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Golden Bear Mining Camp

Golden Bear Mining Camp

Back in 2005, Alysia and I met up with Bill, Dan, Lewis and his daughters Sarah and Rachael for some exploring in the Northern Sierra Nevada. We spent a couple of days in the forest exploring mines and jumping into rivers at the end of the day. This is a

Up and Down Mine Cabin

Up and Down Mine Cabin

In 2005, I took a quick trip out to some of the more remote reaches of the northern Death Valley National Park wilderness to check out an old mercury mining site and look for a possible cabin. Not too many people get out in these hills. It was a nice

Echo Canyon Petroglyphs

Echo Canyon Petroglyphs

In 2009, I had a nice hike up this sandy canyon to check out some algae fossils and petroglyphs on limestone bedrock. Not much out here in these lonely hills of eastern Death Valley National Park. GPS

Furnace Mine

Furnace Mine

Not far from the semi-famous Inyo Mine, perched at 4,375 feet on a rocky Death Valley ridge, sits what has become known as the Furnace Mine. If you watch carefully while driving on the road below, you can spot its namesake rusted furnace - a testament to 1940s mining

Fay, Little Buck and Horseshoe Mines

Fay, Little Buck and Horseshoe Mines

On this trip, we were out exploring the Nevada-Utah state line. This beautiful open country of rolling hills and pinyon-juniper woodland is delightful to spend some time in. Thunderstorms chased us around on this trip, but they moved on quickly. The old ghost town of Fay popped up around 1899,

Duke's Camp

Duke's Camp

This is an amazing place. There is a lot to see here, and it took us two trips in 2009 and 2010 to see it all. Since then, we’ve been back quite a few times. There are a few other scattered cabins in the area, but Duke’s Camp

Endowment Mine

Endowment Mine

This fairly remote and old silver, lead, and zinc (with some traces of gold and copper) mine is a pretty neat site. The old camp dates from the 1870s and was reworked in the 1920s. The mine has four levels (not including the adit level) and a few thousand feet