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		<title>Tuba Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also called tuba, pine nuts have been a fundamental food supply for the inhabitants of this region. During the hotter summer months, people would migrate up into the higher mountain elevations for cooler temperatures, and collect pine nuts from pinyon trees, above the 7,000-foot elevation level. Plentiful pine forests exist in both the Panamint and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=6038&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outlaw Cave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strongly supported rumor has it that a large natural configuration of sizable rocks forms a very useful cave around the Butte Valley environs in the southern reaches of Death Valley National Park. Its size allows a number of people to take shelter inside, warmed during cold winter nights by an old rusty wood-burning stove set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=6170&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Touring in a Pink Jeep</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For folks seeking a convenient and ready-made commercial introduction to Death Valley that is as close as the telephone, Pink Jeep Tours of Las Vegas, Nevada may be an option. Here is what the company has to say about the excursion on their website, pinkjeep.com: “Death Valley comes to life when Pink Jeep Tours shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=6034&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pinyon Pine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a type of pine tree that profusely inhabits mountainous portions of the southwestern United States and Mexico. We will find them in abundant forests of the Panamint and Amargosa Ranges, along with the juniper plant. Pinyons (also spelled as pinon with a Spanish tilde symbol ~ over the ‘n’ that denotes the ‘nya’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=6028&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colossal Musical Instrument</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No words can possibly convey the emotion one feels as the famous pipe organ commences its mesmerizing melody inside Scotty’s Castle. The concert room is impressive in its own right, and then once the stirring notes coat the air, one becomes lost in the passionate tone. The Welte-Mignon theater organ has over 1,000 pipes, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=5931&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death Valley Regional Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Smithsonian Guides to Natural America, Far West Edition, there are over one thousand kinds of flowering plants that make Death Valley National Park their home, including desert holly, mesquite, ferns, lilies, and orchids. When we come visit here in the autumn or spring after significant rains, we may well see millions of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=5929&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Author Needed for DV Pictorial Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was contacted by Stacia Brennerman, the acquisitions editor for Arcadia Publishing. Their publishing house is seeking a qualified person to author a pictorial history book about Death Valley. It would included a couple hundred historical photographs, along with text to explain each photo. Arcadia is a traditional publisher, and the author of this book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=6023&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plant Zones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, Hiking Death Valley, author Michel Digonnet has developed a table of plant zones, specifying major examples of plants that are found at specific elevations. The statistics that follow are taken from that table: The Alkaline Sink Zone occurs on valley floors, with plants like the mesquite, salt grass, and pickleweed. The Creosote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=5926&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays Desert Rats!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a wonderful holiday season all my friends of the outback! Wonder if all the valley residents and employees are whooping it up this nippy winter morn. Merry merry to all &#8230; Steve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=6013&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lowly Dry Lakebed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dry lakebed is also known as a playa, such as The Racetrack Playa, that results usually from a lake that has no outflow point where the water would drain elsewhere. This causes the water to remain on the playa until it evaporates or is absorbed into the Earth. Playas are generally found in arid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oldtrailmaster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087615&amp;post=5924&amp;subd=oldtrailmaster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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