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.
Black Eagle Mine
Outside Joshua Tree National Park and deep within the stark Eagle Mountains, the crumbling Black Eagle Mine, surrounded by its massive neighbor, the Eagle Mountain Mine, is slowly fading into the desert. Its ruins are barely recognizable as the bustling operation they once were.
History
In 1898, a prospector named
Dana Ghost Camp
I did a little solo hike up to the old townsite of Dana, which is high up on Tioga Hill in Yosemite National Park. It was a great short hike along the crest of the Sierras. The views were fantastic, even if the mosquitoes were thick. Dana was the first
Crystal Stanislaus Cave
Hite Cove
Alysia and I went for a hike up to Hite Cove in 2005. We wanted to get out and possibly see some wildflowers and scenery. We weren’t disappointed. We hiked in from where the South Fork of the Merced joins the Merced River at Savage’s Trading Post. The
Bodie Ghost Town
Bodie is one of the most intact remaining ghost towns in the lower forty-eight states. As a California State Park, it is preserved in a state of “arrested decay.” It is kept in its current condition with minimal restoration so visitors can experience what it was like to see
Herman Mine Stamp Mill
In 2004, Alysia and I met up with Lewis, Cat, and Dan to hunt for some old mine ruins nestled deep in the Tahoe National Forest of the western Sierra Nevada. Lewis showed us this great stamp mill hidden deep in the forest. The mine was fairly large at one