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Cabins. You might sleep in them, or maybe not. Have you visited them all?

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Old Yard Cabin

Old Yard Cabin

In September 2015, we packed our daypacks full of water and took a long hike traversing a mountain range. We stopped by a few interesting mines and cabins along the way. This was one of the more unique ones. This solitary miner’s cabin was quite amazing. All the household

Chalcedony Cabin

Chalcedony Cabin

On a scorching late spring day in 2015, we journeyed out to a lonely cabin in the central heart of the Mojave Desert. This is a barren landscape of sand and lava. Any roads that once traversed this wasteland were wiped out by monsoonal thunderstorms long ago.

Silver Canyon Cabin

Silver Canyon Cabin

In the summer of 2014, at the end of an exploration trip in the White Mountains of eastern California, we decided to take a little side trip to a cabin I had heard about. From what scarce history I could find on the place, there didn’t seem to be

Sandstone Eagle Cabin

Sandstone Eagle Cabin

We stumbled across this remote cabin back in 2010. Like so many cabins I come across, I haven’t been able to find the history of this one. I call it the Sandstone Eagle Cabin because there is a bit of sandstone nearby, which is quite unusual for the area,

Poinsettia Mining Camp

Poinsettia Mining Camp

Poinsettia was once a cinnabar mine. Reportedly, the mine was worked from 1929 to WWII, but information on it is hard to find, and no production was recorded. It is doubtful much cinnabar was ever mined here. Cinnabar is a primary ore for mercury, which is important in the gold

Harrisburg Flat Cabin

Harrisburg Flat Cabin

Back on a cool April day in 2013, Dan and I hiked out to a little cabin ruin near Harrisburg Flat in the Death Valley backcountry. (Harrisburg Flat is on the way to the old townsite of Skidoo.) These days, nothing much remains of that town or its former rival,

Weather Station Cabin

Weather Station Cabin

After spending the night at one of our favorite places down in Panamint Valley, we drove up into the mountains and parked the truck along the road. We gathered up our gear, packed a lunch, and started our hike into the canyon. We knew we would be gone the rest