Thursday 3/29/2012
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| I left you in my last blog going down Hwy.190 to |
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| Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. |
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| We got parked and had lunch in the car, then headed up the path hill after reading the information board. |
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| View from the top of the hill. |
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| A look out toward the valley. |
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| In a close up view, you can see one of the trails with some people walking on it. There are 3 to 4 trails that leave this point. |
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| As you can see it has warmed up since we came down about 4000 feet from Dantes View, by the way we are dressed. |
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| Zabriskie Point is known for it's erosion. |
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| Zabriskie Point was just amazing! |
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| It's a mini Badlands! |
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| One of the path takes you up to the point out on the peach and brown mountain . |
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| It made Joe and I nervous just watching them walk out to the point. That path was not for us! |
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| The trails are from from 1/2 mile to 3 miles long. |
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| Zabriskie Point is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago — long before Death Valley came into existence. |
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| I wanted to go on one of the trails, but Joe said we didn't have time. I had my new hiking shoes on that I bought last summer at LL Beans. But I guess it would not be a good idea since I was breaking them in for the first time. |
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| View of some of the paths, people have walked on. |
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| Looking toward Hwy. 190 and watching a father and two children on one of the paths below. This was my favorite stop in Death Valley |
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