Owens Valley Dry Lake Bed

Dust Bowl II
Choke! - Dust Bowl II - Sand and dust, wind storm over the Owens Dry Lake Bed.
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Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun - Sand storm over the Owens Dry Lake Bed darkens the sky.
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Keeler Dunes
Keeler Dunes - Owens Dry Lake Bed
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Spinning Wheel
Spinning Wheel - Keeler Dunes, Owens Dry Lake Bed
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Dust Bowl III
Dust Bowl III - Strangely enough, you can't really tell from these pictures the violence of the sand storm that I subjected myself, and my camera to while photographing these images. Although this storm was relatively mild compared to some. Often these storms leave you so blind that you can only see a few feet in front of you.
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Snake
Snake - A water line from the DWP's Dust Mitigation Program, snakes across the sand dunes of Owens Dry Lake Bed.
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Owens Lake - Cottonwood Charcoal Kiln
Before the first aqueducts were built, Owens Lake was used by the local miners as a super highway. Loaded onto barges, mining supplies, men, and bullion, were sent back and forth across the lake.The Cottonwood Charcoal kilns, seen here, were used to produce the charcoal which in turn powered the smelters of the Cerro Gordo mines. Once the bullion was produced, it was then sent on its way over land to Los Angeles.
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Cottonwood Charcoal Kiln II
Sitting on the western shores of the now dry lake, the Cottonwood Charcoal kilns are among some of the last links to the glory days of the fabulously wealthy Cerro Gordo mines. Used to power the smelters, the wealth produced by the silver and lead bullion came to nearly 20 million dollars in the 1860's . In today's money that would equal over 500 million.
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The Beach
The Beach - Sand and dust wind storm over the Owens Dry Lake Bed.
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Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl - Sand and dust, wind storm over the Owens Dry Lake Bed.
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Dragons Back
Dragons Back - Sand and dust, wind storm over the Owens Dry Lake Bed.
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