[mayormcmatt]

Hearing your description really makes me want to visit and experience the...dread? Similarly was a motorcycle ride I took through the Searles Valley and the town of Trona, much further north of there and near Death Valley. What an unreal setting that place is.

[pram]

Yeah it's worth a trip I think. Palm Springs/Mount San Jacinto is also on the way (from LA) you can knock it all out in a single day.