Death Valley Deep Dive 2024

[Beardilocks]

Scratch that question on the DVNP road status page ... I fired up Google Earth since my print map didn't have enough detail. Redlands Canyon Road (and Spurs) on DVNP page are same roads that have always been there, and that terminate at the Wilderness Boundary. To get down to the Briggs Mine in Panamint Valley you'd have to hoof it down Woods Canyon (I think?) to Redlands Spring, and then it'd eventually kick out into the Mine ... which I'm assuming is private property and not somewhere pleasant to hike into.

Correct.  Road terminates at the Wilderness Boundary in Redlands Canyon.  I have never hiked down past that, but the views are nice.  There is some sort of camp on a drainage of Manly that you can see on a sat, specifically what looks like a school bus, if you hit the boundary and turn left into Manly.  But I've never been up to it. 

I did poke my nose down that road this trip and it seems to still be in decent shape up to a point.  The pin-striping got a bit more than I wanted to endure eventually and I had a good spot to turn around so I gave up.  It was getting late at that point anyway.

Thanks for the quote from Digonnet! (Am I the only one that can never remember which letter to double up???) I left my bible at home this time. I had no idea he built both cabins. Makes you wonder who built one in btw Russell Camp & Geologists.