Panamint City

[Endless Trails]

@4lowlance, Travis Aragon, Jeremy Rowell, and I hiked to Panamint City this past weekend Feb 27 - Mar 1. We camped at Ballarat Store Thursday night so we could get to the trail head earlyish and rested.

The trail starts up Surprise Canyon where a good portion of the lower 2 miles is spent walking in water. We chose to bring separate shoes to change out of half way up.

There was some tricky sections where you were getting up on the rocks, scrambling up ledges, or trying not to slip and die while hiking straight up the waterfalls. yo know, normal stuff to do with a 40lb pack.

There is water sorces about half way up for refilling your packed water. It looks like it goes dry early but it showed back up probably a half mile later. I got to the dry point and was down to half a liter of the 3 I brought. I back tracked to a point where I could filter some. This is pretty much the last water until the city.

The top 4ish miles is walking in this junk. Not much of a trail or path, just picking the smoothest line through the gravel/sand/rocks.

This is the point where your spirits get lifted again after a few miles of solid class 2 fun / grind. The first view of the chimney which is the bottom of town.

We hiked straight to the Hilton as that was what we could see. We got there, took off the packs, and I set off to find the water source.

This was my Strava for the hike in. This includes my back track and to and from the water source above the cabin.
To be continued...