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Cue up the all-knowing Greek Chorus as someone has died in Death Valley PERSPECTIVE The two-stage, 40-foot dry fall that’s the first of a series of dry fall one encounters hiking up Willow Creek Canyon in Death Valley.
Death Valley is unforgiving.
It is nothing, however, compared to the armchair quarterbacks who ripped into the Tucson couple that opted to drive 22 miles in an all-wheel drive vehicle down a primitive road to camp and ended up getting two flat tires. The end result was the boyfriend died and the girlfriend was rescued several days later.
The story got my full attention for two reasons: I’ve been to Death Valley 24 times in the last 35 years and I’ve hiked Willow Canyon where the boyfriend met his demise.
People rarely talk about the quiet on northern Nevada’s Thacker Pass, although besides the rolling, sage-filled hills below the Double H and Montana mountains and the empty, so-blue-it-hurts-a-little sky, the quiet demands your attention.
The silence awes Wendelyn Muratore, who lives about 5 miles away from Thacker Pass on an alfalfa farm in Kings River Valley. The land surrounding her home is so quiet that after snow falls she can hear her neighbor’s footsteps crossing his yard a mile a way.
“It’s a little tiny place on the map, but it’s beautiful,” Muratore said. “The solitude. The quiet. The beauty of the desert.” There’s nothing like the smell of sagebrush after a rain.