slgwv's photos with the keyword: Saline Valley

Desert grapevines ( Vitis girdiana ) in, well, yes, the desert. These are along Grapevine Canyon (the name was not drawn from a hat!) at the south end of Saline Valley, alongside the road. The area lies within Death Valley National Park, California. Yes, there is a creek along the canyon; hence all the vegetation!

Presumably the California barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus . Off the Saline Valley road on the way into the valley from the north.

Intense thunderstorm in Saline Valley, California. The rain is so heavy the water is actually running off the surface--a so-called "sheet flood." You can tell this sort of rainfall is unusual by the vegetation! Looking southwest to the Inyo Mountains.

Remains of (probably) an old ranch in Saline Valley, California, altho it might have been mining-related. It no doubt had a brief reincarnation as a hippie commune in the 70s--Saline Valley was notorious for such things, for a while. The mountain range beyond is the Inyo Mountains, the southern extension of the Whites. Looking more or less north.

And a couple of stressed-looking creosote bushes. Saline Valley is a downdropped fault-bounded valley (a graben) west of Death Valley. It's now also in Death Valley National Park, and gives a flavor of what Death Valley was like before the tourists and the Park Service infrastructure. In 60+ miles of rough dirt road I passed one other vehicle (a ranger), and saw two cars parked here at the dunes.