Happy Halloween From Sentinel Peak

[DeathValleyDazed]

Surprised to have AT&T cell on top. Hiked from Panamint City. Clear views of Mt Whitney and even San Gorgonio my back yard growing up in SoCal. I found registers for Candace66 but can’t find one for MojaveGeek?

[Candace66]

Nice! 

I noticed there was a second, old register container.  One of those pipe sections with a screw-off lid.  It was chained to a rock, near the current register.  I couldn't unscrew the lid.  I wonder if there are still old signatures in there?

[Kauri]

Happy Halloween! Hope you don't find too many ghosts in Panamint City

[DeathValleyDazed]

Nice! 

I noticed there was a second, old register container.  One of those pipe sections with a screw-off lid.  It was chained to a rock, near the current register.  I couldn't unscrew the lid.  I wonder if there are still old signatures in there?

Fortunately I noticed this older PVC pipe register and was able to unscrew the non-anchored cap. Only one item was inside, a business card which was well preserved. Here is in image inside of an image of the tube register. This fellow did not note a date on the back of his card. 

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BTW, Candace, may I post images of your two entries into the paper registry inside of the ammo box on the summit? I enjoyed reading them as well as many others, some of which are rather humorous. 

I'd like to post images of the NPS staff who added entries to the registry but don't know if posting names and dates is "proper" online etiquette? Any advice on this from anyone here is welcome. 

I was disappointed not to find our very own Mojave Geek's entry and I even tried to find it by his "real name."

[Candace66]

OK, I didn't miss much by failing to get the lid off that pipe!     Thanks for the pic.

I don't have any problem with you posting pics of my entries.

Also, I don't think it's an issue to post pics of summit register entries in general.  Summit registers are public, anyone can look at them (though some are harder to reach than others!).  Bob Burd (at snwburd.com) posts lots of pics of summit register entries in his widely-read trip reports.

[DeathValleyDazed]

Happy Halloween! Hope you don't find too many ghosts in Panamint City

Thanks Kauri and I did not experience any ghosts while passing through Panamint City but I did encounter two other men who had just arrived at PC as I was heading back down from Sentinel Peak. This is my second time to PC and the first time I had the entire canyon to myself for an overnighter. At the mouth of Surprise Canyon on my way up there were three other vehicles and upon exiting there were five other vehicles which is almost necessitating valet parking. 

[DeathValleyDazed]

Bob Burd (at snwburd.com) posts lots of pics of summit register entries in his widely-read trip reports.

Candace, thanks for the feedback about posting peak register entries. Listed below are both of yours along with others I snapped images of.

The actual register box on top of Sentinel Peak with Telescope Peak looming in the background.
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Candace setting the record straight as to which of the two Sentinel summits if the higher. I was surprised at how pointed and steep the summit was because from the valley floor it appears more flat and rounded.
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Congratulations on bagging all of these peaks Candace!
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Funny comments about coconuts and wheelchair access. 
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NPS ranger Jeremy Stoltfuz is the regional director of mining and minerals and you see his name in most peak registers in DEVA. 
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DEVA Park Superintendent Mike Reynolds and ranger Tom Arnold are trying to keep up with Jeremy. Candace appears to have them all beat!
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Funny comments about the Navy and Army - note that they appear to be twenty years old. 
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This is one reason by ranger Charlie Callagan is well known and respected. This is the hiking I'd be doing if I had discovered DEVA thirty years ago. 
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[Kauri]

Funny comments about coconuts and wheelchair access. 
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I think Surprise Canyon was closed to vehicle access around 2001, but I could be remembering wrong. So these comments were probably from when folks could drive to Panamint City.

[DeathValleyDazed]

I think Surprise Canyon was closed to vehicle access around 2001, but I could be remembering wrong. So these comments were probably from when folks could drive to Panamint City.

Kauri, great point which did not occur to me even after reading several register comments referring to "coming up from Chris Wicht." I wondered to myself "Who is this Chris Wicht fellow?" Not until my return and googling Chris Wicht did I learn that it's the parking area at the mouth of Surprise Canyon where the old mine works are. Duh!

This then explains why Mike Reynolds and Tom Arnold noted their route commencing at Chris Wicht rather than writing down "from Panamint City." It's cool how well preserved the Sentinel Register notes are after more than twenty years of weather inside that sturdy ammo can. 

BTW, the log/register for hikers at Chris Wicht is well used and does not offer a "check back out option" just noting check offs for various reasons for visiting the canyon. I suppose this is because Chris Wicht is not in DEVA National Park.

[Candace66]

Re my entries...look at those chicken scratches!  

Hopefully my comment about the SW high point will save someone else from worrying that it might be higher!  It's a close call when looking over toward it from the summit, as you may have noticed.   But looking back toward the summit from there, the summit is clearly a bit higher.  As I noted, my GPS indicated over 10' difference.

And, thanks for the compliments! It took me 18 years to climb all the DVNP peaks listed in the "Desert Summits" guidebook, LOL. Telescope Peak was the first one, in April 2002. Then I finally made it up Sentinel in September 2020.