Carly Kovacik and myself woke up a few hours before sunrise during early February and trekked deep into the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes. We made it to the tallest sand dune, which we named Mount Sandy, just as the sun rose above the eastern mountains of Death Valley. We took our obligatory sunrise sand dune pictures, and also got some video of a guy sand-boarding down Mount Sandy. After our sand dune adventure we headed south and hiked Gower Gulch to Zabriskie Point. We then did the ridge that traverses across the top of Red Cathedral. It was a fun airy trek above the Badlands, and we hoped we could find a route back down to Golden Canyon, but no such luck. So we backtracked a few miles, descended from Zabriskie, and then meandered through Golden Canyon back to the trailhead. Carly and I ended the day driving 50 miles to the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and then drove back into Death Valley and caught the mountain shadows creeping across the valley at sunset.
YouTube vide is here. Google map location is here (sand dunes), and here (Gower Gulch/Cathedral/Canyon).
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