Date(s): 11/10/2018 - 11/18/2018
Time: All Day
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Contact: Dave Londo
Email: david.r.londo@kp.org
Phone: 858-576-9117
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Panamint Valley Days / Death Valley
November 9-11 / 11-18, 2018
Trail Boss: Dave Londo David.Londo@att.net
(858) 576-9117
(619) 458-6654 cel
This is two events back-to-back
Part 1: Panamint Valley Days is a CA4WD organized event — November 9-11
Base camp is near Trona, CA
Registration $55 on-line https://cal4wheel.com/panamint-valley-days
Runs to choose from on Fri, Sat, Sun — sign-ups at base camp
Part 2: Death Valley TDS club run — November 11-18
Base camp near Stove Pipe Wells, CA
RV sites $40 /night
Tent Campground $12/night
Hotel rooms $144/night
Registration — https://deathvalleyhotels.com/our-hotel/rv-park-and-camping/
Call (760) 786-2387
Primitive free camping nearby at Marble Canyon
Some spots we may visit: Goler Wash / Mengle Pass, Badwater, Devil’s Golf Course, Marble Canyon, Golden Canyon, 20 Mule Team Canyon, Dante’s View, Sand Dunes, Mosaic Canyon, Salt Creek, Scotty’s Castle, Ubeheb Craters, Titus Canyon Narrows, Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, “The Race Track”(moving rocks), silver mines, ghost towns, (+a rare intact hidden stamp mill)
Death Valley is a land of extremes. It is one of the hottest places on the surface of the Earth with summer temperatures averaging well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It encompasses the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at 282 feet below the level of the sea, and it is the driest place in North America with an average rainfall of only 1.96 inches a year.
Named features on maps of Death Valley include the Funeral Mountains, Coffin Peak, Hell’s Gate, Starvation Canyon and Dead Man Pass – this is clearly a place with a bad history, reflecting the troubles and misfortunes endured by the pioneers who first traversed, inhabited and mined the region during the end of the 19th century. There are also many relics from a hundred and fifty years of history, which give an insight into the harsh life of the early settlers – borax and metal ore mines, ghost towns, charcoal kilns and other ruins. Petroglyphs and ancient foot-trails provide evidence of the Shoshone Indians who lived here even earlier.
Ham Radio 147.480 simplex
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