Just saw this article. I think I've heard of it before but thought it was hocus-pocus. Seems real enough according to the article. http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/441 ... ack+playa/




EB

It is a migration to their breeding grounds.
In comparison to geological time/motion-they are fast.
And they make turtles look like race cars....

Read up on it.
lc

I heard and read about earlier tonight here: http://www.backcountrypilot.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=11421

I gotta get a life. You sure can't predict when you'll be second on a story.

Yahoo runs the rock story about every two years, I think Mythbusters even did a segment on them.

Some on the Diamond Valley dry lake, Nv. Very cool.

NASA is studying it. They named one of the rolling rocks, Karen. Seems Karen weights 700lbs and went missing a few years ago - I think they put her picture on a milk carton. The only viable solution is Beruvian abduction.

Some ingenious local crop circler is having a real belly laugh over this.

This "mystery" has been solved and recorded on video over 20 years ago. After a rain storm the top inch or less of the lake bed becomes very slippery mud for a few hours, and the rocks "move" by being blown by the wind.

So if your driving on I-40 between Barstow & Needles, there is an exit called Kelbaker Road. Go south a bit and you will see a pipeline road that parallels the interstate. If your vehicle is 4WD, take it for a while, fun alternate to boring rear views of trucks. On several of the flatter hilltops,you can find moving rocks that have trails in the desert armor. They do not fit the theories for lakebed rocks. Always peaked my interest as a geologist, not enough to make me spend a lot of intellectual horsepower on them. Most of them tend to have trails indicating SE movement.