Naturally, we love Death Valley. We love its wonderful beauty with spectacular sunsets, colorful and exotic rocks & canyons, those amazing dunes, the unthinkable adaptability of desert basin wildlife, and that mysterious and vibrating silence.
In Death Valley you can see the earth’s original naked and bare surface, in its pure and elementary shapes. It is a place from where life has moved.
Death Valley was named by gold seekers who tried to cross this desolate region in 1849 on their way to the California gold fields. They realized soon that they have to battle severely if they want something. Many of them had a long and agonizing death from dehydration in the desert.
Death Valley is a land of extremes. It is the hottest, driest, lowest. Temperatures in the Valley can range from up to 130F (54 C) in the day in the summer, to below freezing at night in the winter. This is among the widest temperature spreads in North America. But why is that?
‘The temperature of a certain area depends upon a set of conditions that are called climate controls. These controls include latitude, altitude, topography, distance from large bodies of...