OAUSA Net – November 13, 2014 – Destination Death Valley NP

[toms]

The official start of the "Season" for Death Valley was October 15th. This is a good time to plan your trip to Death Valley whether by passenger car or 4 Wheel drive. There is much to take in, see and do either from the pavement or the backroads. Tonight we will go over the basic of Death Valley and time permitting talk about some of the history.
Below is a list of Top 50 items in Death Valley from a survey. Bold items are ones we have posted pictures of. My additions to the list are:
My Additions
Chloride Cliff
Saline Valley
Warm Springs
Steel & Dedeckera Pass
Striped Butte

Top 50
1. Dante's View
2. Zabriskie Point
3. Titus Canyon (Death Valley Junction)
4. Artist's Drive
5. Badwater
6. Artists Palette
7. Ubehebe Crater
8. The Racetrack
9. Golden Canyon
10. Mosaic Canyon
11. Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
12. Scotty's Castle
13. Twenty Mule Team Canyon
14. Devil's Golf Course
15. Panamint Mountains
16. Eureka Dunes
17. Aguereberry Point
18. Harmony Borax Works
19. Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley
20. Darwin Falls
21. Stovepipe Wells Village
22. Telescope Peak trail
23. Charcoal Kilns
24. Natural Bridge Canyon
25. Furnace Creek Golf Course
26. Salt Creek
27. Amargosa Opera House
28. Red Pass
29. Skidoo Mill
30. Daylight Pass
31. Father Crowley Vista Point
32. Borax Museum
33. Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Museum
34. Ashford Mill Ruins
35. Hunter Mountain (Death Valley Junction)
36. Lippincott Mine Road
37. Tea Kettle Junction
38. Ballarat Ghost Town
39. Barker Ranch
40. Geologist's Cabin
41. Saratoga Springs
42. Warm Springs Mine
43. Cerro Gordo
44. Funeral Mountains
45. Mengel Pass
46. Briggs Mine
47. Ghost Town of Schwab
48. Keane Wonder Mine (Death Valley Junction)
49. The Devil's Speedway
50. Keystone Mine

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Map

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A1 Panamint Flat dry Lake.jpg (320.28 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

A2 Gohler Wash.jpg (3.08 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

A3 Goler Wash.jpg (405.68 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

A4 Remains of BarkerRanch.jpg (433.51 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

A5 Mengle Pass.jpg (2.68 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

A6 Geologist Cabin.jpg (4.36 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

A7 Burros x3.jpg (345.55 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

A8 Striped Butte.jpg (3.05 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

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B1 Chloride Cliff.jpg (2.64 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

B2 ChlorideCliff looking South to Bad Water.jpg (259.82 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

B3 ChlorideCliff looking west.jpg (345.85 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

B4 Looking North West from Red Pass.jpg (4.53 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

B5 Titus Canyon.jpg (2.98 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

B6 Titus Canyon.jpg (398.16 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

B7 Mesquite Camp Grounds.jpg (2.68 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

B8 MesquiteSprings Camp ground on Death Valley Wash.jpg (300.92 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

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C1 Ubehebe.jpg (3.98 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

C2 Cut Tire.jpg (2.28 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

C3 4WD leaving Ubehebe on Race Track Road.jpg (3.07 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

C4 Tea Kettle Juction.jpg (4.12 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

C5 Race Track.jpg (3.39 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

C5a Top of Lippencott Mine Road.jpg (2.15 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

C6 Saline Valley & Salt Marsh from Lippencott Mine Road.jpg (356.96 KiB) Viewed 2095 times

C7 Lower Warm Springs Saline Valley.jpg (3.16 MiB) Viewed 2095 times

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D1 Euruka Sand Dunes.JPG (4.77 MiB) Viewed 2098 times

[cruiserlarry]

Amazing place....looking forward to the net

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[NotAMog]

Are we starting web check-ins with this net?

I'd like to request a check-in for myself KD6GCO and for KN6VL. I expect to be on Keller but it will be after check-in.

Thanks,

[DaveK]

Are we starting web check-ins with this net?

I'd like to request a check-in for myself KD6GCO and for KN6VL. I expect to be on Keller but it will be after check-in.

Thanks,

Bruce

This is the right place to get an early check-in. We have you and John logged-in. Thanks!

[KK6GFF]

Please pre-check me in, Roger KK6GFF, West LA.

Thanks!