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These trips have no directions or GPS waypoints. Some are misnamed on purpose. Typically, someone has asked me not to share the location or real name.
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Striped Butte Fallout Shelter
Was this old mining adit made into a fallout shelter? Maybe it is one of Charles Manson’s secret hideouts? Or the Ballarat Bandit? Perhaps a local resident and miner set it up as an apocalypse bug-out shelter? Maybe it is one of many in the area? Perhaps I know
Angel Canyon Ruin
Newberry Cave Pictographs
Nestled high in the mountains above Barstow, Newberry Cave sits quietly and unassumingly. Caves and pictographs are both rare in the Mojave Desert; this is a unique and amazing place.
The cave was first discovered by locals in the 1930s but wasn’t excavated until 1953 by Dr. Gerald Smith,
Lida Wash Petroglyphs
Song and Star Mines
Not their real names. Morgan, Ric, and I were out exploring the Stanislaus National Forest in 2004, hunting for some interesting mines. These two old steam hoists in separate mines were great and rarely seen out in the wild.
No directions to these sites.
