Berny's photos with the keyword: Death Valley

approaching Death Valley on Highway 190

The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley. It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations. scanned slide, Minolta X700

Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 86 m below sea level. The PiP shows an image 10 years later, when we made a 10000 miles roundtrip through the West by Harleys in 1996. scanned slides, Minolta X700

Zabriskie Point is located east of Death Valley in California, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago. The location was named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. Zabriskie Point is also the name of a 1970 movie by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. scanned slides, Minolta X700 ► Poly's view ► Stefan's view

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nevada, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.