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Cabins

Cabins. You might sleep in them, or maybe not. Have you visited them all?

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Champion Spark Plug Mine

Champion Spark Plug Mine

The Champion Spark Plug mine is quite a place. The deposit was initially found in 1916 by Dr. Joseph Jeffery, a dentist who was looking for better minerals from which to build dentures. However, the minerals he found were actually more valuable as insulators for spark plugs. The Champion Spark

Up and Down Mine Cabin

Up and Down Mine Cabin

In 2005, I took a quick trip out to some of the more remote reaches of the northern Death Valley National Park wilderness to check out an old mercury mining site and look for a possible cabin. Not too many people get out in these hills. It was a nice

Duke's Camp

Duke's Camp

This is an amazing place. There is a lot to see here, and it took us two trips in 2009 and 2010 to see it all. Since then, we’ve been back quite a few times. There are a few other scattered cabins in the area, but Duke’s Camp

Endowment Mine

Endowment Mine

This fairly remote and old silver, lead, and zinc (with some traces of gold and copper) mine is a pretty neat site. The old camp dates from the 1870s and was reworked in the 1920s. The mine has four levels (not including the adit level) and a few thousand feet

Bob and Ward’s Cabin

Bob and Ward’s Cabin

Also known as the Salt Basin Cabin, Bob and Ward’s cabin is a little wooden cabin that is all that remains of a 1920s mining camp in this isolated valley. These days, the cabin is available as a first-come, first-served camping spot and receives many visitors each month. The

Bald Peak Mine

Bald Peak Mine

In 2010, I decided to return to this small mine I had first visited in 2000. It is still a pleasant and quiet hike to this little remote valley. I had come out here before to see a small and seldom visited miner’s cabin. Now, I wanted to see