Howe's Tank Petroglyphs
I made two trips in search of the petroglyphs at Howe’s Tank. I was close on the first trip but ran out of time just a few ways from the site. I went out a week later with Howe’s Tank as my main goal and found it after
Log Cabin Mine
Situated at 9,600 ft above Mono Lake, this historic gold mine camp has quite the view. That alone is worth the trip up here.
First located in 1890, it wasn't developed until Jim Simpson acquired the mineral rights in 1910. Some of the original miners snowshoed up
Big Bell Mine
The Big Bell mine sits perched on the steep western slope of the Funeral Mountains, approximately halfway between the Keane Wonder and old Chloride Cliff mines, approximately 3,650 feet above Death Valley's floor. Discovered in 1904 during the rush that followed nearby Bullfrog strikes, this gold mine
Southern Eagle Pictographs
The Dzrtgrls led a group of us on a trip to the southern Eagle Mountains to see an area they had been scouting around in. They have made some nice pictograph and petroglyph finds out there, and we have found even more on this trip!
This is an interesting and
Mary's Cave Pictographs
Mary’s Cave, also known as Shelter Rock, is a nice little rock shelter carved out of a volcanic rock formation in the Mojave National Preserve. There is a small tinaja (a depression in the bedrock made by water) next to the shelter in the canyon, which would have held
Counsel Rocks (Womb Rock)
Counsel Rocks, also known as Womb Rock, is a fascinating site inside the Mojave National Preserve in the eastern Mojave desert. The petroglyphs and pictographs are on a handful of large volcanic boulders at the base of a mesa.
What is interesting about this site is that a couple of
Woods Wash Petroglyphs
The Dzrtgrls and I headed to the Mojave desert a few years ago to find a petroglyph and pictograph site. We were not disappointed. This is a large petroglyph site that requires a few miles of hiking. It has thousands of petroglyphs and covers several square miles in a lonely