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Winter’s Coming to the Eastern Sierra, CA

Winter’s Coming to the Eastern Sierra, CA

Posted on January 5, 2022by D. Craig Young1 Comment on Winter’s Coming to the Eastern Sierra, CA

We were closing out the 2021 field season in Owens Valley, and I had been on a long circuitous road trip working on projects in San Diego, California, visiting with colleagues in Henderson, Nevada, and traversing Death Valley to return to our team working on the fans of the Owens…

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Landscape Photography: Overland in Nevada’s Carson Sink

Landscape Photography: Overland in Nevada’s Carson Sink

Posted on December 20, 2020by D. Craig Young2 Comments on Landscape Photography: Overland in Nevada’s Carson Sink

The Carson Sink is the terminal basin of the Carson River, draining from the Sierra into western Nevada. The sink is also, at times, the terminus of the Humboldt River; in years of high winter precipitation, the combined flows can result in an expansive, shallow lake in the typically barren…

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Patterns and process — Death Valley, Part 2.

Patterns and process — Death Valley, Part 2.

Posted on May 18, 2020by D. Craig YoungLeave a comment on Patterns and process — Death Valley, Part 2.

Our night in the overflow camp was not that bad, and we were up early covering the short distance to the iconic viewshed of Zabriskie Point. We were the first parking-area arrivals – Erno, Jeremy, Quinn, Sandy, and Randy – but were soon followed a good-sized crowd as the developed…

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