Wyler Spring Cabin

In February 2011, my friend Ed and I did a long walk out to the Wyler Spring Cabin. The cabin is in a lesser visited corner of Eureka Valley in the BLM’s Piper Mountain Wilderness.

The area had a minor amount of mining and I suspect the cabin was built by a prospector in search of that elusive big strike that dreams are made of.

I couldn’t find much history on this site. That’s OK though, the sheer remoteness of this lonely area makes it attractive.

Wyler Spring Cabin

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Ed getting ready at the trailhead.

Heading into Wyler Canyon.

Nice canyon.

If you look carefully, you can spot a couple small prospects on the slopes. They are called the Lipp Prospects.

Our first view of the Wyler Spring cabin.

A dry fall in the monzonite granite rock.

It is partially built into the hill.

The door is missing.

The hillside has broken through a breach in the back wall.

I can't read this. I think the date is 46.

We couldn't figure out what this is from.

The lonely Wyler Spring Cabin.

Looking down on the cabin.

This might have been for storage.

Frozen water at the small spring behind the cabin.

There is another platform next to the cabin.

We say our goodbyes to the cabin for now.

Hiking out.

Now where did I park again?

We came across this little rock formation.

It is another prospector camp.

Old campfire ring.

I found this miner's coffee cup fashioned from a can and wire around the old camp.