The crew that shot the excellent Sunchaser Star Trails video packed up and headed to the Eureka Dunes in Death Valley National Park to shoot a new video that’s also very good: Death Valley Dreamlapse. It offers you the Jim Morrison wandering-the-desert feeling without the necessary peyote. The footage includes a UFO, in this case a flying object that they were unable to identify, but it’s not necessarily from outer space. You can see it around 1:30-1:35.

Times Square? Lambeau Field? Nope, it’s Death Valley National Park, followed by Redwood and then Yosemite. The crew at Google Maps looked at search results between May and September to get a sense for what maps Americans were looking up for their vacations. This, of course, doesn’t mean that more people visit Death Valley than [ more... ]

It seems there are some rough roads through Death Valley that have been popping up in GPS units for the past several years, and at least a few people have followed these directions to their deaths. In one sad case in August of 2009, a woman got her Jeep stuck for 6 days after blindly [ more... ]

Todd Carmichael walked 692 miles in ski boots on his way to the South Pole. His skis broke 8 miles in, so he finished out the 700-mile journey on foot. It must have felt pretty good to take those boots off at the end of the day. So when Todd vows that he will cross [ more... ]