Sunrise. I began my morning in El Valle Del Muerte with a cup of tea and a relaxing meditation on my fold up chair. The desert air was still, but the sky indicated that soon the winds would pick up......

When a weekend like President's Day comes up for us 9 to 5 ers, we have to take advantage and get out of town for a quick road trip. Death Valley is not exactly the "quick road trip"...

At Father Crowley Lookout we spied what seemed like the aforementioned park. It contained an alluvial plain and flat valley, complete with sand dunes at the northern end underneath a circle of high...

After a thorough investigation of the dunes, including my foray to the top and down to the bottom of a seventy foot dune and with the sun sinking low on the horizon, and a stiff breeze picking up, we...