Outlaw Mine
The Outlaw Mine is one of those places I wanted to go to because it was so remote. I knew there wasn't going to be much left at the site but I still wanted to go and see it. The area is so remote, so desolate. It is one of
John's Camp and the Boulder Cabin
In 1929 the Gold Hill Mine, comprising five claims about a mile west of the Pinto Wye Arrastra in Joshua Tree National Park, was owned by C.H. Wiser and Anvil B. Johns of Rialto, California, and J.A. Johns of San Bernardino. They set up John's Camp nearby to
Porcupine Wash and Ruby Lee Millsite
Down in the southern end of Joshua Tree National Park, the park service has made a trailhead with an open invite to find your own way out to the old mining site of Ruby Lee Mill site and beyond.
The Park Service says the mill dates back to the 1870s.
Hackberry Springs Pictographs
Late in 2021, I met up with one of my hiking buddies and we went out to find a pictograph site in the Mormon Mountains Wilderness of Southern Nevada.
Hidden in a limestone canyon are two alcoves with pictographs (and a faint petroglyph or two) on their walls. Some of
"Quartz Butte" Pictographs
Back in early 2022, I met up with a fellow rock art enthusiast to do a little scouting expedition in the backcountry of Joshua Tree National Park. There is a small pictograph and petroglyph site there that he knew about and we wanted to see if there were any more
September 2022 News
Here are the news and updates since July. It's been a busy couple of months for me personally. I've been busy with home stuff and haven't gotten out like I would have wanted to but that is coming to an end and I'll be headed back out soon.
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El Dorado Mine
James “Chuckwalla Jim” Wilson discovered a rich gold-bearing outcrop of rock in this canyon in 1901. He called it the El Dorado (also spelled Eldorado). Wilson loaded small batches of ore on burros to be processed over at the mill at Pinyon Well, and all the way to an arrastra