Death Valley

I was reading National Geographic's November 2007 issue which had a feature of Death Valley. It had these amazing photos of the valley and had a section that talked about one of the extraordinary things you can find at Death Valley - sailing stones.

Apparently, these "sailing stones" were large rocks (or stones, haha) that are found in a really flat part in Death Valley called the "Racetrack". But it is hard to watch this phenomenon. It is rare to be able to catch them moving. Some of the stones have been marked, in a similar way that animals can be tracked. Their locations are tracked at that point in time (when the stones are first marked) and then after a period of time, the stones are found to be in a different location from where they were marked, leaving a track behind them.

I think it's really cool. I want to go see this one day. Maybe just the tracks.


You can read about and see pictures of Death Valley here: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/national-parks/death-valley-national-park/

You can watch a video that shows the rocks and their trails, and an explanation of what happens here: http://youtu.be/u1hoiHvOeGc