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21 Goats Petroglyphs

21 Goats Petroglyphs

Alysia and I had some time to get out, so we went in search of this very interesting panel of petroglyphs. The weather wasn’t cooperating with us on this day in 2011, and we had to wait for a small but very windy snowstorm to pass. We even heard

Jumbled Rock Gulch Petroglyphs

Jumbled Rock Gulch Petroglyphs

Dancing Man Petroglyphs

Dancing Man Petroglyphs

Bennettville Ghost Camp

Bennettville Ghost Camp

Bennettville (once called Tioga) was a small mine camp in the high Sierra with that typical ghost town story of boom and bust of a big strike that never panned out. History Part of the Tioga Mining District, Bennettville was built to support one mine, the Great Sierra, and its

Golden Crown Mine

Golden Crown Mine

The Golden Crown mine is up at 10,640 ft along the Sierra crest in Yosemite National Park. The hike to get up there is a nice 3.7 mile and 950 ft hike to the mine right at Mono Pass. The views of Mono Lake from this high vantage

Santa Fe Mine

Santa Fe Mine

Honeycomb Stamp Mill

Honeycomb Stamp Mill

We stopped by to check out this three-stamp mill made by Merralls Mill Co. in the western Sierra Nevada. It is a neat find. You don’t see many three-stamp mills around.