Tenaya Canyon and part of Yosemite Valley as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Tenaya Creek likely started to scour this granite canyon below Half Dome about 5 to 10 million years ago ...
Repeated bouts of heavy rain have filled Badwater Basin in Death Valley, the driest spot in North America. The lake first formed in August after Hurricane Hilary pounded the California desert, and ...
Historic rainstorms that lashed California recently have kept a rare phenomenon around — a lake at famed hot spot Death Valley. The lake formed at Badwater Basin in August, on what normally is a salt ...