Death Valley, Panamint Valley Oct 1-3 2010

Friday - before sunset.

Dan, Tim & myself headed out about 4:30 to run the trail up to Aguerenerry Point to catch the sunset.

Here's Tim chasing Dan up the mountain:


Dan inches out a lead:


Raptor over Death Valley:

Great trip Andy, thanks for leading us across the valleys. The weather was great - last night it was beautiful and the temperature was perfect. The clouds made for great pictures.

Death Valley is a beautiful place - if you haven't been there and seen it in person you owe it to yourself to go. Every time we go we are impressed with the panoramas.

There are some great trails there but many are 4WD trails (not high speed runs). If you're not into anything other than high speed desert washes and dirt roads/fire trails, you won't be as happy with Death Valley as you are with the high speed stuff.

I'll post pics later - got a number of them to download and re-size.

As Dan said, DV has a few high speed sections, but invarioubly there are some bumpy sections that you need to cross to get to the quick stuff. DV is more about the scenery & history than WOT Raptor running - and as it's a National Park, they have (gasp) speed limits on the backroad trails.

Fortunately the 1st run to Ag Pt, contained no such bumps - video is uploading......

Here's the first video of Aguereberry point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZmts1gFtg

:rep::shock1: NICE! Hope there's more coming.

Andy,

Great vid, music and editing. The trail looked fantastic. Wish I could have been there, thanks!!!!!!

Anybody notice a Black Raptor driving through town and on up to Father Crowley vista on Friday afternoon? ;p

Halcyon said:

Anybody notice a Black Raptor driving through town and on up to Father Crowley vista on Friday afternoon? ;p

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Yes, the one that honked as it went by Panamint Springs - loaded with stuff in the bed.

Halcyon said:

Anybody notice a Black Raptor driving through town and on up to Father Crowley vista on Friday afternoon? ;p

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Did you have a motorcycle in the back of the truck (looked like a Honda off road)

Halcyon said:

Anybody notice a Black Raptor driving through town and on up to Father Crowley vista on Friday afternoon? ;p

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Was that you? Why didn't you stop and say hello?