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Geologist's Cabin

We stayed in this cabin on the final night of a 5-day off-road journey through Death Valley. The backcountry of the park is scattered with dozens of cabins that were constructed by miners before the area became a national park. If you can find the cabins, you can stay in them. Many are overrun with rodents, but others are quite nice. The 4wd community maintains the cabins, and most have stores of food and tools in case you become stranded. Each cabin has a logbook, and it is interesting to read the stories of the previous visitors over the years.

 

This is a stack of 180 1-minute exposures for a total exposure time of about 3 hours. Striped Butte is the unusual striped mountain on the right.

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Uploaded on January 18, 2015
Taken on January 5, 2015