For being a desert, there actually isn’t that much sand in Death Valley. There’s only a couple places where the winds are right to collect enough sand to make sizable dunes, and that’s where we eventually wound up.
Of course, there’s always a downside to there being a bunch of sand in one spot. I got [...]
Tied in to the lore of the valley are the various mining towns that boomed and busted within just a few years. The largest one we visited was called Rhyolite. Their general store currently leaves something to be desired.
I believe that this one was the old jail, viewed between the columns of some ancient building [...]
The next day out we took a break from the canyons and went to the floor of the valley. We wound up on a large plain of shard and spiky bits of pain. We were warned to watch our step and not to fall down, for reasons that became readily apparent.
The reason we were told [...]