The
Panamint Great White Shark swims right under 11,049 foot high
Telescope Peak.
Here's
an older photo in my collection that I came across with another
view of the shark.
Death valley national park panamint range geology shark
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RECONNOITERING
IN THE EASTERN SIERRA NEVADA & GREAT BASIN |
The
Death Valley Journal:
The Panamint Shark
The Panamint Range. Lofty, dramatic, dynamic, stark, shark. Shark? Yes, a shark! And he’s a great white shark also!
Look closely and there is a shark on the Panamint Range. North of Surprise Canyon and below Telescope Peak, a white shark is perpetually swimming. Not an ocean swimming shark, mind you, but one that is set in stone. And he’s a massive critter at that! Those versed in the study of rocks and minerals likely have a name for this type of soil composition, I certainly don’t. But a large region of white soil set amid the typical blues of the Panamint Range creates a prominent outline of a large Great White Shark.
Drive north through Panamint Valley on the Trona-Wildrose Road north of Ballarat Road and scan the lower slopes of the Panamint Range. The farther north you go, the more pronounced the shark becomes. Even his eye is set in the right spot. And under certain lighting conditions, he has a swimming partner in the form of another “fish.”
Plain as day, and especially in the late afternoon sun, you can see the Panamint Shark, set in stone, in the land of little rain.
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