The start of an interesting adventure!
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Dublin Gulch shacks where miners use to live from the early 1900's to the 1960's.
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More living areas.
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The sign out front explains what these were.
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Wetlands in the Death Valley area.
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Small spring fed lakes feeding the wetlands.
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As a result of some dry years, the wetlands have reduced in size, but there is still pleanty of water here.
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Crossing the open desert.
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What use to be an oiled gravel road is now washed out in several places.
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Aproaching a talc mine.
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Now, where to find a parking space?....
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All settled in, time to explore.
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Looks like I missed the photo op....
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Small ore car tressel at the end of a tailing.
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One of the mines (Boy those guys were sure short!).
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Dale by a structure over a vertical shaft.
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A look down the vertical shaft.
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Another view of the front of the mine.
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Mel on his way up to the top of the road.
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There were alot of rough spots to go through.
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Jimbo trying to find a mostly non-existant trail to follow.
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Even with all that weight up top, Jimbo made it with ease.
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Another photo op.
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Off to the next mine.
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Jimbo truckin' up the mountain.
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This was quite the operation in it's day.
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The shutes and the tressels and the sluces went quite a way up the hillside.
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The processing bins collaped under the weight of what was left inside after the mine was abandoned, probably due to some rare rain in the area causing the talk to soak up all the moisture greatly increasing the wieght.
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A mine shaft which was boarded up a short distance inside.
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Dale out on the ore car tressle.
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Dale and Mel on the ore car tressle. I can just see an ore car full of screaming kids careening around the corner of the runaway ore car ride!
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A good perspective of how much of the structure is still here.
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Another mine shaft.
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The cave-in just behind where the guys were standing. Being a talc mine, the tailings are very soft. You can see the sink-holes in the ground above that were created by the cave-in just above where it occurred.
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The ore shutes down to the lower level.
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Dale on another tressle.
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On our way back down the mountain.
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Back through the washout.
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Nothing is too dificult for 'Rocky'!
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The start of Sperry Wash which crosses the Amergosa river 7 times before running up a side canyon.
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Crossing the river in October on a very dry year.
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Running up the side canyon after crossing the old Tonapa and Tidewater railroad grade.
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Road to the China Ranch Date Farm was quite a suprise with all the beautiful greenery and geologic formations in opposition to each other.
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Back at camp, the weather was still perfect. The following day, we would return to my tent blown over and trying to make a run for it because it was sooo windy!
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Off we go to Pahrump.
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"So, where does THIS road take us?"
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On our way up to Wheeler Pass.
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Out of the desert, and into the tree line.
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End of the road (for us at least!). There was a huge iron gate with re-bar spikes sticking out of it to prevent anyone from ramming it open I guess. We were told an old crotchetty lady with a double barrel shotgun would greet us if we chose to ignore the no trespassing signs.
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