#amargosa Road

[gabrieldespinoza]

Coroner Identifies 22-Year-Old Victorville Man Killed in Crash on Amargosa Road Saturday

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (VVNG.com) – The San Bernardino County Coroner has identified a man killed in a crash on Amargosa Road as 22-year-old Abel S. Navarrete, a Victorville resident Abel’s wife, Angelica, has initiated a GoFundMe campaign to cover funeral costs and other unexpected expenses following the fatal crash. The incident was reported near the intersection of Amargosa Road and Ramada…

[thorsenmark]

Set Free on the Open Road Ahead by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north while taking in views at a roadside pullout along California State Route 127. I liked the idea of a long, straight stretch of highway to my front and wanted to capture that with an image. I decided to squat down and have a focus point a little down the road to ensure more of the image was kept in focus. Other things I kept in mind were attempting to align myself with the center stripe and angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring the mountains higher into the image. I think all that helped to bring out more of a sense of grandeur with the look down the highway.

[autotrails]

American Auto Trail-Death Valley National Park (Part 1) (Death Valley Jct to Furnace Creek Ranch CA)

American Auto Trail-Death Valley National Park (Part 1) (Death Valley Jct to Furnace Creek Ranch CA) https://youtu.be/O1No9NxMA3A Part 1 explores from Death Valley Junction, traveling into Death Valley National Park through the Eastern entrance.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Lawsuit Aims to Help Amargosa Voles

The Center just sued the Bureau of Land Management to protect highly imperiled Amargosa voles from unmanaged human activity in their protected critical habitat. Off-road vehicles, unattended campfires, and people using the marshy lands for toilet functions have severely degraded the mouselike animals’ tiny remaining range — near a popular hot spring outside Tecopa, California.

[usaccidents]

VICTORVILLE, CA (June 30, 2024) – Elizabeth Faamaligi was killed in a three-vehicle accident in Victorville Thursday afternoon on June 27.

[travelinghobby]

Get MAJOR speed on Nevada's Amargosa Big Dune

If the word off-roading makes you go 🤩 plan your next trip to Nevada and hit up Amargosa Big Dune with Sun Buggy. Prepare for major speeeeed 🏎️💨 Tag your bravest travel bud to let ’em know it’s time to hit the dunes. For other exciting adventure activities in Nevada, find out more here: https://youtu.be/40E-7Q1OfFQ #lonelyplanet #nevada #amargosa #bigdune #summervacation #offroading #traveltips

[yoori-ya]

Death Valley Scraps - D1.

[Stitching together this weekend.]

I.

We were driving into a storm on our way into Death Valley. Fat quarter-sized drops of rain splattered against the windshield as we cut through the desolate landscape, through sparse towns that were either already dead or dying. The road beneath us grew narrower and rougher with every turn we hung.

"I feel like we're running away somewhere," J said.

"Our disappearing act," I replied.

Friends on the east coast always go on about the trees and the foliage, how lush it is, how they love nature and The Seasons. My gaze swept over the surrounding landscape, over the scrublands and the Amargosa Range rising ahead of me, their shoulders soaked dark with rain, raw and barren. The desert is harsh and inhospitable, but there is an alien beauty here that is raw and undeniable. It's in the mountains' strange striations, in the overwhelming expanse, in how even with a direction in mind you feel lost, adrift in the emptiness. The landscape a little frightening, a little lonely to travel through, and still, absolutely breathtaking.

II.

Maybe the absolute absence of life brings my own into sharp focus. There were a few moments where it was easy for me to imagine being the last soul on the planet. What would be left of me? I wondered, but found myself pushing the thought away. Maybe another time. A dark little rabbit hole I was keen on skirting around.

III.

When I came with A last year, we explored the desert under the glare of the a white hot sun and empty blue skies. As I sat on top of the dunes, I watched the rain clouds snagged on the jagged edges of the valley's rim in the far distance. I thought about how I had preserved this place my memories: the sand soft and warm, the way my body had slowly sank into it. The sand beneath me now was cold and hard, compacted from the earlier rains. This place was so different under a ceiling of gray clouds.

My thoughts drifted to my old story about Roy who wandered through space and time, leaving everything behind in the name of freedom and adventure. How he had travelled eons to surf diamond dunes on that made-up planet just because. I loved that story, but I could never quite get that part about him and Anise right. I grabbed a fistful of the sand and watched as the grains trickled from my hands. I should finish that one, I thought.

[whitepolaris]

Deep into the Valley of Death We Go

Perhaps Death Valley’s name is what gives the land its sinister, otherworldly reputation. Certainly, the searing heat and the moonscape panoramas also contribute to the mystery that surrounds the park. 

And of course there are the legends. Tales tell of rotting wagons and gingham dress-clad skeletons half buried in the shifting sands, of the fabulously rich Lost Gunsight Mien and Breyfogle’s elusive gold vein. 

A more macabre mythology has taken hold in the wake of serial killer Charles Manson’s capture here in 1969. Manson retreated to Death Valley with his gang of killer flower children after two bloody nights of slaughter that he hoped would set off a cataclysmic race war. An adherent of a variety of occult doctrines, Manson believed that Devil’s Hole, a deep, water-filled cavern on Death Valley’s Nevada side, was the portal to an underground world where he and his followers could wait out the apocalypse, reemerging as leaders of a purified world. But he was arrested before he could figure out how to get his band through several feet of hot, salty water that had drowned two skin divers just a few years earlier. 

Manson may have learned of the underground world from a story of Tom Wilson, a Cahroc Indian who was a Death Valley guide in the 1920s. Wilson said that he had found a tunnel that extended for miles beneath the valley. Walking its length, the man ended up in an underground chamber where a race of fair-skinned people dwelt. The people spoke a strange foreign language, whose clothes made of leatherlike substance, and illuminated their home with a pale greenish yellow light of unknown origin. 

The Indian eventually resurfaced and returned to his people, who were skeptical about his adventure. But Tom Wilson believe that the old man hadn’t lied, and he spent the rest of his life searching for the entry to this underground world. At one point, he teamed up with a prospector named White, who claimed that he too had found a strange underground dwellings in Death Valley. 

White’s story was that he had been exploring an abandoned mine in Wingate Pass when he fell into a hidden tunnel that led to a series of rooms that were filled with leather-clad human mummies. Gold bars and other fabulous treasures were stacked in piles around them. There was a passageway leading beyond the rooms as well, lit by an eerie greenish yellow light. White dared not explore any farther, fearful of what might lie beyond. 

He visited the rooms three more times, once with his wife and once with another prospector. But he was unable to locate the cavern later, when accompanied by Wilson and a group of archaeologists. The area around Wingate Pass was eventually absorbed into the China Lake Naval Weapons Center and is now closed to the public. 

But other mysteries sites in Death Valley are still accessible. One is the Amargosa Mountains, in the southeast corner of the valley. Years ago a desert rat was driving through this range in his Jeep when he came to a group of boulders blocking the road. He parked his vehicle, found a narrow pass between the rocks, and walked down into a sandy valley, where he saw about thirty wooden buildings half covered by sand dunes and laid out like a planned community. 

The explorer went inside some of the buildings and found wooden tables set for meals, brass candlesticks, scraps of cloth, and even an empty picture frame on the wall. There were no human remains, and no signs of violence or natural disaster. 

No ghost turns were known to exist in these arid mountains. Whether the unnamed explorer had really located a lost community or was just spinning a tall tale has never been determined. 

[freetheshit-outofyou]

My one and only B-1 story. I was on leave driving from Reno back to Fort Bragg, NC, I was between Beatty and Amargosa Valley on hwy 95 Just before Big Dune. I hear this rumble and I am thinking something is grossly wrong with my 82' Bronco. I'm looking everywhere to see if there is smoke or liquids pouring out behind me, nothing. Looking off to my south towards Big Dune I see a B-1 maybe 1/2 mile out just a few hundred feet off the ground and I thought damn that is cool, but this freaking rumble is getting so loud I just know the engine is going to blow. I'm frantic becasue breaking down in that area in the 90's in the summer with no cell phone is really bad. Then a shadow covers the road and me and just a few hundred feet above me another B-1 slides over me and scared the shit out of me. It went another mile down the road then both of them gained attitude and were gone.

[gabrieldespinoza]

Family Establishes GoFundMe for Man Killed While Crossing Amargosa Road in Victorville

VICTORVILLE, CALIF. (VVNG.com) — Michael Pont, a 42-year-old local homeless man, was fatally struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Amethyst Road and Ironstone Ave on February 9th. Emergency services were called to the scene at around 8:01 p.m., where they found Mr. Pont with critical injuries. Despite the Victorville Fire Department and the Victorville Police Department’s efforts to save…

[thorsenmark]

Set Free on the Open Road Ahead by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north while taking in views at a roadside pullout along California State Route 127. I liked the idea of a long, straight stretch of highway to my front and wanted to capture that with an image. I decided to squat down and have a focus point a little down the road to ensure more of the image was kept in focus. Other things I kept in mind were attempting to align myself with the center stripe and angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring the mountains higher into the image. I think all that helped to bring out more of a sense of grandeur with the look down the highway.

[the69thdimension]

Death Valley Jct, CA Agfa Vista 200 // La Sardina

[backroadsandbyways]

death valley junction

the amargosa opera house

[noticiasaccidentes]

La entrada Hombre herido en accidente de motocicleta cerca de Amargosa Road y Luna Road [Victorville, CA] apareció primero en Abogados de Accidentes Ahora .

[usaccidents]

VICTORVILLE, CA (June 28, 2024) — Two people were seriously injured in a multi-car accident on Amargosa Road near Eucalyptus Street.