since we’re in a valley, the sun actually disappears behind the mountains about 30-45 minutes BEFORE that.) We headed to the closest vista, Zabriskie Point. From WIKI: Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California.
Jeshuah and Jeremiah decided they were heading down in.
Those two tiny dots on the path are them.
We caught sunset and moonrise at the same time.
Death Valley is the largest National Park in the lower 48 states with over 5,000 square miles of land!