Road to Joshua Tree

On the road to Joshua Tree National Park to help with the Photography and Platinum printing workshop by Don Messec.  Its the third year in a row for this workshop at Joshua Tree and yes Platinum printing includes making the negatives on location.  As always we drive through Box Canyon on the way but this year the road has been closed for weeks do to flooding. Actually more than flooding, the road was ripped out and doesn't look like the state of California is in the mood to repave it which would be a major and expensive project.

With Don's 4WD we were able to make through the canyon. A lot of the vegetation was washed away  but the canyon is great and maybe it should be left like it is for 4Wd access and camping. It parallels the interstate so through traffic doesn't suffer but some trucks used to use it to save a couple minutes.

Flowers in Box Canyon