evanescent: fleeting, transitory
evanescent wave: a nearfield standing wave, employed for total internal reflection microscopy
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Badwater 135 Ultramarathon
The "World's toughest footrace"
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Death Valley to Mount Whitney
Covering 135 miles (217km) non-stop from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, CA, the Badwater® 135 is the most demanding and extreme running race offered anywhere on the planet. The start line is at Badwater Basin, Death Valley, which marks the lowest elevation in North America at 280’ (85m) below sea level. The race finishes at Whitney Portal at 8,300’ (2530m), which is the trailhead to the Mt. Whitney summit, the highest point in the contiguous United States.
I had previously completed the race 9 times in 2002 through 2011, and returned several times later not as a runner but as race staff photographer. Over those years the race changed considerably. The cutoff time for official completion was reduced from 60 to 48 hours in 2011; in 2014 the Death Valley National Park imposed a moraorium on sporting events so the course was re-routed to include climbs to Horseshoe Meadow and Cerro Gordo; and from 2015 onward the race has started in the evening rather than the morning, so runners are no lnger exposed to the fyll daytime heat of the hottest place on earth.
This page highlights some photos from my years at Badwater. Click on the links below for many more photos from each annual edition of the Badwater, and for the years (2002-2012) when I was runnng at Badwater.
Some links to photos from locations around the Badwater course: this very
special part of the world is well worth visiting if you have time before or after the race.
Death Valley
Racetrack Valley
Panamint & Saline Valleys
Owens Valley
Alabama Hills
Eureka Dunes
Trona Pinnacles
Selected Badwater photos 2013-2022
The "World's toughest footrace"
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Into the sun - AM start, 2013 |
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