Marble bath in death valley national park california.
Blue marble bathtub death valley.
They installed the tub in the misidentified location marked as marble bath on the erroneous maps.
Blue marble bath death valley national park.
Popular lore has it that a professor in years past brought an actual bathtub up here and filled it with blue marbles to give the place a reason for having the name.
Overall marble canyon is doubtless one of death valley s greatest treasures.
The first 4 pictures are the real marble bath the second 3 are the installed marble bath in death valley california.
In the meantime i have a link for you with pics gps waypoints and a trail description if you re attempting to find it s location.
Indeed there seems to be no marble or limestone outcrops anywhere near.
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A cast iron bath tub buried in a wash and filled with blue marbles.
Before the area became part of death valley national park to validate the incorrectly marked maps in a good natured way a desert explorer named wendel moyer recruited a few friends and rounded up an old bathtub and a load of blue marbles.
We spent wednesday night just below the marble bathtub during the haboob.
See the blue marbles entry for more babble of the bath.
Oh by the way we don t claim to be experts in anything other than having a fun time exploring.
And the story behind this tub goes something like this.
I m still awaiting a reply to whether the blue marble bath is still there.
We strongly support both tread lightly and the blue ribbon coalition.
Blue marble bathtub in death valley.
Yes another death valley area mystery.
We must have just missed you.
Click here and here to learn more about the story of the marble bath.
Tub is still there full of blue marbles and rubber duckies.
Not sure if this is what you wanted from your original.
I have always felt that the sites the park service advertises are fitting of what generally lies in the stark mountains and yet that the very best is out there unadvertised discoered only by those willing to find a side of nature that is not developed or mapped but in the case of marble canyon this fine example.
Photo explanation to follow in a future post.
But if you look into the shallow canyon leading east immediately after dropping down from the pass toward saline valley you will find an actual cast iron bathtub filled with blue marbles.
Trail conditions weather and land ownership change constantly and as always everyone must take responsibility for themselves both for safety and complying with the laws of the.
Edited by lighthawk 31 december 2017 05 23 pm.
