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   @douglasvb @ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn This may be a victim of reliance on GPS. Sure, it's a road. Not for low-profile tires. What a mess.

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     @ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn yuuuuuuuuuuuup

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     @ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn it's blocking the road so I would think they would close the road until it was pulled out. We were able to use our winch to drag my truck over some big rocks to get around it. But a lot of people wouldn't be able to do that.

     Could be it's been there over a month. But it was in pretty good shape still and it powered up when I touched a door handle ( a small pump kicked on under the vehicle like many modern cars do when the car thinks it's about to have someone get in). I don't think the electrical system would still work if it had been there for a month.

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     @douglasvb @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn

     Ooof

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr @cvvhrn I can confirm that its blinker was NOT on 🤣

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     @douglasvb @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn How the heck did it even get that far?!?!?! On those tires?!?!

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     @ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn as the kids say...

     Big bruh moment

     Yeah I've got no idea. It would be not too bad to get it to where Lippincott Pass Road intersects with Saline Valley Road but after that... I guess pedal to the metal until you get so stuck there's no way back.

     They got stuck in the low point on the road.

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     @douglasvb @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn

     Potentially there since January 11, but that's only from squinting hard at the Planet satellite photo for changes. Tough to say for sure. Typically, a rescue of someone there and a thrashed BMW like that would make their news page; no such mention. The car-shaped shadow there does not show in the Jan 10th image. I'd think the NPS would have put a press release out showing that (typically) telling people not to do stupid things like that... but perhaps they are understaffed.

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     @douglasvb @cvvhrn LOL did they ever find the owners of that said BMW?

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     @ai6yr @cvvhrn I didn't find the owners and regional dispatch isn't going to tell me anything. So hopefully someone found them and hauled them out a day or two ago.

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     @douglasvb @cvvhrn 😱 👀

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     @ai6yr @cvvhrn they couldn't have made it in since the snow so I think it's been there at least two days. Maybe more.

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     @douglasvb @cvvhrn "Douglas, Finder Of Lost Vehicles"

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     @ai6yr @cvvhrn and occasionally other lost things

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     @ai6yr @cvvhrn I called Inyo County dispatch but they only had one person working tonight and they had an involved 911 call so they asked me to call CHP up in Bridgeport to report the vehicles. I dutifully did so and hopefully the CHP dispatch relays that information to DVNP tomorrow.

     They've got my call back number. I wouldn't be surprised if I get a confused call from a trooper tomorrow morning wanting more details.

     I was specific that they didn't need to send anyone out tonight to those vehicles. If anyone was out with them, they're probably already dead at this point 😬 No point in having some troopers get stranded in the snow overnight.

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     @douglasvb @cvvhrn 😬

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     @ai6yr @cvvhrn maybe you can find wherever these incidents get logged and follow its progress tonight and into the next few days 😅

     That BMW is only coming out on a flatbed wrecker.

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     @douglasvb @ai6yr @cvvhrn

     Well, that’s one way to keep those kind of assholes from speeding

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     Douglas (douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:37:42 JST Douglas

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     @cvvhrn @ai6yr I would suggest against it on Lippencott Road. We found an utterly destroyed BMW SUV abandoned about a mile from the intersection with Saline Valley Road. I'll post photos of that later.

     But assuming no snow you could absolutely do Saline Valley Road.

     Oo I think we will do Barker Ranch on Saturday. Any tips for that?

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     FreddyB Aviation Photography (cvvhrn@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:37:43 JST FreddyB Aviation Photography

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     @ai6yr Manzanar is such a bleak and haunting place where we allowed fear and xenophobia to incarcerate innocent people in a concentration camp. Visiting it should be mandatory

     We are walking that path again: Never forget and never allow

     I often think of little Midori who spent her only day on this planet in captivity. I am truly sorry

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     @cvvhrn @ai6yr I think we're going to go to Manzanar tomorrow if it's open.

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     @douglasvb @cvvhrn I see you did not get trapped in Death Valley when they turned off power, lol

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     @ai6yr @cvvhrn lol no I knew about that days in advance. Anyway we didn't even drop down to Furnace Creek or Stovepipe Wells. Or even Panamint Springs. We went on the ultra back roads today 😅

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     @douglasvb @ai6yr oooooh. 2016 MDX capable? I can easily get up the Goler Wash to the Barker Ranch in my MDX

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:37:44 JST AI6YR Ben

     The Seattle Times: 84 years after Executive Order 9066, we are repeating history

     "...Eighty-four years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal and mass incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II...."

     https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/84-years-after-executive-order-9066-we-are-repeating-history/

     #history #racism #immigration