Mahogany Flat road graded

[DeathValleyDazed]

If you look at the Panamint City page on ghosttowns.com you will see my photos from an overnighter in 1997. There’s also winter photos taken at some point before the 1984 flashfloods because the contributor’s stock Chevy Blazer is seen parked in town.

Hey DAW, thanks for the wonderful images and link suggestion. Next time I'm up there your images will help fill in the gaps of my imagination.

[DAW89446]

A photo given to me by the leader of a group of Panamint City land and mine owners. You can see how easy it was for a major flashflood to remove the road base in here.

[DeathValleyDazed]

You can see how easy it was for a major flashflood to remove the road base in here.

Great vintage image that I have just copied to carry with me the next time I'm up Surprise Canyon so I can find the same location and take an overlay image from the present for comparison. I've saved many vintage images from around the park to complete the same overlay process I hope of making a fun video-film roll of these images. 

BTW - Both of my times to Panamint City were way too rushed so next time I'd like spending several days exploring the side canyons and mine works.

[TacoLand]

I've never been up to Panamint City ... kind of amazed that road from the photo dated 1946 lasted all the way until 1984. Is that correct?

Flash floods seem such a "regular" occurrence in the area that I'm surprised it lasted that long, though I don't know to topography of the area either.

[DAW89446]

You can see how easy it was for a major flashflood to remove the road base in here.

Great vintage image that I have just copied to carry with me the next time I'm up Surprise Canyon so I can find the same location and take an overlay image from the present for comparison. I've saved many vintage images from around the park to complete the same overlay process I hope of making a fun video-film roll of these images. 

BTW - Both of my times to Panamint City were way too rushed so next time I'd like spending several days exploring the side canyons and mine works.

I think it was taken near the top of the falls. I believe that hill in the background is the one that the road climbs and angles across the base to Limekiln Springs. At this point I’m going on memory here, as I don’t think I have any surviving images. Over the past couple of decades I’ve scanned then tossed a lot of hard copy photos of mine, but also tossed a lot of them without scanning.

There is a note on the image indicating somebody thinks the photo was taken in Titus Canyon. But in the areas that road is narrow, the walls are sheer and considerably higher. And note the water running in the gravel. There’s no water running down the Titus Canyon road in such quantities. The water nearly always runs in Surprise.