slgwv's photos with the keyword: watercourse

Looking upstream. A steep canyon north of Darwin, California that flows ultimately into the north end of Panamint Valley. The road bypasses a waterfall(!) in the middle, where the exposed bedrock has forced the water to the surface. Unfortunately, the best trail to the falls is from below, and I didn't have time to take it. Note the flotsam to the right of center--sometimes a _lot_ of water comes this way!

Showing some of the rock colors that gave it its name. A natural area outside Barstow, California, in the Mojave Desert. I took beginning geologic field mapping here mumblety-mumble years ago...

Which actually _does_ carry water every now and then! Rainbow Basin Natural Area, California, an eroded sedimentary basin in the Mojave Desert north of Barstow. I took beginning geologic field mapping here back in the (gasp) early 70s...