<OT> I'm back! (trip report w/pictures)

[Tony Alfrey]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 07:33 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > Net Llama! wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Zabrinski Point doesn't look into the valley at all, its in a side
> >> valley. You're thinking of Dante's View, which I did have quite a
> >> few pictures of.
> >
> > No, sorry Llllama, as we say, "been there, done that."
> > See tiff for the map (http://www.sci-experiments.com/misc/Zabriskie
> > Point.tiff).  Zabriskie point near the top of the map
> > near Furnace Creek, looking into DV from the east, and Dante's View
> > near the bottom of the map.  And jpeg
> > (http://www.sci-experiments.com/misc/zabriski-point.jpg) looking
> > into the valley from the east.
>
> I think this is a matter of interpretation.  You can see a tiny bit
> of the valley from Zabrinski Pt, but the view is quite poor.  What
> you actually see is the Panamints on the west side of the valley. 
> Dante's View is where you can actually see the entire valley floor
> clearly.

My point was that it was a very nice, and popular, place to take 
pictures.  It's precise orientation/location was immaterial and 
mentioned only as a reference.  And one could easily say that the 
Panamints on the west and the Funeral Mts on the east are all part of 
the Death Valley National Park.  It's not worth being 
obsessive/compulsive about.  And it's "Zabriskie" Point.
See how being obsessive/compulsive takes all the fun out of it ;-)


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Tony Alfrey
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