I've never been there, but the lady in the Fox News interview said that it's essentially like Death Valley. I guess she wanted to give herself an 'extreme' test right at the outset, so that the rest of the trip would be comparatively easy :-)
8 posted on 08/08/2008 10:41:00 PM PDT by Stoat
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