Sliding Stone, Racetrack Playa
by James Capo
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Sliding Stone, Racetrack Playa
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James Capo
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The “sliding rocks” or “sailing stones” of Death Valley were first documented by miners early in the 1900s. Ranging in size from pebbles to 600-pound (272-kilogram) boulders, they seemed to move of their own accord, leaving long, perplexing trails behind them in the playa's dried mud, resulting in the name of this unique place: The Racetrack Playa. We now know that it is a rare occurance of rain and cold that turns the playa into a shallow pond. Thin ice forms, and when it begins to break up and get blown by the wind, it pushes these stones along the lake bed, leaving trails up to 700' long in the mud.
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February 3rd, 2017
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