Description:
The long extent of Death Valley. The white streaks on the valley floor are
salt deposits which were left when the valley was an inland sea. The shot was
taken from little above 5,000 ft. atop Dante's View (whoever came up with these names had a vivid imagination). Almost all of the valley floor in the
picture is below sea level
so the shot is truely from a vertical distance of over 5,000 ft. Unfortunately,
this is one those pictures that didn't do justice to the scenery (partly because
of the inclement weather). If you go to the valley, do not skip Dante's View,
like the ranger told me to do, even though it's a little bit out of the way.
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