Thursday, March 12, 2009

Death Valley National Park

Dane, his Uncle Darrell, and I went camping to Death Valley National Park over the weekend. This was our first camping trip together! Ya we have been married 3 1/2 years, but everytime we have planned to go camping something comes up like moving to Arizona, moving back to Utah, or finding new jobs, but we finally made it!!! The first three pictures are of a place called Scotty's Castle. It is this huge, very nice house in the middle of nowhere. It was way cool!
This is us freezing on our first camping night! When we got up in the morning, our water has froze and we had to use the stove to melt it so we could have breakfast!This is at Badwater Basin, which is the lowest point in the western hemisphere! It is 282 feet below sea level! We walked out on the salty walkway, and on the way back I got the urge to do some gymnastics! I did backhandspring at the lowest point in America!!!! This is at Ubehebe Crater, i thought the sign was funny! You can't tell from the pic but this crater was so big, I ran around it and it probably took 15 minutes! There is a whole group of these craters around this area.
These are of our little hike in some canyon!