Thanksgiving Weekend Death Valley trip

ridgeline · Post by **ridgeline** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:33 am

We were so close but so far away.

Doug, Ryan and I drove up Sat morning early, took the 190 from Olancha to the saline vly rd and then the Lippincot mine rd. Thought we were going to get there earlier. Ended up doing Little Ubehebe with Dougs son making his first summit.

Then went to the gps and could not get the garmin 60csx to change from utm into those god awful coordinates sooz left. Drove around for awhile, went to Teakettle junction to see if anyone left a change of site note, and ended up driving out in the dark coming out at Scottys Castle.

It was a fun day doing the four wheel drive road in, and seeing Ryan doing his first summit was priceless, hope to make the next one whith you guys!

Trailtrekker06 · Post by **Trailtrekker06** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:52 am

waaaaa

We missed you!!
Sorry about the coordinates- got 'em from a friend and the friend is reliable, so...
There were word directions, no? And Kathy posted a map on this thread.
Tom told us you guys would meet us at the Ubehebe Lead Mine Saturday morning if ya couldn't find us. We were at the correct spot for camp and there was no need to change the camp site, hence no note at Teakettle. I thought about you guys alot, kept hoping you'd drive by and see us.
But glad you had fun and glad Ryan bagged a peak. Cool. I went out Lippencott yesterday, was not as bad as I had imagined, but took more time than going any other way. Fun stuff.
Again, I'm sorry about the coordinates- guess Tom is right, I need to switch to UTM's like everybody else....

ridgeline · Post by **ridgeline** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:28 am

We should have been able to change the coordinates on the gps or figured out the utm prior to leaving, but not being desert dwellers we thought it would be easy. The verbal instructions make sense now, after being all over the place. The coronas were cold, logs ready to burn, food for a month and no place to party! next time.

Trailtrekker06 · Post by **Trailtrekker06** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:46 am

Next time for sure!
It was a great group and the Corridor was better than I had imagined it to be. Now that we are all fossil experts I am expecting big things in the future! Dinosaur bones, perhaps?? (I'd settle for a fish fossil or a complete set of the state rocks!!)
Sounds like everybody got home okay with some delays. The traffic was pretty much a mess no matter where you were coming from or headed to, it sounds like. EXCEPT for Tom who lives to darn close to EVERYTHING!

calipidder · Post by **calipidder** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:54 am

Trailtrekker06 wrote:Now that we are all fossil experts I am expecting big things in the future!

Next trip: Looking for Jesus in the patterns left by rocks on the Racetrack. I hear there is big money in that kind of stuff on Ebay.

Trailtrekker06 · Post by **Trailtrekker06** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:08 pm

heeheehheeee! Too funny.

tomcat_rc · Post by **tomcat_rc** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:51 pm

didn't we see him already - who was this guy?

that should have been a warning to all. I will get the rest of pictures and e-mails sent out later. the wind is now blowing llike a banshee with dust everywhere - looks like we got out just in time.

I saw nobody on road till I got back to Olancha - then a line of 75 cars before I could get out onto 395 - from there it took over an hour to get home - heavy traffic

more pictures:
http://members3.clubphoto.com/tom103807 ... uest.phtml

mountaineer · Post by **mountaineer** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:14 pm

I missed everybody also. I almost started down the Saline Valley Rd. yesterday but was unsure how long it would take to Panamint from there. Anybody know? 4x4 required? I wanted to get to Panamint for the late evening colors so ended up driving 395 to Lone Pine and in from there. Spectacular! Death Valley is on my list to see the rest of for sure!

It is good to hear the reports form the other folks who were there.

tomcat_rc · Post by **tomcat_rc** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:48 pm

from here it takes about 2-1/2 hours to get to the race track via Hunter Mountain turnoff. if you go saline valley to lippincott mine road it adds another hour or so to the trip. I did not need to go into Lone Pine - the cutoff from Olancha elimanates that need. But from this sign you are going away from Panamint - I would estimate Panamint Springs resort about 30 minutes from this sign.

wingding · Post by **wingding** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:16 pm

I uploaded pictures from the weekend - no captions yet - I'll work on the captions during the week.

Here they are:

Zabriskie Point/Golden Canyon (before I came to camp on Friday):

http://kathywing.smugmug.com/gallery/2178892

Ubehebe Mine and Corridor Canyon (Saturday):

http://kathywing.smugmug.com/gallery/2179250

Ubehebe and Little Hebe Peaks (Sunday):

http://kathywing.smugmug.com/gallery/2179008

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