Panamint Springs, CA

A unique landing spot in the Panamint Valley of California. Many neat mining ruins in the surrounding hills including the well known Lookout City within hiking distance.

Dan flies his Cessna Cardinal 177RG from Lone Pine Airport east to the Inyo Mountains, Panamint Valley, and Saline Valley in Death Valley National Park.

This video captures an exciting flight that explores the fascinating and diverse land of extremes between Mt. Whitney and Death Valley. Overflights include the movie-famous Alabama Hills, the Cerro Gordo Silver Mines, the extreme slopes of the Inyo Mountains, the Saline and Panamint Valleys, Star Wars Canyon (aka Rainbow Canyon) and the Panamint Sand Dunes. Close approaches to terrain are enhanced with glorious QHD video. Geographic features are labeled for the pleasure of learning about the region.

Starting from Lone Pine Airport, we climb out over the Alabama Hills, then along the Inyo Mountains to the Cerro Gordo Mines, then from Saline Valley to the Malpais Mesa Wilderness. We then descend into jet-training-central Star Wars Canyon on our way to the Panamint Valley Dunes. Finally, we take one last jog back to the Saline Valley to point out the famous Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park.

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0:00 Introduction
0:08 Lone Pine Airport California - September 2018
2:57 Alabama Hills Owens Valley, California
4:11 Inyo Mountains East of Lone Pine, California
6:36 Cerro Gordo Mines Inyo Mountains, California
9:47 Malpais Mesa Malpais Mesa Wilderness
11:11 Rainbow Canyon aka Star Wars Canyon
12:05 Panamint Springs Panamint Valley, California
13:17 Panamint Dunes Panamint Valley, California
14:22 Nelson Range North of Panamint Valley
15:25 Saline Valley Death Valley National Park

April 1st 2019 we showed up in Panamint Valley, CA. for a week of off roading and exploring. In part one we bag the Minnietta Cabin in the Argus Range. This is one of the most sought after volunteer cabins in the valley and we got it all to ourselves for 8 days.

We'll also visit the Osborne Cabin which is further up the canyons and washes from the Minnietta.