 Issue #104 - Back to Death Valley, California A long, flat playa lies hidden at thirty-seven hundred feet in the Cottonwood Mountains, on the western side of Death Valley. When you reach the end of the pavement at the north end of Death Valley, it’s still a sixty-mile roundtrip to the Racetrack, requiring a high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicle. As you follow the dirt road along the west side of the flat playa, you’ll see a few small rocks scattered across the surface. These are the famous “moving rocks.” During rare wet winters in this part of the high desert, the playa surface floods and freezes. Strong winds blowing up from the Saline Valley to the west or down from the north, actually move rocks across the playa surface. The strongest winds blow up from the Saline Valley and cross the southern end of the 2.8-mile long lakebed.
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