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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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Avalanche Stamp Mill
Not it's real name, I came across notes of this stamp mill years ago while doing my normal research. It was a small silver and gold mine with a stamp mill built before 1900. The mill was run by waterpower, and one source mentioned an avalanche destroyed the
Red Lady Pictographs
Back in 2010, we visited a couple of pictograph sites in Joshua Tree. Both of these sites have red female figures in small caves. Finding pictograph sites is good enough, but there is more to these sites.
Gerstley Mine
Prospector Johnny Sheridan lived in a cave with skunks and chuckwallas while he roamed the southern end of the Resting Spring Range in 1922. He discovered borate deposits that year that would launch the Gerstley Mine, which in a short amount of time created a town and required its own
Cottonwood Ridge Petroglyphs
Cane Man Petroglyphs
