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Death Valley-Southern

Southern Death Valley region of California, including the Greenwater, Funeral, Black, Owlhead, and Panamint mountain ranges

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Panamint Wickiup #2

Panamint Wickiup #2

This site had been in the back of my mind for years and years, but it wasn’t until recently that we finally decided to track it down. What a quiet and neat place. It took a couple of trips and a few hours of hiking, but we finally found

Emigrant Canyon Petroglyphs

Emigrant Canyon Petroglyphs

What is truly amazing about this small petroglyph site in Death Valley is that it is in plain view, and people pass by it every day. I didn’t notice it until it was pointed out to me; it is so well hidden in plain sight. It is just off

King Midas Mine

King Midas Mine

I meet up with Dan and Sharon to hike up to the seldom-visited King Midas mine. It was mainly worked around the WWII era, which is a bit later than many of the others in the region. The tramway was a highlight of the hike for me. It is 3,

Johnny Shoshone Spring

Johnny Shoshone Spring

Back in 2012, we visited little-known Johnny Shoshone Spring inside Death Valley National Park. It is a place I’ve been curious about for some time. The spring is not much more than a seep, but what is interesting is that this was a summer camp for Johnny Shoshone, one

Wonder Mine

Wonder Mine

Back in February of 2012, Dan and I did some exploring to see what was left of this old mine. We had known about it for years but finally got around to actually getting up there. The hike was actually farther than we expected, but it was well worth the

Corkscrew Borax Mine

Corkscrew Borax Mine

A few years ago, I met up with some of the guys, and we hiked out to visit the ruins of the old Corkscrew Borax Mine. The mine was worked for colemanite (an ore of borax) in the 1950s by the US Borax Company. Surprisingly, for all of its development,

Three Bachelors Prospectors Camp

Three Bachelors Prospectors Camp

In 2018, we found a small prospector’s camp out in the wilderness of the Death Valley region. I named it because three cabin tent pads are scattered around the site. Interestingly, there isn’t a mine nearby; instead, a few prospects are spread out in the hills. The area