Dancing Man Petroglyphs
We met up with some friends to poke around a surprisingly nice petroglyph site in an empty corner of the Nevada desert. The black basalt ridge where all the petroglyphs are located doesn’t look like anything special from a distance, but that changes when you get close and hike
Santa Fe Mine
Back in early 2012, Ed and I stopped by a mine in the Santa Fe district near Luning. The old mines in the district were discovered in 1879 and worked on and off until the 1920s. This mine was probably part of a larger group of mines, namely the Luning
Sand Flat Geoglyphs
In October 2010, we visited a very isolated geoglyph way out in the Great Basin desert, all by itself, on a basalt hill. It was an interesting discovery for us. There are some other Native American camps in the area, but no petroglyphs that I could find. But, besides the
Mineral County Single Stamp Mill
In late spring of 2012, I was out exploring the hills around Mineral County in western Nevada with my friend Ed. (We were looking for old mines and cabins, of course.) We stumbled across this old mine site with some colorful tailings while hiking to another mine. We didn’t
1900's Blacksmith Cabin
I met up with my hiking buddy, Ed, in 2012, and we ventured out into the Western Nevada desert. We did a few five-hour hikes to remote and long-forgotten miner’s cabins tucked away in the hills.
There were no roads, heck, there wasn’t even a trail. We went
John’s Wash Arborglyphs
Most of the historical relics I find on my hikes are from the booming mining industries of the early 1900s, which dominated the Nevada landscape, but other activities were going on at the time. Ranching was just as important as mining to the early settlers, and sheepherding was a part