This was a most interesting place. It looked like a volcano to me but they call it a crater caused by an underground explosion that blew rocks and dirt a considerable distance.

The colors in the layers of the rock are beautiful, more so than the photos show. It is about 500 feet deep and we could see people that had hiked around the outer rim as well as some that were way down in the crater.

It is a very unusual place to find in a desert, especially one as bit as Death Valley which is huge in its self. But this is an unusual thing, in my opinion, to find in an area such as this.

The rocks change colors as the sun moves across the sky and the shadows make things look quite differently as the day goes on. It takes only a short time to get a completely different photograph of the same area.
It is interesting to watch the sun go down. The atmosphere is so clear that when you are in the direct rays of the sun it is quite warm. In the shade it is quite cool and when the sun goes over the mountain it is almost instantly cool. It only takes a few minutes until it is dark as there is not any clouds to reflect any sunlight, so there is very little twilight time at all. It is then time to put on a jacket as the temperature drops quickly.

The photos are of the Ubehebe Crater which is quite spectacular as well as colorful.