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y2k in east mojave
december 30, 1999 - january 1, 2000

click for larger imagerather then take part in the many plain old new year's eve parties in san francisco, a group of us went south to the mojave desert's east preserve and the kelso dune area.

the experience was truly enormous. we saw weird plant life, junk mine equipment, beach like sand, incredible sunsets and sunrises, and we explored, drank, smoked, and intermittently sweated and froze our asses off.

click on these links to in chronological order (all the images can be clicked on for a larger version):

december 30th:
 windmills, sunsets, and startrails

december 31st:
 sunrise in camp
 morning dune walk
 climbing the dune mountain
 dunes dunes dunes
 sand, tracks, and ripples
 back in camp, telescope views
 junk
 last sunset

january 1st:
 fire, rats, and sparklers
 the morning after
 kelso depot
 abandoned dwellings
 joshua trees, crosses, and the end

 

photographs ©2000 J.Cisek