(2025-01-25, 10:27 PM)Brice Wrote: Deadman pass, obviously.

Nice one!

My young daughter had seen Teakettle Junction and Crankshaft Crossing, so it was easy to convince her that we would see corpses (I said "people hanging") when we went over Deadman Pass. I was not sure if she was relieved or disappointed when they were not to be found there.

I have often wondered what is behind the name.

(2025-01-26, 12:24 PM)VintageDUG Wrote: I want my ashes spread over Stripped Butte Valley via a small 50/60s era airplane. Ideally, they would be tossed out of a door-less plane as it buzzes Russell's. That valley is my go-to for taking friends and family on 1-5 day trips and it was a cool story from Emmett's book. 

A small portion of my best friend's ashes may or may not have been spread at the overlook above Stripped Butte Valley.

Too bad Sylvia Winslow, founder of the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, isn’t alive. She used to buzz the Panamints in her little airplane dubbed Buttercup and explore all the desert lands before China Lake removed all that region from public access. I’ve seen photos of the plane parked in South Park.

(2025-01-26, 03:40 PM)DAW89446 Wrote:

(2025-01-26, 12:24 PM)VintageDUG Wrote: I want my ashes spread over Stripped Butte Valley via a small 50/60s era airplane. Ideally, they would be tossed out of a door-less plane as it buzzes Russell's. That valley is my go-to for taking friends and family on 1-5 day trips and it was a cool story from Emmett's book. 

A small portion of my best friend's ashes may or may not have been spread at the overlook above Stripped Butte Valley.

Too bad Sylvia Winslow, founder of the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, isn’t alive. She used to buzz the Panamints in her little airplane dubbed Buttercup and explore all the desert lands before China Lake removed all that region from public access. I’ve seen photos of the plane parked in South Park.

I've driven along the airstrip at South Park.

Here's a book written by Winslow, the cover depicting her plane and parked on the desert floor in what looks to be Panamint Valley near or at Ballarat.

https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/adven...ilot-23213

(2025-01-26, 02:03 PM)MojaveGeek Wrote:

(2025-01-25, 10:27 PM)Brice Wrote: Deadman pass, obviously.

I have often wondered what is behind the name.

According to "Place names of the Death Valley region in California and Nevada" which I just discovered can be read for free at archive.org: "So named because, about 1905 during the boom days of Greenwater, the body of an unknown man was found there."

(2025-01-26, 11:04 PM)Brice Wrote: According to "Place names of the Death Valley region in California and Nevada" which I just discovered can be read for free at archive.org: "So named because, about 1905 during the boom days of Greenwater, the body of an unknown man was found there."

Thank you for the tip on the book as well as Deadman! I'll have to check that out.