Silver Lake and Iowa Mines
This was a really fun place to visit for me and one I’ve been trying to get to for some time. Weather makes it hard to get to most of the year, and you have to climb up to the mining camp at 12,200 ft elevation.
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Big Eye Mine
Winter is a great time to be in the southern deserts of Arizona, and this time, we had our sights set on the Big Eye Mine down at the south end of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge and the Castle Dome Mountains.
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Ascending Sheep Pictographs
We found an amazing set of Barrier Canyon Style pictographs in the Utah desert. The panel consists of an animal spirit figure surrounded by bighorn sheep and two amorphic figures on the right.
In the center of the panel, the animal spirit figure is a composite of a bighorn sheep’
Blue Sun Pictograph Cave
My friend Don Austin coined the name "Blue Sun Cave." The Kumeyaay people once lived here. And even though there is no water nearby, the shelters created by the massive granite boulders provided a welcome home in this harsh desert.
The pictographs are considered to be the La
Spoked Wheel Geoglyph
At the end of a long day exploring pictographs around the badlands of Anza Borrego, we made one last stop – the Spoked Wheel Geoglyph.
This ceremonial site is a twenty-foot diameter rock alignment consisting of two circles with spokes connecting them. A native trail runs nearby.
The spirit of the
Victory Mine
In 2017, Boxy and I revisited this interesting little tungsten mine out in central Nevada. I first visited this mine in 2002.
It was originally discovered in 1945 by W. L. Sovy, Jack Southerland, and Albert Brown. In 1949, it was purchased by J. S. Dougan and associates, who formed
Monolith Alcove Pictographs
In early 2016, I met up with DarthJenni and JP to do some exploring in the backcountry of Joshua Tree. We went on a slightly longer-than-normal hike into a seemingly endless maze of granite boulders, arches, and spires. It was almost enough to get lost in.
We wandered through an