{"id":5507,"date":"2015-01-24T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2015-01-23T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:50:02","slug":"death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/death-valley\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to join Jeff and Janet, an Alaskan couple who wanted discover some places of the Death Valley and preferred to do it in two vehicles. But before that, I installed the new compressor of VivaLaVida.
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\n1. Beautiful sky over Arizona strip.
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\n2. ARB was kind enough to replace the compressor with a new one, the previous being his fourth failure. Thanks to them.
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\n3. To try to prevent this from happening again, I installed a \u00ab\u00a0house made\u00a0\u00bb air filter which should limit the amount of dust that it swallows…
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\n4. On the road to Las Vegas Where I met my friend Christian for dinner, I heard a big \u00ab\u00a0bang\u00a0\u00bb and the back of VLV sagged while I was driving at 70 mph.
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\n5. A tire suffered a carcass break, probably the result of fatigue of the carcass. Admittedly, these tires have rolled some 10,000 miles of trails at reduced pressure…
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\n6. Met Jeff and Janet in Bed Springs Cabin, a pretty little miners cabin.
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\n7. Saratoga Springs, south of Death Valley. There were a few ducks and a lot of frogs croaking! \ud83d\ude00
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\n8. Arctictraveller going up to Black Magic Mine.
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\n9. Wild donkeys or \u00ab\u00a0burros\u00a0\u00bb, presumably a mother and her young.
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\n10. Late afternoon on the trail to Owlshead Mountains where we spent the night.
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\n11. Diversity of mineral colors is pretty amazing in places.
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\n12. One of the few stone cabinss, the Geologist Cabin.
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\n13. Camp at about 4,000 feet above sea level, near the Striped Butte.
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\n14. Raking light…
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\n15. Striped Butte at sunset.
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\n16. Twilight on this desert of rocks…
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\n17. Jeff & Janet joined me in the night after going to fill Arctictraveller’s tank.
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\n18. Jeff on Mengel Pass tral. It is not very experienced in offroading, I have therefore spoted him on tricky places…
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\n19. There was quite a few steps!
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\n20. And some quite off camber path to…
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\n21. Panamint Valley.
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\n22. Dusk from Lookout City, an old mining town over Panamint Valley.
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\nAnd for a change, here are two videos of VLV in action. Thanksu to Jeff for having sent me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n