Death Valley with MJC Geology - 2025 Edition

Photo Album

Group shot of students on Dante's View overlooking Death Valley salt flats and across to snow-topped Telescope Peak.

Laura, Zephyr and myself all had a great time tagging along with Garry Hayes' MJC Geology field trip as backup drivers and support for the fifteen awesome students on his annual trip to Death Valley. Normally starting on a Thursday evening, this trip instead started on Friday morning due to a terribly wet storm that drenched the valley on Thursday. Garry didn't want the students' trip to start off wet and miserable so we he cut out Shark Tooth Hill and was able to make it through the rest of our normal Friday stops and get into camp a mere four minutes later than the previous year. Friday was a bit blustery, but the winds calmed to a breeze by the evening and the rest of the trip saw partly overcast skies with high temps in the 60's to low 70's and great star viewing most nights. Enjoy the un annotated photo albums and look for previous years to find teh annotated geology.

Pink, peach and blue sunset on high cirrus clouds taken near Badwater.

Shoshone pupfish hides in the aquatic plants .

Common side-blotched lizard.

3D Scans from iPhone lidar.

1.8 Billion Year Old Metamorphic Rock - Death V… by phaneritic on Sketchfab

Breccia Boulder in Alluvial Fan of Amargosa Cha… by phaneritic on Sketchfab

Ephemeral Desert Stream Channel by phaneritic on Sketchfab