Sentences with phrase «across death valley»

Yesterday, our friend Tita tried to make us feel cooler by telling us the story of how she and her husband drove across Death Valley in the middle of an afternoon when the temperature gauge read 134 °.

Brandon once raced his bicycle 508 miles across Death Valley in 35 hours...

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Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.

The novice and seasoned geologists from the University of Rochester have gone out with the eye trackers about four times a day over their two - week field trip across California, which took them from San Francisco by the San Andreas Fault through the snowy Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park to the harshest area of the U.S. «Death Valley is a great place, where one can really see active geology firsthand — forces that are shaping the crust of the earth,» says geophysicist John A. Tarduno, another of the Rochester scientists.

Tourists walk across the Badwater Basin which sits 282 feet below sea level, in Death Valley, Calif., on June 30.

Conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter have been capturing fine art photographs of wildflowers across America's Western public lands — from Death Valley to Colorado's San Juan Mountains — for more than 20 years.

To explore the most remote areas of Death Valley, rent a Jeep four - wheel drive from a vendor across the street from the inn.

They spread through Napa Valley, consuming whole towns in Sonoma, Mendocino, and Yuba counties; the latest estimate from Cal Fire, the state's firefighting agency, puts the death toll at 42 across the state.

If these «Perfect Lovers» loved each other across a long - distance, say one atop Mount Whitney and the other in Death Valley, time dilation would cause one lover to age ever so slightly faster.

He had his favorite roadster flown in from home because he wanted to drive across the famous «Death Valley.»

We've taken some shorter trips (Mount Washington, Death Valley, etc.), but when Carson, the endurance athlete, came up with the idea of biking across America, Eric, the planner, figured it was a good excuse for a much bigger adventure.

We need programs that shepherd good ideas across the «valley of death» into market viability.

You probably have already heard about the people who follow directions on Google Maps and end up lost in Death Valley or getting hit by a car as they dutifully walk across a dangerous highway to get to their destination.