Just as the road began to head back down hill, just past that last canyon, was the namesake of this road. Artist's Palate. It's a really cool formation of reds, yellows, greens and purples all perfected through the process of decomposition. I'm sure glad decomposing rocks and minerals do not smell ;-)

This was a pretty popular spot. I saw people all along the way today once I got as far as Badwater, but this was definitely a well traveled area. There was even a father and three sons, well, I'm assuming he was the father, but anyway, they were ahead and I had to take my time doing other stuff because they were running all up and down these hills and I really did not want to have people pictures today. They sure had a lot of fun though and it was quite impressive that none of them ended up rolling down one of the hills. Although, I do think some ended up sliding down on their rears - they looked quite dusty when done.

I too spent a fair amount of time exploring these hills. The climbing was a lot easier here, well up until I had managed to get about a thousand feet up then I realized that it was indeed getting quite steep and there was that down to still deal with. I managed to yet again take a LOT of photographs including the banner that I specially made for this entire Desert section at the top of each page. That is a 360 image made at a high point of the Artist's Palette and I simply stitched it all together using Photoshop...

After I did the 360, I headed back to the car. Everybody was gone now, it was getting late, and a fearless raven was hanging about. I managed to get one half way decent photo of it before it decided I was not going to feed it so it left.

There are simply too many photos in this section for me to do them justice with a lot of text, so once again, just browse and enjoy :-)