We encountered one such automobile on one of our hikes up toward Trail Canyon in the Panamint Mountains.
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At first I thought that what looked like a dune buggy had caught on fire and then at some later time gotten pummeled by energetic youths.
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But then we found more debris a little farther up the wash, and it started to look more like the dune buggy had gotten caught in a flash flood and rolled down the hill for several miles and bent up and pulverized in the process,
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leaving behind parts like this.
On later inquiry, we found out that there had been a big flood in 2004 which had washed a bunch of cars downhill at the Furnace Creek Inn whose parking lot is inconveniently located on the bed of a wash
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Picture of a van that was caught in the flood at Furnace Creek Inn. |
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And another car caught in the flood. |
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And another. |
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And another at some unknown location. |
In any case, rain is a rare event in Death Valley, but should you ever be there when it does rain, look out and dont be caught in what is a dry creek bed most of the time except when it rains at which time it becomes a wet creek bed transporting tons and tons of rocks and mud downhill toward the valley floor.
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