Some friends and I went out to explore Death Valley a few days ago, we explored some ghost towns and a few other cool things, so I decided I would share some pictures with you guys.

This is part of the the ghost town we camped in our first night there. Apparently it was abandon due to fraudulent activities.
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Just an exit from a canyon. At this point we're about 20 miles from the nearest road.

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These are the second and third mining towns we found, with an abandon car and an old mine shaft. We explored the mine for about an hour, we never quite got to the end.

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One of our camping spots.

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This is one of the roads we had to take to get to one of the mines. My idiot friend almost flipped the car from getting crossed up in one of those ruts. Too bad we didn't get it on video.

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This is our drive out of the park, thought it was a cool picture.

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Has anyone else been to Death Valley and explored the old mining towns? Or explored ghost towns similar?

- Selah

Cool! And no, I havent.

Looks like you had a good time and looks really interesting screams hills have eyes personally would have been as paranoid as fuck going to sleep there.

Cool adventure and pics dude. Too bad this thread will be locked soon.

-Selah

Looks like a good place to spend a week or two.

I really like that last pic, could you post a higher resolution version of it?

ive been there, scared the fuck out of me, i blame watching the hills have eyes

So who did yall take to bury out there?

You fucked up dude...You should have gone to the Sand dunes...

It's so awesome to camp out in the sand dunes, and in the middle of the night, go sledding down the dunes. pure awesomeness.

DUDE that is awesome! I'm so going next time. I'll be there again spring break with a 4runner convoy!

Yeah, that movie did have an impact on me there. We were all talking about how scary that shit would have been. It's so dark and quiet there at night, it's just eerie..
Sorry man, my friend has a shitty camera. I wanted to make it my desktop background.

We actually did go to the sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells. My friends camera was out of batteries at that time though, but fun times! Good old sand sledding.

Badass pictures.

Cool, thanks for the pics, this my friends is a good old fashioned content based thread, much better then all the other crap "if u postttt u wil gt 13trilion $$$" threads out there

ive neva seen a thread like that.

I've been to the one in that second picture. It's also really fun at stopping at abandoned shacks and gas stations on the way to Bishop. Neato indeed.

Nice.. That one photo of the path that zig zags in the black hills is really cool from what I've seen online. I never been deep into Death Valley. I don't own a 4x4 just a large pickup truck and looking at the muddy backroads I'm about 99% sure I would get stuck in the mud.

I want to go to Devils Racetrack Playa. where the rocks move. Something to do with the ground freezing up and the rocks skidding across. but other people believe it's something to do with mysterious magnetic properties in the rocks.

Some believe Ghost.

Blah, i just want to camp out there for the night. Now is the time to go. Between Dec-Lat Jan before it gets to hot.

I was expecting this to be about a peyote trip in the desert, but still; pretty cool. There's not really anywhere in Britain where I could have a trip like this, afaik, which is unfortunate because it looks awesome.

Dude, righteous adventure.
You took really nice pictures, too.
Now I'll have to plan something like that.

You should have visited the moving rocks. It's very trippy.

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Damn, I'd never heard of those before. Those rocks are fucking weird, man.



Especially this:
700lb's of rock just... disappears.

I spent just part of a day in death valley. I was nearby and decided to check out a couple ghost towns, since I will not likely be in that part of the country again for a long while. It was fun.

I saw those! The area was flooded though so we couldn't take a good look at the rock trails, but it's REALLY weird. I kind of think the frozen ice sheet theory might be accurate, but some of the rocks are like 80lbs! It's ridiculous.


I've decided to buy a 4Runner 4x4 to go out in a convoy this winter break, I'll be sure to post pictures of the new mining towns and other stuff we explore.

That's cool you went^^^ it's probably the best time to go, since it's not 120 degrees F out.

I'm surprised this got randomly bumped.