Vasquez Rocks, Southern California is the site of numerous movie and commercial projects… Famously as a location where Star Trek’s Captain Kirk battled the Gorn to save his crew. You can purchase prints of these here.
Rocks
The nicest place to kill yourself I have ever seen… rock climbers… it’s not a matter of if… it’s when…
Hopalong, Tonto, Roy and Trigger, Iron Man, Gene Autry, and hundreds others rode the old west in them thar hills…. Now you just drive along “movie road” and squint a bit to relive the good guys in the white hats days….
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- Lone Pine Peak
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- Mobius Arch
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- Mt. Whitney
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- Illegal Art… allowed to stay for some reason…
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- Mt Whitney through Mobius Arch
After some record rainfall over the winter I though I should get down there to see the flowers and other famous items. Good news… lots of flowers in vast gravel pits to the south of Furnace Creek. Bad news… racetrack rock trails erased for the most part… plus some assholes are stealing the rocks that have been there for hundreds of years making the trails. I need to revisit my 1998 trip with my new film scanner to pick up some more photos I have not been able to post since they are on 4×5 and 21/4 film plus a few 35mm kodachromes. Enjoy. This is a giant place and I don’t think 10 more trips would cover it. Maybe again in late September?
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Looking North toward Stovepipe. Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- From Ubehebee Crater after dark.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Near Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- From Ubehebee Crater after dark.
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- Racetrack Valley
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- North entrance Zebra rock.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- As I was leaving this is Panamint Valley. Sandstorm 50 mph winds, rain, rainbow! All in one.
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- Racetrack
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Running Man
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Racetrack
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mormon Point Flowers
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Racetrack
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- Eureka Valley road looking south from Crankshaft Junction… yes there is a real crankshaft in the road marking the spot.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- There are 2 kinds of Tumbleweed… dead and dying.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Eureka Valley Road. It is a good dirt road. I hit 70mph on it (not recommended).
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- 1916 Baldwin
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Looking North toward Stovepipe. Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- From Ubehebee Crater after dark.
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- 1916 Baldwin
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Racetrack Valley
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
Nothing like a fresh coat of paint… sun… and 25ºF.
It’s about 7:08AM in January. This entry is about the first 120 minutes of light in Yosemite.
Being the lazy bastard my friends know me to be, I kind of like winter because the best photo time of day (sunrise) comes late in the morning… even at 5000 feet elevation.
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- Before the sun hits the first rock. The photographer’s ghetto fills with the hopeful.
Still short of snow but workable. Many dead and burned trees from last summer. It will take decades to recover and water will be required. All kinds of people and vehicles enter through this Portal… El Portal:
From my 3000 plus photos… here are a couple highlights… Bottom line: You have to be out there before the sun comes up and after the sun goes down… and you have to be freezing to get good photos. When all the cell phone photographers leave for dinner then you get serious…
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- from about 4.25 miles away
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- ShipRock from 2 miles
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- Mr. Bill meets ShipRock from more than a mile away.
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- The original White House
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- Spider Rock
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- My personal Marlboro Man.
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- Monument Valley
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- Monument Valley
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- tumwater canyon, stevens pass highway, blewett pass, leavenworth, 10-24-15
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- tumwater canyon, stevens pass highway, blewett pass, leavenworth, 10-24-15
