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Sulphur Dog Mine
Not it's real name, we read about an old mine deep in the forests of Idaho with the remains of a 10-stamp mill and, more interestingly, a "portable" smelter.
Smelters are rare, and it's even rarer to find one deep in the backcountry. And
Cave of the White Orbs
Hidden in the rocks of Joshua Tree is a small pictograph rock shelter called the Cave of the White Orbs. I was asked not to give directions to this location.
Railroad Tie Cabin (Old Womans)
Back in the winter of 2019, my friend JP and I took a hike to a forgotten cabin on the northern end of the Old Woman Mountains out in the Mojave Desert of California. The cabin is inside the Old Woman Wilderness, but isn't a hard hike. It
Royal Beefeater Mine
Stuck on Soda Lake
Oh, so one day, way back in the beginning of 1991, when I was just a young pup, my friend Jim and I were out off-roading in the sand dunes of the Devil’s Playground area out near Baker, California.
We had been roaming around the desert all weekend, but
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