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Little Whiskey Flat Petroglyphs

Little Whiskey Flat Petroglyphs

This is a small native hunting and habitation site I went to check out. It is along a prehistoric deer migration route. Native Americans set up a long rock wall to use as a blind and channel deer into a canyon where they could ambush them from above. The site

Rio Pinto Arrastra

Rio Pinto Arrastra

We didn't know its history when we found this triple arrastra site. I had guessed that it was built by early Mexican prospectors around the 1860s or 1870s. Since then, I’ve done some research, come across a few old references, and pieced together some history. The arrastras

Petroglyph Butte

Petroglyph Butte

We have visited this site a couple of times over the years. The first time was in 2003 with Cat and Brad. We stopped by again in 2011, and the site looked mostly unchanged. This place is way out in the middle of nowhere. The petroglyphs here are carved into

Merger Mine

Merger Mine

The Bellehelen Merger Mine was a remote gold and silver mine that mainly worked from 1906 to the 1930s and was the principal mine of the district. There was an active camp with a fifty-ton cyanide mill here at one time. Not much is left these days. The mill is

Sanger Mine

Sanger Mine

Dan and I came across this abandoned but modern mine on an exploration trip in 2008. This is Central Nevada, and some mining companies are developing mines out here. It was a nice little find. We explored most of it but probably missed a level or so. GPS

Secret Panamint Tunnel

Secret Panamint Tunnel

In 1991, I found this little mining tunnel high in the Panamint Mountains, west of Death Valley. This adit is unique because it is filled with water and flowstone. It was beautiful inside. Tunnels like this in mines are rare, especially in the desert. Hopefully, the flowstone will continue to

Day Break Camp

Day Break Camp

I met up with Dan in 2006, and we headed out into the great Mojave Desert to try and find an old, little-known camp called Day Break. The camp, also known as Five Points, dates from the 1880s but was most active in the early 1910s. Unfortunately, not much remains