88 (D-43) Death Valley Days (2)

88 (D-43) DEATH VALLEY DAYS: Dear Teacher, Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=ZoxpVKmX-FQ&feature=related

Return tomorrow for Part 3, the exciting ending.
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And here's a little information about Furnace Creek:

Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California. The population was 31 at the 2000 census. The elevation of the village is 190 feet (58 m) below sea level, making it the lowest census-designated place in the United States.

At Furnace Creek is the headquarters of Death Valley National Park. Most lodging is closed in the summer, when temperatures in the area can surpass 125 °F (52 °C). There is a visitor's center and a gas station in Furnace Creek. The village is surrounded by a number of campgrounds.

Golf anyone? Devil's Golf Course in the Furnace Creek area near Badwater is an immense area of rock salt eroded by wind and rain into jagged spires. So incredibly serrated that "only the devil could play golf on such rough links." It's the lowest golf course in the world, at 214 feet (65 m) below sea level!


Remember, you read that it was at Furnace Creek that the highest temperature in the United States was recorded in July of 1913 -----
(57° C).

Furnace Creek was formerly the base of Death Valley operations for the Pacific Coast Borax Company.

Jane
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VOCABULARY:
--Golf anyone? = "Would anyone like to play golf?"
--jagged = "dentelé"
--spires = See Post 59 (Bryce Canyon), if you have forgotten this word.
--serrated = "en dents de scie"
--rough = "rude"
--links = Many golfers use "links" and "golf course" interchangeably. But "links" is actually a specific type of golf course. See Post 13 on the Scotland Blog. http://uiadinscotland.blogspot.com/2009/10/13-golf-in-scotland.html However, that definition certainly doesn't apply here!
Interested golfers go to : http://golf.about.com/cs/golfterms/g/bldef_links.htm
........More about Borax soon.