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Even here in California you can get the winter-time blahs. The passes are all closed or (this year) its raining again or whatever. By late February I was definitely feeling house-bound here in the Bay Area. A day-ride down to Pinnacles NM and through the Panoche Valley was nice...but not enough!
Then I saw this story in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/death-valley-is-experiencing-a-colorful-superbloom.html?_r=0
A "Super Bloom" in Death Valley!? Sign me up!:laugh2:
Full disclosure...I have lived around deserts long enough to take stories like these with considerable salt. When the journalist follows an amped-up low-angle pic with "Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is now a riot of color" I already knew that most of the color would be coming from the desert rock and not the desert flowers. Still, the weather report looked good and my '09 Wee was ready to go so I took off for a nice 3-day weekend.
Then I saw this story in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/death-valley-is-experiencing-a-colorful-superbloom.html?_r=0
A "Super Bloom" in Death Valley!? Sign me up!:laugh2:
Full disclosure...I have lived around deserts long enough to take stories like these with considerable salt. When the journalist follows an amped-up low-angle pic with "Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is now a riot of color" I already knew that most of the color would be coming from the desert rock and not the desert flowers. Still, the weather report looked good and my '09 Wee was ready to go so I took off for a nice 3-day weekend.