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Lunch in the Juniper Forest

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After a fun time at Crack in the Ground, we went down the road a bit to have lunch.

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A couple cans of beer and some hot dogs made for a delicious lunch.

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While poking around our lunch spot, Heather and I found a garbage bag full of old VHS movies and a remote control for a VCR.  It appeared to us that this might have been where someone went after robbing a house in the area.  Why someone would steal VHS tapes and then dump them out in the desert is beyond me.

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A juniper standing sentinel.

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Thunderstorms in the distance.

IMG_7674Back on the road toward Christmas Valley.

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Crack in the Ground

 

 

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After a rather eventful adventure down what turned out to be a farm access road with some extremely deep and large mud puddles, we arrived at Crack in the Ground.

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Crack in the Ground is a strange geologic formation where a layer of basalt cracked to form a fissure that runs between 20 and 100 feet deep.  If a person stands more than about 50 feet away from the fissure, the person would never know that the crack even exists.

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We descended into the crack.  At several points along its length, the sand and dirt has intruded and enough basalt has collapsed to allow entrance.

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Big columns of basalt have wedged into interesting positions in the fissure.  This place reminds me a great deal of Þingvellir and Miðlína in Iceland.


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Climbing through jumbled basalt.


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Heather and me at Crack in the Ground with Zach behind us.


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A panorama with Crack in the Ground in the foreground.


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Interesting patterns in the basalt.

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The bottom of the crack.

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Daylight far above.


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Christmas Valley Sand Dunes

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The Christmas Valley Sand Dunes are a very interesting place.  Vera hiked to the top of one of the dunes.

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Coming down the dune.


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Cracked earth in between the sand dunes.

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Heather walking across the sand.

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ATVs riding in the OHV area.

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Vera and Zach in the dunes with rain falling from a storm on the distant mountains.

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The expedition vehicle next to the dunes.

STA_7608-STJ_7617Sand dunes as far as the eye can see.

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