![]() ![]() This is a 4-mile round-trip, off-trail hike that visits historic sites where men, mostly Chinese laborers, toiled under the desert sun to harvest borax (cottonball borate ore) from the salt flats during the 1880s. Hikers at trailhead on Mustard Canyon Road (view N) Home | Wilderness | Hiking | Death Valley View of slideshow of 20 Death Valley geology photos.Hiking Around Las Vegas, Death Valley National Park, Harmony Salt Flats See more images of Death Valley -then type "Death Valley ". Of course it was warmer on the floor of Death Valley, which is nearly 300 feet below sea level -probably 30☏! But it was silent -and beautiful. It was cold -when I passed through Death Valley junction, the temperature read 18☏. I got up early for this photo -it was New Year's Day, 2008 -and I was staying at SHEAR (Shoshone Education and Research) in Shoshone. I've once seen people kayaking on the very-ephemeral lake! As the water evaporates, it leaves behind salt, which you can see here, broken into large shrinkage polygons. Since there is no outlet, the water tends to accumulate in Death Valley until it evaporates, which typically happens pretty quickly. They actually mark the terminus of a river -the Amargosa River, which starts up near Ash Meadows in neighboring Nevada. The salt flats of Death Valley, called the "salt pan", stretch more than 10 miles in a north-south direction and a good 5 miles across. Death Valley salt flats at sunrise, geology, Death Valley, Marli Millerĭeath Valley Salt Pan at sunrise, January 1, 2008
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