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| The 28 mile entry to Death Valley via Leadfield and Titus Canyon. |
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| Further down the road. |
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| Sarah hikes up a side trail for a better view. |
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| Sarah hikes up a side trail for a better view. |
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| Still a ways to Leadfield. It's close to the base of the light colored mountain. |
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| Sarah hiking off looking for a mine. You stop the car for a second and she's out running around. |
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| Leadfield! |
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| View from inside a Leadfield building of that mountain that was in the distance two shots previous. |
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| Required rusted metal shot. That yellow stuff is a heavy paper liner. |
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| My shadow and some colored rocks. This does not complete the geology requirement. |
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| We pulled over to look at some petroglyphs and found a Common Chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater (?)). This completes the wildlife requirement. |
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| The Subaru at the entrance to Titus Canyon and (for Brent) a Desert Stingbush (Eucnide urens?). This completes the botanical requirement. |
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| The canyon narrows. |
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| Rock wall about 5 feet from the car, shot from the driver's seat. The yellow is a combination of staining and reflection from the opposite wall. This is a limestone breccia with huge clasts. (If you go here you can see this exact formation with a human being for scale and an explanation of breccias.) Geology requirement complete. |
3 comments:
I can happily confirm the completion of the botany requirement; that shrub is indeed Eucnide urens, in the Loasaceae. At first I thought it was a Mentzelia (called "blazing stars", which is closely related, but your determination is correct. :)
Thanks, anyone want to verify the chuckwalla? I'm pretty sure I've got a lock on the breccia what with the identical road cut photo and all. Ain't the internets amazing?
Perhaps I am not ready to complete the courses, but feel a lot more smarter than when I started!
fwb
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