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NV Southern Nevada

NV Southern Nevada

Southern Nevada

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Hackberry Springs Pictographs

Hackberry Springs Pictographs

Late in 2021, I met up with my hiking buddy Wayne and we went out to find a pictograph site in the Mormon Mountains Wilderness of Southern Nevada. Hidden in a limestone canyon are two alcoves with pictographs (and a faint petroglyph or two) on their walls. Some of the

Picture Canyon Pictographs

Picture Canyon Pictographs

Well-named Picture Canyon floated to the top of my list of places to go in late 2021. Hikers have rediscovered this canyon at the southern end of the Sheep Range (and inside of the Desert Wildlife Refuge) in recent years in their search for missing long-distance hiker Kenny Veach. He

Culverwell Mine

Culverwell Mine

Back in 2017, I had a fun time poking around this old cabin and mine out in Nevada’s Great Basin. The Culverwell was also called “History Repeats”. It shipped some gold and silver ore in 1933. The cabin appears to have been lived in as recently as the 1980s

Southern Nevada Mine

Southern Nevada Mine

The Southern Nevada Mine was an early mine in the Searchlight District and started out with the Spokane Shaft in the 1900s. In the first few years, the miners encountered water at 200 ft depth and abandoned the Spokane Shaft. They started working on the Blossom Shaft a half mile

Oakland Mine

Oakland Mine

The Oakland Group of mines never produced much. The mines were worked for gold from 1922 to 1934. A vertical shaft is reported to have gone down to at least 75 ft with drifts and a separate incline shaft that dropped to 85 ft. Water was encountered at these depths

Crescent Peak Arrastra

Crescent Peak Arrastra

I visited a fairly modern arrastra in Southern Nevada in 2019. It is mostly intact with the drag stones still in place. That is a rare find! The district was worked prehistorically for turquoise but there are some small gold deposits here. A shallow shaft and other prospects are behind

Super Cave Pictographs

Super Cave Pictographs

This is a sandstone rock shelter in southern Nevada with an interesting assortment of pictographs. Native American Southern Paiute and Mohave made their homes here and either could have made these markings. The site itself looks like it could have been a small encampment above a wash. I explored a