On a trip in 2005, we were hiking through the thick Sierra Nevadan Forest in search of an old mine with a long tramway. It turned out to be a bit of a longer hike than we thought it would be, and we weren’t seeing a tram.
Instead, we found this little mining camp. There is not much here except an abandoned cabin and a nice ore car. We poked around the camp briefly, but the sun was going down, so we hiked back to our campsite. We never did find that old tramway. I need to wander around the forest some more. The cabin was all locked up when we visited, and we stayed out.
A reader tells me that a bear tore open the cabin in 2020. The ore car is gone as well.
Photos courtesy of Brad S.
