{"id":357,"date":"2010-02-16T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:09:48","slug":"some-death-valley-by-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Some Death Valley by moonlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few images I have from Death Valley this January are some pictures by full moonlight. The first few were taken in Panamint Valley where I stopped on my way to check out the large amount of water that had gathered there from recent rains. Here at about 10:30 or so at night there was not a single sound to be heard except for the occasional car. When a car did come by, either via route 178 or 190 I could hear it approaching from miles and miles away. In fact the sound of a car here at this spot sounded strange as it echoed in the desolate valley around me. When no cars were around I relished the silence as not even a plane could be heard or seen overhead.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The road to Death Valley by moonlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here we see the view from the middle of 190 looking towards Towne Pass.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The west side of Telescope Peak via moonlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Argus<\/a>
Argus Range peaks - probably Maturango Peak and Parkinson Peak via moonlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I picked up a similar view of these peaks on my way out of the park in the afternoon light.<\/p>\n

\"Argus<\/a>
Argus Range peaks - probably Maturango Peak and Parkinson Peak via daylight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking north towards Panamint Dunes and beyond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These next few pictures were taken at Badwater Basin<\/a> from the road. Badwater is the lowest place in North America at 282 feet below sea level. I was scouting to see if I could see water for a return trip in the morning. I was quite tired and did not want to hike out a mile into the basin to see so I took a few captures from the side of the road to see what could be seen. I concluded that there wasn’t much of any water if any (contrary to expectations). Upon looking at the full 21mp pictures however, I can see what might be water in one of the pictures, but alas we never hiked out there to be sure.<\/p>\n

\"Badwater<\/a>
Badwater Basin via moonlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Badwater<\/a>
Badwater Basin and the Panamints via moonlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, a recent trip back into the Death Valley archives yielded this picture, which I like quite a lot and somehow did not choose before. This is from the Mesquite Dunes. The thick haze was from a sandstorm that was raging on the western end of the dunes. Fortunately where we were the wind was much more calm.<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a>
Sunset in a sandstorm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Death Valley in moonlight 1\/2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-valley","category-desert","category-national-park-system","category-night"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}