Death Valley 2016 Trip report

[PabloVTA]

and we come up to this really cool place that Onur is going to make the West Coast Parts hub

 

[PabloVTA]

after a short leg stretch we get back to it:
somebody put a whole dollar in the view machine, you could see for miles.

 

[PabloVTA]

and then we hit this really long flat straight away.
I pegged it.
What washboard? My truck was at full song and floating smooth and I loved it.
My GPS track says I did 90 sumthin er other, but no way. A solid 65 felt like I was peeling a layer of cheeks off my face.
[no speed limits were hurt during this trip]

 

[PabloVTA]

then we kept on going, like we used ta could...
wide open valleys turn into narrow little halls...

 

[PabloVTA]

then we come across an old mine,

 

[PabloVTA]

and some other stuff, look closely.

 

[PabloVTA]

They turn and head up this picturesque valley.
We carry on.

 

[spressomon]

Blah, blah blah, my 100 series rocks, blah...

LOL. The bait was for Spresso but whatever. He actually broke his REAR suspension right there. Had to retire for repairs back in the real world.

Actually the breakage had nothing to do with Toyota stuff but everything to do with the work, er lack of, that Sam Cothrun (SAMCO, Sparks Nevada...trophy truck builder guru ... go figure) did.

 

[PabloVTA]

and stuff:
these photos are only an hour and a half apart...
so naturally we get out and do a group shot.

 

[PabloVTA]

I plan on printing these out in my cubicle as a divider wall.

 

[PabloVTA]

it's about now when we get back in the rigs, Drew grabs the mic and says "Hey if there's any water in this "Crossing" coming up, you'll want to have your camera ready, I've only seen water in there once or twice and it was like a decade ago"

So yeah,

 

[PabloVTA]

And that's where my alternator got filed with Death Silt.
Amargosa River crossing, which is going north to Badwater.
THE lowest place in the Western Hemisphere.

 

[PabloVTA]

we camped one night where the arrow is, and then the last night at the end of this line.

Inyo Mine was really nice.
Drew made dinner that night. Killer pasta sauce!

I've skipped some things, sorry..my camera was acting up, and some of them are on my phone , so here is most of it, I'll try to add some more things as we go.

 

[PabloVTA]

on the way out to Stovepipe Wells:
And on the way home looking at Telescope Peak

 

[OGBeno]

Amargosa Sea rocks the Kasbah.

Solid @PabloVTA

 

[TrickyT]

I like the elevation plots from your GPS, especially the little blips below sea level.

 

[surfpig]

Awesome...

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Great pics. The story was we got up in the am to rain in Pleasant Canyon at the World Beater mine cabin. The plan was to traverse middle park/South Park, descend the scary bridge then down South Park

The problem was with the rain and slippery exposed hillside,we elected to go down Pleasant instead. We then headed south passed the Briggs mine and turned up Goler Wash. hopefully Steve got pics, because with the fog mist and low clouds, it was my most interesting traverse of Mengle Pass. We rolled into Butte Valley and passed the Anvil Springs turn were the Death Valley Germans became stuck and ultimately died.

Long descent of Warm Springs Canyon where we stopped for lunch at the old and long abandoned Warm Springs Resort.

 

[Kofoed]

Lots of miles. Nice to have Panamint Springs available for gas now (or at least shakes)

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Yes. Without paramount springs the fuel situation would change how you can do this trip.

Also left out of this so far, is the great job the guy at Panamint springs did welding @MountNGoat 'spring hanger back in place.