Another time in Death Valley

This is another one from the Panamint Dunes - only it was our New Years trip of 2011.

Manly Beacon - the West Profile

Yes, I am a bit obsessed with Manly Beason these days. I'm sure I will get over him soon enough. Maybe after 100 Views of Manly Beacon.

Having happened upon and linked to Ansel Adams view from the west, I thought I needed to post one (or two) of my own. There could be more.

New View of Manly Beacon

THIS is the same Manly Beacon you have seen from Zabriskie Point.

Or have seen in all those pictures made at Zabriskie Point.

The panorama below is the more typical view.  Go ahead, click on it for the larger view...

...then flip between the two views to compare.

Remarkable, isn't it?
Zabriskie Point is east of Manly Beacon.  John and I were very near the foot of the Beacon and to the south when I collected the frames that went into that upper image.

By the way, even Ansel Adams stopped at the Zabriskie Point overlook- see here. He did a little exploring, too; see here for a view from the west.

Atop Dante's View

 

Traveling in Death Valley National Park

Badwater from Dante's View

Traveling in Death Valley National Park

2:12 p.m.  March 2, 2013

Death Valley Dunes

Just do me a favor and click on this pan to get a bigger picture. It's a view of the eastside of Panamint Valley from the Panamint Dunes at the north end.  In the distance, you can see Lake Hill, a volcanic structure sitting in the dry lake bed. We were out there for the last weekend of 2012.
I love that walk. We didn't have the best light on the dunes that weekend but it is a pleasure to be out there looking around anyway. I'll go again in the spring, I think.

When we came away from Panamint Dunes, we headed for Stovepipe Wells for two nights. On Monday morning we went to Mesquite Dunes for first light.  My friend Thom got a terrific shot of the rhythmically undulating dunes. That sent me back to my own collection to see if I had anything to compare and I found I could work up this image. Thom's is way better.
You can see a few more shots in my Picasa collection.

New Year's Morning - Zabriskie Peak

Happy New Year

I can watch this two minute video again and again, following the changing light, the marching clouds, the shuffiling crowd.  If you look very closely, you will see hikers on the trail moving away from Zabriskie Point and then to the left and in the distance on a crest of the trail. They are heading for the Golden Canyon trailhead.   

That was a great spot to catch the first light of 2013.