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21 Goats Petroglyphs

21 Goats Petroglyphs

Alysia and I had some time to get out, so we went in search of this very interesting panel of petroglyphs. The weather wasn’t cooperating with us on this day in 2011, and we had to wait for a small but very windy snowstorm to pass. We even heard

Jumbled Rock Gulch Petroglyphs

Jumbled Rock Gulch Petroglyphs

Dancing Man Petroglyphs

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

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

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

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

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