Mexican Mine
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.
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Jackrabbit Mine
This mine was worked as early as the 1880s and produced $2.5M dollars before 1906. It continued to be active until 1959. That is a long time, and total production could be as high as $10M, but some of the recorded production is lost to history. That’s a
Newberry Cave Pictographs
Nestled high in the mountains above Barstow, Newberry Cave sits quietly and unassumingly. Caves and pictographs are both rare in the Mojave Desert; this is a unique and amazing place.
The cave was first discovered by locals in the 1930s but wasn’t excavated until 1953 by Dr. Gerald Smith,
Lida Wash Petroglyphs
Lida Wash, in the Palmetto Mountains of western Nevada, doesn't see much traffic. While on our way to another petroglyph site, we spotted these very faint petroglyphs carved into volcanic ash.
The petroglyphs appear to be of the Desert Archaic Abstract style. They blend in very well and
Grass Lake Basin Petroglyphs
Back in 2005, Alysia and I made a brief stop at a petroglyph site high in the Sierra Nevada near Gold Lake.
Petroglyphs in the high country are rare in my experience. And though the site is very small and the petroglyphs are faint, it was an exciting find for
Song and Star Mines
Not their real names. Morgan, Ric, and I were out exploring the Stanislaus National Forest in 2004, hunting for some interesting mines. These two old steam hoists in separate mines were great and rarely seen out in the wild.
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Bristol Silver Mine
This mine is extensive, and we didn't get the chance to explore it all. Most of the ore in this mine was mined from the 1920s to the 1950s, netting millions in profits. The main shaft is over 1,700 ft deep, with greater than thirteen miles of