{"id":4930,"date":"2012-12-30T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:39:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:39:32","slug":"the-valley-of-death-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/12\/30\/the-valley-of-death-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley of Death, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hiked a couple of miles out into the Badwater salt flats early this morning, sat down in the snow-white crystals of a dried up salt pool, and the desolation was glorious.<\/p>\n

After a good night’s rest the morning featured some sunrise photography, a hike through the Badwater salt flats, and a delicious burger for a hungry boy. Post-burger the itinerary included a visit to the yellow formations of Zabriskie Point, and a drive up to Dante’s View. I thought<\/i> I’d been to this overlook before, but I don’t remember it, and it’s a memorable spot with a five thousand foot sheer drop down to the valley floor and a ridiculously great view of the awesome geology of the surrounding landscape – since that’s three superlatives, odds are that my memory is faulty and this is a spot that has not been on a past trip itinerary.<\/p>\n

After leaving Dante’s View the trail led towards home via the eastern Sierra, with a brief stop to enjoy the Milky Way, and the current stop to try to get a journal entry written before it gets too late (aka 9PM) and my brain starts getting mushier than normal. Tonight will be spent in a real bed as this end-of-year trip sadly comes to its end.<\/p>\n

\"Badwater<\/p>\n

Badwater Basin sunrise. The color on the mountains was also impressive, although you wouldn’t know it from the pictures I took.<\/div>\n

\"Badwater<\/p>\n

Badwater Basin salt flats. See all the people? No? Glorious!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hiked a couple of miles out into the Badwater salt flats early this morning, sat down in the snow-white crystals of a dried up salt pool, and the desolation was glorious. After a good night’s rest the morning featured some sunrise photography, a hike through the Badwater salt flats, and a delicious burger for … Continue reading “The Valley of Death, Part II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,31,30],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-death-valley","tag-man-trip","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}