DESERT ADVENTURE SNOW FALLS DURING TREK.Byline: - Daily News Photographer Lee Bergthold returned after 11 days treking in a mountain range west of Death Valley with images of an intense desert snowstorm. When the storm hit Christmas night, Bergthold and companion Connie Simpkins headed for a long-deserted miner's cave he had discovered in an earlier backpacking backpacking Sport of hiking while carrying clothing, food, and camping equipment in a pack on the back. In the early 20th century backpacking was primarily a means of getting to wilderness areas inaccessible by car or by day hike. expedition through the Argus Range The Argus Range is a mountain range located in eastern California, southeast of the town of Darwin, between the Coso Range and the Panamint Valley. The range contains Maturango Peak, at 8,839 feet above sea level. . They ended up stuck in the cave for two days. ``I figured we'd stay there for one day and then break out. But we couldn't. The storm was just intense,'' said Bergthold, an Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. photography instructor and a wilderness-survival instructor. The pair left the cave after water from the storm began seeping seep intr.v. seeped, seep·ing, seeps 1. To pass slowly through small openings or pores; ooze. 2. To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually. n. 1. through the rock ceiling and walls and flooding it. The storm dropped inches of snow on the barren range and filled normally dry washes with water. ``We were going through whiteout, wind, rain, snow,'' Bergthold said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Lee Bergthold and Connie Simpkins look over a snow-covered range outside Death Valley. Bergthold used a timer timer, n radiographic timing device that functions as an automatic exposure timer and a switch to control the current to the high-tension transformer and filament transformer. The face of the timer is calibrated in seconds and fractions of seconds. to shoot the picture. (2) Photographer Lee Bergthold pauses during a snowstorm in a mountain range west of Death Valley. Bergthold and a companion, Connie Simpkins, waited in a cave for two days while the storm raged outside. Lee Bergthold |
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