More Death Valley Photographs - Golden Canyon

For our first hike, we headed into Golden Canyon, a hike that starts a couple of hundred feet below sea level. Above is the entrance to the canyon, close to the valley floor.



Here are the cliffs above the canyon, old lake-bed ripped up by earthquakes and then eroded by the violent flash floods.

Everywhere you look, just rocks and more rocks - nothing can grow given the aridity and the violent erosion when it finally does rain.


The only signs of life are the old miners' tunnels, horribly dangerous places into which only the foolhardy would venture.

A spectacular, extreme, intimidating place.