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A view of the athels and their shade from my tent

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fc2-000026-furnace-creek-athels.jpg I'm lucky enough to get one of the Furnace Creek campsites in the athel treesThumbnailsMe, hot but content, sitting in the shade of the athel treesI'm lucky enough to get one of the Furnace Creek campsites in the athel treesThumbnailsMe, hot but content, sitting in the shade of the athel treesI'm lucky enough to get one of the Furnace Creek campsites in the athel treesThumbnailsMe, hot but content, sitting in the shade of the athel treesI'm lucky enough to get one of the Furnace Creek campsites in the athel treesThumbnailsMe, hot but content, sitting in the shade of the athel treesI'm lucky enough to get one of the Furnace Creek campsites in the athel treesThumbnailsMe, hot but content, sitting in the shade of the athel trees

These are nice trees, even though they're non-native and somewhat invasive.

The bottle of brown stuff on the picnic table is tea. I just stuffed a couple of tea bags in the bottle with my already hot water and let the hot sun do the work of making the tea.