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Panamints on New Year's eve...

Jes

Jes

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The Panamints in the winter are always a special place as is the whole desert for me. My POS has evolved into a pure rock crawler but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy exploring and driving on "easy roads".
We started out early on a chilly December 31st and were in Panamint Valley by 9:00 A.M...
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That's 11,049' Telescope Peak in the back ground.
This was the first time I ever missed my windsheild, I was really cold...
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Some of the sights of Pleasant Canyon...
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Old cabin with the Argus range in the back ground...
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Stopping for a break...
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Storage shed...
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Entering the park...
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My hard core expedition rig, the heater does work though...
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Letting the dogs play in the snow...
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Roger's Pass, 7160'...
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...did I mention that I was cold? :D
Butte Valley and Stripped Butte...
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Death Valley and Nevada beyond...
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Lone wild burro in Middle Park...
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Looking down South Park Canyon at Panamint Valley...
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Heading down the ice falls...
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The treacherous shelf road...
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Near the bottom of the canyon it gets narrow...
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...definately not the place to be in a flash flood.
Panamint Valley...
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Andy climbing out of the canyon...
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...and down the winding road on one of the numerous alluvial fans...
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It was a lot warmer in the evening...
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Just an awesome place...
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Good times.
 
Jes, you know there are a lot of people that would look at you cross eyed for thinking that is a beautiful place right?

I'm not one of them. I love the desert. Even driving across I-80 for work, I can always find something new to look at or see things from a different perspective, depending on how the light plays the shadows.
 
DrMoab said:
Jes, you know there are a lot of people that would look at you cross eyed for thinking that is a beautiful place right?
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There are? Believe it or not, I like the desert better than the scenery of the Rubicon. I just find it to be home for me.
I agree with you on the shadows, unfortunately that day the clouds were playing just right so I couldn't find a good shadow shot. Plus by the time the sun was going down I was done with being cold all day and just wanted to jump in my truck and get warm.
 
Cool pics!

We were on the other side of the valley, exploring stuff outside of Tecopa.

Anyone at Stone or Briggs Cabins? How long did it take you to do the loop?
 
Thanks for sharing, Jes. Cool scenery and mining history pix. Have lots of good memories of wheelin with you and Andy, hope to do more in the furture.
 
karstic said:
Cool pics!

Anyone at Stone or Briggs Cabins? How long did it take you to do the loop?
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There were a couple of Jeeps at Briggs. The loop took us a leisurely six hours as we did stop many times.


It had been several years since I had done that loop and the shelf road seems to have grown narrower. Here was 2007 when we were coming up it...
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The bridge now has somemore reinforcement on top and coming down it with only seeing air on the passenger side was kinda scary.
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nice pics, it would be fun to plan a bigger run possible 5-10 rigs, i would love to do some exploring.
 
Jes said:
The bridge now has somemore reinforcement on top and coming down it with only seeing air on the passenger side was kinda scary.
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I wonder how all that stuff got up there?

 
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