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Panamint Valley December 29th 2015 - January 5th
2016 |
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Part of the Argus Range |
Surprise Canyon cutoff |
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My camp |
Scot's camp across the road |
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The RV was out for Tuesday and
Wednesday nights but they went back to Ridgecrest for New Years Eve on
Thursday. Dave showed up New Years day. On Wednesday, Scot, Tyler, Brenndon and
myself brought both Jeeps to Darwin, then down the wash to China Garden
and out below Darwin Falls. I forgot to bring the camera for pictures of
the fish at China Garden Springs. Tyler and Brenndon were late getting
back to camp because they pole-vaulted over near Indian Ranch. The tow
bar on the 96 Cherokee came loose and hit the soft dirt road while the
very driving. The back wheels came off the ground, luckily no one was
hurt. When we got back to camp Shawna, Patience and a friend of Tyler's
were there. Latter that day Tyler took his friend Tanner to the
Emergency Room in Ridgecrest because he had gone over the handle bars on
the quad and broke his collar bone. Years ago Patience had broken her
collar bone on the same quad. |
Austin, Brenndon, Scot, Shawna and
the quad |
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Started out with two Jeeps |
Damaged tow bar, Brenndon drove the old Jeep to Ridgecrest
when he left Thursday |
Pleasant Canyon |
Clair Camp |
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World Beater Mine |
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Dave at the World Beater Mine |
World Beater Mine Cabin |
The Road from Clair Camp to the World Beater
Mine was not maintained as well as the road getting up to Clair Camp.
The road from the cabin to the actual mine site was even worse. We
parked near the site and walked up the road a ways past it. The dogs
even ignored each other for a while when they were looking down at four
burros. |
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The road above the mine site with the dogs looking over
the edge |
The cabin didn't have any beds but was clean, there was an
outhouse rodents frequented |
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There was a little water down
around Warm Sulfur Spring near Indian Ranch. There had been nothing but
salt flats a couple of months ago. |
My annual camping in Panamint
Valley for New Years turned out well. For the week there was no wind to
speak of and no rain until we were packing up to go. Then we caught about a 1/2
hour of light rain. It snowed the day we left at the higher elevations. We
turned back while exploring South Park because I didn't like the severity of
the road especially while driving my relatively new Jeep. We explored a canyon up near the
Limestone Mine off Nadeau Road that had spots that made me a little uncomfortable. The
weather which dipped into the mid teens at night, raised until it didn't
even get below freezing the last night we were there. Days that had been sunny turned
cloudy near the end of the trip. |
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