I met up with Dan and Sunshine to hike up to a lesser-visited mine. It was mainly worked around WWII era, which is a bit later than many of the others in the region. The tramway was a highlight of the hike for me. It is 3,000' long and over 1,000' in vertical height. Some of the tram is still here, but at least the power cable is missing. (We saw pieces of a buried cable in the canyon bottom.) The canyon itself is very pretty in that stark, harsh and desolate Death Valley kind of way.
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