Palm Springs Tram: from Chino Canyon/Valley Stn
posted 11 months ago, updated 6 minutes later | 17 comments
we begin at the bottom of the road which goes up into Chino Canyon, at Highway 111 which leads into Palm Springs from the I-10 freeway, hugging the base of these mountains all the way. looking up we see the canyon draped in clouds, snow clouds. it...
Mecca Hills- Salton Sea Feb 3 2011
posted about 1 year ago | 10 comments
there’s nothing so renewing as fresh air and sunshine - and it takes both to bring out the California Diamonds - sunlight sparkling on water. just surfacing out of the funk of being ill with a really bad cold or the ‘flu,’ I ventured southward to ...
CA: Coachella Valley, Indio, Shadow Hills Oasis
posted about 1 year ago, updated 6 minutes later | 14 comments
photos from May 2010
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I had always pictured Indio as dry, rather desolate desert, thinkin...
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I had always pictured Indio as dry, rather desolate desert, thinkin...
art festival in Palm Springs CA 11/28/10
posted about 1 year ago, updated 1 minute later | 8 comments
this fine pooch is wise - he takes time to stop and smell the lantana.
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Nevada: Ash Meadows NWR & Jack Longstreet
posted about 1 year ago, updated 5 minutes later | 8 comments
not being in a mood to write, I will nevertheless try to share a few words about Ash Meadows,...
Gabbs Expedition
posted about 1 year ago | 7 comments
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July 20th, in the middle of summer in the high Nevada desert, off we went to hunt for “Apach...
NV: Coaldale - Ash Springs
posted about 1 year ago | 13 comments
Coaldale NV is one of those ghost towns that sprung up and died all so recently that it doesn...
CA/NV: Amargosa Valley and Marta Becket
posted about 1 year ago, updated 7 minutes later | 6 comments
CA Hwy 127/ NV Hwy 373:
perhaps I’ve chosen Amargosa Valley because I like the sound of th...
NV: rugged desert, rugged pioneers Part 5/5
posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
Sand Springs Pony Express
on the way to Sand Mountain, we stopped and made the short hot dry hike to the 1860 Sand Springs Pony Express station. good half-portions of its walls still exist, built of red and black lava rock. you can still see a fi...
on the way to Sand Mountain, we stopped and made the short hot dry hike to the 1860 Sand Springs Pony Express station. good half-portions of its walls still exist, built of red and black lava rock. you can still see a fi...
NV: rugged desert, rugged pioneers Part 4
posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
Sand Mountain
the rest of that day was mild, compared to being stranded in the 4-Mile Flat mud narrated in Part 3. driving a few miles eastward and out of the salt flat, we came to the road going to Sand Mountain. Sand Mountain is a large, solita...
the rest of that day was mild, compared to being stranded in the 4-Mile Flat mud narrated in Part 3. driving a few miles eastward and out of the salt flat, we came to the road going to Sand Mountain. Sand Mountain is a large, solita...
