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woody with a view
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very nice! that is one lucky boy....
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Bwana_John
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The primo playground at Death Valley is of course the Stovepipe Wells dunes
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Extra credit if you can name all 4 substantial dune fields in DVNP.
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Love the photos. Melts my heart because Death Valley is my favorite place to go anytime of the year. Yes Aug 21/2000 - Furnace creek 126F at 7PM. At
5:30 am it was still 93F. OOOOhhhhh but the winters, just like you show - are aaaammmazing.
Thanks for sharing.
Sometimes you really do question; why you are and where you are.
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bwana_John
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The primo playground at Death Valley is of course the Stovepipe Wells dunes
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Eureka, Stovepipe, Panamint, and ... ?
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stimbo
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Mesquite Dunes.
Nice post Igor.
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Ken Bondy
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Great post Igor!!!!
carpe diem!
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Bwana_John
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
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The primo playground at Death Valley is of course the Stovepipe Wells dunes
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Extra credit if you can name all 4 substantial dune fields in DVNP. |
Eureka, Stovepipe, Panamint, and ... ? |
I forgot about Panamint!!!
So there are 5
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
The primo playground at Death Valley is of course the Stovepipe Wells dunes.
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Oh Igor - What a marvelous depiction of Death Valley combined with the limitless energy and enthusiasm of youth! Your boy looks to be having the time
of his life.
Obviously I've grown old. I know the distance out to those dunes and it takes my breath away just to get there. To consider fun a crawl to
the top followed by one hella slide that fills my unders with sand... no longer my cuppa.  Perhaps because of that I enjoyed this series of photos all the more.
Thanks for taking the time to put it together for us.
nena
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stimbo
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The dunes at Stovepipe Wells and the Mesquite dunes are one and the same.... However, there are also the Ibex Dunes and then another set of dunes in
Eureka Valley (NW of the obvious set of dunes). Fun places to explore when the temps cool down.
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
Obviously I've grown old. I know the distance out to those dunes and it takes my breath away just to get there. To consider fun a crawl to
the top followed by one hella slide that fills my unders with sand... no longer my cuppa. Perhaps because of that I enjoyed this series of photos all the more.
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Yes, it does create a mess for the parents. Fortunately there are warm showers right across the hwy from the mesquite dunes ($2). So it's into the car
and right to the showers. Of course the clothes have to be cleared of sand. But it's not like the first time, when we had sand in our sleeping bags
for days.
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Skipjack Joe
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How it Was
Here's an image I came across today that is probably has very little appeal to most of you. It has very little artistic merit.
Yet I find myself being overwhelmed with emotions by it. I can't see their faces but it was all there. Even their body posture is as it had been. A
timeless image.
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Skipjack Joe
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Hiking the dunes at evening light was a great way to end the day.
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La Gorda
... and we never forgot to pay homage to the gorda on the way to Death Valley.
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Bwana_John
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The dunes at Stovepipe Wells and the Mesquite dunes are one and the same.... However, there are also the Ibex Dunes and then another set of dunes in
Eureka Valley (NW of the obvious set of dunes). Fun places to explore when the temps cool down.
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Im not counting the dunes in Eureka Valley at the bottom of Marble Canyon as a substantial dune field.
So that gives us Stovepipe Wells, Eureka, Panamint, and Ibex.
One more substancial dune field in DVNP (hint, it is not in the the valley nor was it in the park before the big expansion in '93)
[Edited on 6-3-2012 by Bwana_John]
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Skipjack Joe
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The only dunes I could find were the Dumont Dunes adjoining the park. Is that what you're referring to?
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Bwana_John
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The only dunes I could find were the Dumont Dunes adjoining the park. Is that what you're referring to?
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Nope
Lets see.... so far most of the large basins of interior drainage in the Park (i.e Death Valley, Panimint Valley, Eureka Valley) have had dune
fields.
Is there another major basin of interior drainage in the National Park?
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Paula
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I wish there was a like button for posts here like there is on facebook. I could just say thank you, or gorgeous, or what fun... but the fact is I
just really LIKE these pictures.
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Thanks for the memories. That was always a favorite destination with my boys when there wasn't enough time for a Baja trip. In a box or album
somewhere are near duplicates of those pictures.
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Oh to be young again, so much fun. Thanks
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bwana_John
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The only dunes I could find were the Dumont Dunes adjoining the park. Is that what you're referring to?
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Lets see.... so far most of the large basins of interior drainage in the Park (i.e Death Valley, Panimint Valley, Eureka Valley) have had dune
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Saline Valley, but I don't think it has any "dunes" except very very small one's on the eastern and southern sides of the dry lake bed.
Barry
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