Panamint Valley Trip

[BRUZR]

AZLugz and I (along with a bunch of others from AZ that don't frequent this site) convoyed out to Panamint Valley, through Death Valley and had THE most amazing time wheeling in and around the valley...

It was a decent shakedown for BRUZR II, but nothing too serious. The new tires did an excellent job on the trail and actually rode better on the way home than on the way out there...

I posted up a bunch of pics on Webshots. Let me know what you think.

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[rockr]

thanks for sharing:)

i lived in wildrose station with my parents in 1965-71. WOW.....what a trip it was! we wheeled the entire panamint valley forever. you need to hit ballarat, then south to goler canyon, and on into butte valley............my favotrte area. i am due for a trip there soon:D

[BRUZR]

thanks for sharing:)

i lived in wildrose station with my parents in 1965-71. WOW.....what a trip it was! we wheeled the entire panamint valley forever. you need to hit ballarat, then south to goler canyon, and on into butte valley............my favotrte area. i am due for a trip there soon:D

We ran Pleasant Canyon up to Rogers Pass, then across the ridge and back out through South Park...

Someone said that one of the old trucks sitting out there at Ballarat is rumored to have belonged to Charles Manson... Was that where he hung out with his crazies or something?

[rockr]

We ran Pleasant Canyon up to Rogers Pass, then across the ridge and back out through South Park...

Someone said that one of the old trucks sitting out there at Ballarat is rumored to have belonged to Charles Manson... Was that where he hung out with his crazies or something?

just rumors;)

he was arrested in goler at barker ranch in 69. calif highway patrolman, jim purcell sat at one of the tables in our small cafe in wildrose and told us about the entire bust and what went down. the following couple of days, my dad and i went up there in the willys jeep to check out the area. we had been up there numerous times before so no stranger to the area. we went through the two-tone bus that they brought in from the death valley side. goler was like the most brutal trail in the area back then, waterfalls and all. and by the way, surprise canyon was just the opposite of what it is today......passable with a 2WD truck. anyways.................i have pics of the bus etc but on 35mm slides. i shot out all of the tires and most of the windows of the bus with my 22 rifle (typical kid stuff back them days). manson was not known to be connected with the tate/labianca murders at that time but arrested for destroying park service construction equiptment over by the racetrack. rumers of the bus whereabouts are rampant. i heard it was taken out and put on display at ceasars palace in vegas for awhile but dunno the truth to that one. dismantled and burried i don't believe that one.

jim and kirk barker owned the ranch in goler and also owned a house at the shoshone indian ranch in panamint valley. kirk showed me a gold album that brian wilson gave to her for permission to hold-up at their goler ranch to write music in seclusion. i was 15 years old and a big beachboy/beatles fan and was in awe of the album. later turned out manson and beachboys were connected musically and the drug scene.


ballarat was visited by manson/family, sure thing. they were also at wildrose.............those were hippy days, they blended right in with the rest of the "freaks" not to put a bad connotation on the word freak :)
we had seldom seen slim (charles ferge of ballarat) stay in one of our cabins during his last days alive...........dying of yellow jaundice et al.


death valley stories? yep i got a few!

thanks for the pics!

[ROKCRLR]

Thanks for the postin those pics. I flew into Death Valley with my Dad a few years back. I always thought it would be fun to go wheel out there. I've always wanted to go see race track.