Death Valley MJC Trip 2024

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​The 2024 MJC Death Valley Trip was all about water, clouds, wildflowers and fairly miraculous weather. Laura and I returned to one of our favorite places on Earth with birthday-boy, Zephyr and 15 of Garry Hayes' awesome students. Outside of an unscheduled trip to Pahrump, the trip was perfect. I brought my packraft and we were all able to float on a resurgent Lake Manly before news got out and it became the Cool Thing to Do in 2024.

Groupshot from Dante's view overlooking Lake Manly.

Laura floating in a packraft on Lake Manly with happily raised arms.

Zephyr floating in a packraft on Lake Manly.

Small, sediment-laden water droplet at Red Rock Canyon State park fell into a shallow puddle about 8" wide and creates a splash crown.

500-Megapixel High Resolution Photospheres. 

I field-tested some of the capabilities of my new Nodal Ninja MECHA robotic head. Each 360 image is comprised of 31 images taken at 24mm. They were stitched together using PTGui and this rough-draft tour was made using 3D Vista Pro. Please explore the Trona Pinnacles and diamictites from the Kingston Peak formation by dragging the image and be sure to take advantage of the zoom! Gigapixel photospheres are in the works!

Zoomable Panoramas

Here are several hand-held panoramas that you can zoom into for your viewing pleasure.  Lake Manly pano consists of ten photos, and Resting Springs Pass panos contain five or six.