I inched toward the edge of the cliff under cover of darkness. My super-bright, bumper-mounted Diode Dynamics SS5 lights cut multi-mile-long daggers into the abyss over Death Valley. Anyone glancing my direction - from Badwater Basin to Ubehebe Crater and everywhere in between - would be justified in wondering, "What is up there?" It was the perfect edge-of-Chloride Cliff camp. Soon the tent was deployed, and I found myself standing on the edge of the same cliff, shoveling spoonfuls of Wheat Chex into my mouth. Below, tiny white lights followed a consistent route along the valley floor. Furnace Creek and…
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I don't know whether it's an "oh, duh!" moment, or "can you believe it?" situation, but less than two weeks after returning from our Death Valley trip along the Nadeau Trail, we were headed back for more! I was jazzed, and - a little surprisingly to me - so was @mrs.turbodb! This time, the land area we'd cover would be larger than the last, with our plan to see several places that we've meant to visit over the last few years but that we've never gotten to - largely because there's only so much you can see on a given…
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