This trip is great. My wife and I are having a blast. Can't wait for the what comes next.
Race track was real cool. And Scotty's Castle was good to.

 

sm_rubi and I had a great time on this trip. We drove a total of 956 miles in 3 days and there is so much we didn't get to see. I think it would take a week to see the entire Valley. Thanks Toad and WOL for arranging this great excursion. I wish we could have continued on to Vegas with you all...

Here are a few pics from Day 1.

Gathering in the parking lot of Kristy’s Café in Ridgecrest


Overlooking Trona Pinnacles



Hiking up to explore, with Moochie standing on the top rock


View from the top


Play with the colors a bit and it looks just like Mars


Our girls at Ballarat Ghost Town

 

Looking out from one of the buildings


Stopping to get some shots of reflection off water in Panamint Valley


Holy Moly Racing & Blazer4949 going through Filer Wash


Exploring Barker Ranch (or what’s left of it)


Looking out from the only unburned structure at the Ranch


WOL watching and WOLette filming Bondsy and Toad climb up Mengal Pass


Enjoying the view overlooking Butte Valley

 

James90755, Trailbud & WOL (in Jeep) trying to talk the idiot out of trying to climb up Mengal Pass in his MB with low profile tires


Driving through Butte Valley with Striped Butte in the background


Wild Burros in the pink glow at dusk


Badwater Basin in the moonlight


To see all my pics from Day 1 click here


Link to slideshow
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...20-%20Day%201/

 

I've exceeded my space limit!! Here's a link to photo bucket for the pics I took.

http://s748.photobucket.com/albums/x...view=slideshow

 

Nice pics Frank - thanks for sharing! Hope you and your son had as much fun as our family did!

 

OK here are the pics from Day 2

Getting ready to head out the next morning from the Stagecoach Hotel & Casino in Beatty, NV. It was pretty cold for us So Cal people (seriously, I hadn't worn a down jacket and gloves in ages)



WOL & WOLette leading us down into the valley


Telescope Peak ? somebody correct me if I'm wrong...


Scotty’s Castle



View looking out from Tower in Scotty’s Castle


Toad (looking like she’s getting ready to hop ) and Bullfrog checking out Trail Bud’s ORE Tailgate Table (I want one of those!) while we wait for the others to finish their tour of the Castle

 

Ubehebe Crater


Making the ˝ mile trek to Little Ubehebe (are we there yet?)


Parked at Tea Kettle Junction


Toad and Bullfrog hanging their Kettle


My daughter Alexa at the Racetrack – I think this was my favorite site we visited


SM_Rubi heading to the starting line (where it is believed the rocks begin the “race” across the dry lake bed)



Andrew (“Wayolito”) our official photographer, in foreground and WOL and WOLette in background, hoping hoping to catch a rock moving (they were unsuccessful)

 

More pics from the Race Track -- although we all put our amazingly brilliant minds together, we still could not figure out how the rocks actually moved




Dawn at the Racetrack, time to head back on the 23 mile dirt road, in the dark with lots of dust and some hair pin turns -- trust me, it was pretty crazy!



Link to the rest of the pics for day 2

 

Unfortunately we were unable to continue on to Vegas with the rest of the group so this was the last portion of our trip. We followed the group through Titus Canyon and then headed home.

WOL and WOLette stopping for a photo op at Red Pass


Heading up Titus Canyon Road



WOL and Trail Bud’s rigs over looking Titus Canyon


Parked at Leadfield mining “town”



Shack at Leadfield