Saline Valley, a closed depression west of Death Valley. The snow-covered range in the background of this northwest-facing image is the Sierra Nevada, culminating in Mt. Whitney (14,494').
The Racetrack, a mysterious playa (dry lake) across which large stones
move during high winds. The stones are shed from the hill that meets the
playa on the upper right (south) edge, and travel toward the dark island
(The Grandstand) in the lower left. Check here
for some closeup views of The Racetrack.
Sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells. This is where the spaceship crashed in Star Wars.
Furnace Creek Ranch (the dark square on left of photo) sits on a big alluvial fan. The airstrip is just this side of the ranch.
The intricate interplay of salt flat and sediment along the margin of the Devil's Golf Course, south of Furnace Creek.
Several small alluvial fans (named Agnes, Becky, Clementine, Dotty, and Ernestine by Bob Sharp) along the western faulted escarpment of the Black Mountains. Here, coarse alluvial boulders are dumped directly onto the salt pan.
An unusual view of Zabriskie Point (Manly Beacon, left of center), looking east.
A close aerial view of the Cerro Gordo Mine area, high in the southern Inyo Range.
The beautiful Papoose Flat area, in the northern Inyo Range, viewed looking northwest.
Looking west from an altitude of about 10,000' at the Palisade
Crest of the Sierra Nevada. The low dark hill in the center of the photo
is Crater Mountain, a young volcano south of Big Pine that is cut by several
fault scarps from the 1872 earthquake.