Me on Telescope Peak at sunset, June 1995. View to the south. This is just about the only place in the Death Valley region that you want to visit in the summer. When the air is clear like this, it's a spectacular bivouac spot. The southern end of Death Valley, 11,000 feet below and 20-30 miles away, is visible behind me (at the edge of the shadowed area). On the right side of the picture, in the middle distance, are Sentinel and Porter peaks. There's a cloud bank visible on the horizon at the right side of the picture - it's roughly over the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains, which separate the Mojave desert from the L.A. basin. The view from Telescope Peak encompasses a lot of real estate!

From macro-scale structures to meso-scale structures: Folded siliceous layers in dolomite marble, Panamint Mountains.

Four-wheeling out of Pleasant Canyon and into Panamint Valley, at the end of a day of field work. (Let us now sing the praises of late '80's Isuzu Troopers)

View to the northwest at dawn, southern Panamint Mountains. The Argus Range is in the middle distance, with the snow-covered High Sierra in the background.. The west end of South Park is in the foreground.