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The Devils Marbles is a large field of boulders in the central Australian desert of the Northern Territory. There is an overnight camping area and it is wonderful to experience sunset and sunrise amongst the huge stones. The site is known as Karlu Karlu to the land's Aboriginal traditional owners.
You may remember Devils Tower from "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" . . . if you made it through that movie. When we got there the sun was beaming overhead and after some major photoshop editing I was able to save at least one photo.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
Established as the first National Monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Devils Tower in Northwest Wyoming is a breathtaking igneous rock formation visited by over 400,000 people annually. The monument, believed by Native Americans to be the home of the sacred bear, rises over 5,000 feet above sea level.
Devils Tower National Monument. Devils Tower, Wyoming.
The Devils Marbles is a large field of boulders in the central Australian desert of the Northern Territory. There is an overnight camping area and it is wonderful to experience sunset and sunrise amongst the huge stones. The site is known as Karlu Karlu to the land's Aboriginal traditional owners.
The Devil's Martini. I spent more than a few nights enjoying beverages at their old location several years back; I've never been inside this one yet.
The Devils Punchbowl is located 50 miles east of Los Angeles and 1 mile south of the San Andreas Fault. It is a formation of sandstone that was tilted and weathered. You can read more about it here
William R. Kreutzer, a native of the Sedalia area, and the first U.S. Forest Ranger may have used Devil’s Head summit as a wildfire lookout. He served what was to become the South Platte District of the Pike National Forest between 1898 and 1905. In 1907, the newly created Forest Service planned seven principal lookouts along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains between New Mexico and Wyoming. Devil’s Head was selected to be the location of one of only four lookouts that were eventually established.
Helen Dowe, the first female fire lookout in the U.S., also was stationed at Devil’s Head. She served as a fire lookout there from 1919 to 1921. Dowe was hired because there was a shortage of able-bodied men brought about by World War I. Her position drew national attention, making her a role model for women throughout the country.
The original lookout was constructed in 1919 and was replaced by the current one in 1951. It took 100 men and 71 mules to dismantle the old tower and construct the new one. Devil’s Head Lookout sits on a granite outcrop at the highest point of Rampart Range at an elevation of 9,748 feet. Fires can be easily spotted up to a distance of 75 miles away. This site has been in continuous use since 1912 and is the last full-time Lookout in Colorado. Although the Lookout is only manned during the summer months, it receives several thousand visitors each year.
The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley, located in the Mojave Desert within Death Valley National Park. The park is in eastern California.
It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations.
(From Wikipedia)
I've always wanted to visit this geologic wonder.
As basalt lava erupted from volcanic vents and cooled, sometimes vertical columns formed. These well developed columns resulted from homogeneous lava cooling at a uniform rate. At Devils Postpile the columns have from three to seven sides.
This is also for the gang in the Eastern Sierras Fall Colors group. There's color at Devils Postpile. From here to Rainbow Falls, it is just about to burst forth.