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PLS VIEW LARGE ON BLACK... Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is an area on the face of the Black Mountains noted for a variety of rock colors. These colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (iron compounds produce red, pink and yellow, decomposition of tuff-derived mica produces green, and manganese produces purple). Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1,500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration cause the oxidation and other chemical reactions that produce the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_of_interest_in_the_Death_Valley_area PIPs ABOVE

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MY FIRST VIEW.... IT IS NOT SNOW BUT SALT AND THE AIR TEMPERATURE WAS ABOVE THE 50ºC.... 128ºF

...GOOD NIGHT IPERNITY BUDDIES, DO SLEEP WELL... OR WAKE UP HAPPY, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE...

IN MY DRYLAND RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED BEFORE MID-OCTOBER... NATURE STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL. PIPs ABOVE

BEFORE STARTING TO SHOW YOU DEATH VALLEY LET US TAKE A BREAK IN MY DRYLAND. TODAY WE HAD SOME CLOUDS AND A GORGEOUS LIGHT TO END THE DAY... BUT STILL NO RAIN, WE DO NOT EXPECT IT BEFORE MID-OCTOBER. ...AND VEGETATION STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE, I WILL SHOW YOU SOME OF IT TOMORROW. PIP ABOVE

WELCOME TO THE INN CASINO! ROOM WAS FINE BUT FOOD SUCKS!

THIS IS THE POINT WHEN WE START HEARING THUNDER AND HEAVY RAIN DROPS, SO WE RUSHED AWAY BACK TO A SAFER PLACE: PIP ABOVE