Death Valley Deep Dive 2024

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Tracks are in this area if anyone wants to scope the satellite:

(36.5508578, -116.8552362)

LOL. I was locating and "walking" the road on GE when you posted. I measured it at approximately 1.09 mile, not including deviations and spurs. It's narrowness is baffling, but early autos weren't that wide and might have fit.

I'm uncertain of its intent nor can I hypothesize its reason for being. I assume it started at the current paved road or its predecessor, originally heading up the alluvium; now erased by time and elements. It ends on the east in another drainage. I followed that drainage up the mountainside looking for a path it might have run, but the terrain climbs in earnest. I might have dropped back down to the valley floor in the northern drainage to create a loop, sort of like an early Artist Palette sort of attraction.

It's an oddity. Maybe an early attempt at creating an attraction in the early days of the monument.