Saturday, April 27, 2019

Crossing the Panamint Mountains in the Rat

The second stage of our adventure was leaving the Panamint Springs Resort and heading north into Death Valley, crossing the Panamint Range.

This dirt/rock road was classified as a Level 2 road, with Level 3 in a few places.  This means that you shouldn't try it in your Prius (or, more specifically, don't try it in OUR Prius)

It was amazing.  The road was a nothing for our 4Runner.  In fact, and this is the truth, we didn't even need to put it into 4WD once!  But that is a testament to the vehicle.



A section of the road we drove on:





After we had climbed a few thousand feet we had an awesome view back down into the Panamint Springs area.  Because we were facing the early morning sun the photo can't do justice to the view:




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