Sunset on Day 3 brought us to Devil's Golf Course. The top two photos are from there. The rugged ground is formed by salt - 95% pure table salt - crystallizing and expanding. The tiny crystals are very sharp. About 2,000 years ago a saline, thirty-foot-deep lake temporarily covered this part of the Playa. As the lake dried, the dissolved salt precipitated into a layer about four feet thick.
Day 4, the final day of the workshop, took us out to the Sand Dunes for sunrise then on to Mosaic Canyon. The remainder of the photos are from Mosaic Canyon. Tomorrows post will have pictures of the Sand Dunes.
The road to Mosaic Canyon and is just after Stovepipe Wells. It is a three-mile-long road that winds through the twisting canyon. Some places get very narrow and the first 0.7 miles is the most scenic. We only hiked in about the first 0.7 miles. The Canyon consists of polished marble rock and a mosaic of recemented stream gravel.
The Canyon was beautiful and as you walked in, you could almost envision water gushing through the Canyon.
The Canyon was beautiful and as you walked in, you could almost envision water gushing through the Canyon.
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