Death Valley: Obligatory Zabriski Point image.
- February 1st, 2010
- Posted in Death Valley NP
- By Edie
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This is your mandatory Manly Beacon In Morning Light image. Instead of going to the overcrowded Zabriski Point Viewing Platform, I took the good advice of QT Luong and walked up a trail just north of the walkway.
If you’re not already reading QT’s blog, “Terra Galleria“, you should. Go comment and tell him Edie sent you.
Mandatory only because it is so spectacular! Try to imagine going to Yosemite Valley without snapping a shot of Half Dome; after at least 70 trips in the last 20 years, I still take HD shots!
Very fine Manly Beacon photograph. When I pulled up to the Zabrisky Point parking lot a few months ago at 6 am, the parking lot already had 12 cars. I walked up to the crowded “viewing platform,” where people were shivering with their tripods set up. I counted seven tripods and several other photographers without tripods, waiting for the sunrise. I didn’t know about the trail you mention, but I did find it and was happy I had bee raised to go the opposite direction of the crowd. The sun never did come out of the clouds much and my Badlands images were mediocre at best, but I found a few great surprises coming down off the ridge from where the other trail had taken me. Interesting you took that same trail.