The Amazing Trona Pinnacles in the Mojave Desert, California
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2023
- The Pinnacles are located twelve miles south of Trona in Searles Valley, not far from Death Valley. When you leave the highway, you still have five miles to go before you come down to the main parking lot. The dirt road is rough and can be hard for a regular car, since you have to drive thru loose sand. But, if you make it then you will experience a wonderful place, especially early mornings or just before the sunset. The tufa pillars were created 10,000 to 100,000 years ago.
Our crew was favorite of NACC . We finished job early . Inspector from Oklahoma was there with his bananaometer yet to test mil . We always surpassed 20 on every test . He said we were best crew he ever saw . I started on hole watch , but eventually made my boss put me on sandblasting and solvent prep and epoxy rolling . Great times
So I am glad your are enjoying it . I fell in love with that desert in early 90’s . When driving back to hotel in RidgeCrest , try turning off lights to experience complete blackness
Excellent vid, thanks for sharing this. I know you didn't like your timing but you were there at a great time of day, it is such a cool place.
Beautiful! Wonderful of you to document this for us. I can't believe it, I drove up that road past Trona last year, had no idea they were there! Next time.
You have to put that on your list!
Sunset is the best time!
Very nice portrayal of the Pinnacles, Trona can seem quirky to folks that don't know the history, but it worth exploring the place and the history. This is a slice of America that only exists now in the history books.
Where you were standing, looking towards Trona you were surrounded by Military installations both known and unknown. Those on the map, and those you only find when you run up against the fences that state you can be shot on site for trespass.
If you are ever back there, you should camp overnight, the night sky is unreal, even with the light and particle pollution coming from LA. You will absolutely see things you can not complain.
Thank you for the Video, I enjoyed seeing a part of where I grew up again.
I like the place! A wild and different place!
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It’s the Searles Dry lakebed . I worked many shutdowns at North American Chemical . Is the Trona Yacht Club still there . Used to go there for pitchers at lunch . It was classic
Scariest time was inside 50 foot high carbonator . Installing industrial flake on roof . Extremely flammable. Had to lock out ever shift in case of explosion . So we’re applying flake with trowels and open hatch above to ventilate . Then a welder who didn’t know we were in there started preping outside roof with Jack hammer . We screamed at him . Flash fire would have killed us all . But we got job done . Closest I ever came to getting killed . Tank liners don’t have long life spans
Great place for astrophotography!
My father taught school in Trona after WW2.
Great! I know they have a few schools there!
Thank you for uploading. The Mohave to me is a interesting place. The vastness and clear sight of moutain ranges. The animal surviving there. It is also making me sad. Since it shows us a landscape near to becoming a dead desert. The last cry of a landscape that could have been full of life, yet is not. Serving me as a warning to what other places might become like. Still I understand the beauty you see in it.
Dude it’s calcium that created those pillars from deep under water 1 million years ago . Eventually turning into limestone . Searles Lake use to be enormous . Like Salton sea , celebrities use to vacation their . Hence reason why Searles Lake / Trona Yacht Club came into business
Great. Those tufa pillars are just amazing!
We recoated the brackish water tank in early 90’s . I million gallons . Blasted with coal slag and coated with epoxy interior . 5 story high scaffolding. A crew came in and constructed scaffolding in one day . They flew in by helicopter. Dudes were monkeys . No safety harnesses to slow them down
Couldn’t be any different than Sweden eh ?
And yes Trona is gateway to Death Valley . Most desolate land in country .