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| My two favorite animals. My dog and my truck... |
I awake in Ballarat to the sight of snow on the argus range. |
The same for the Panamints. |
Surprise Canyon got quite a bit from the looks of it. |
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| This is a Blab Shot! But with snow and clouds almost to the ground... |
A better shot of the snow. |
A mill site at the mouth of Powder Canyon. |
A look down the canyon from the upper ore hopper. |
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| The hopper drops it's ore through a raisable chute into a jaw crusher. The chute is raised and lowered by the outrigger above. |
After being deposited into another hopper the ore is delivered down to this room which most likely contained concentrators and other milling equipment. |
Some of the bases for the equipment that used to be here. |
Another view of the upper ore hopper. It looks as though someone has been restoring it. Some of the bolts and the chute are new. |
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| More equipment stands lie about a colapsing shed. |
The cianide tanks and tailings dump. |
See the tram station up in the distance to the right? |
The tiniest ore bin we have ever seen. The Blazer lends some scale. Even the chute coming down from the tiny tunnel is small. |
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| Looking back down the canyon. |
Another view of the tiny ore bin and it's tiny chute leading up to the tiny little mine. |
A tiny water collector. |
Looking down from the tiny mine we see the tiny covered chute. |
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| Not only were the tunnels short but they all leaned to the left. This comes from walking on burro trails for too long. |
Dan demonstrates the smileability of the Jeep Rubicon. |
A little below the mill site we explore some stacked stone fences most likely used to hold burros and other lifestock. |
More stacked stone ruins. Storage or living quarters? |
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| We find an arrastre with the bottom stones turned up. Few arrastres are found with the bottom stones intact. It is done to retrieve the remaining gold. |
As we leave the canyon we see that the clouds are doing funny and strange things in the sky. This happens a lot in PV and DV. |
oops |
To test the new U Joints I take a trip to the Osborne Canyon and stop to check out a can dump. |
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| Look.. They even threw away a couple of nice boulders! |
Ever seen a rubber jug? Great for drunks who dropped them a lot... Actually it is an old toilet plunger. |
The plunger turned upside down. |
A Yuban Coffee tin. |
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| "REGULAR GRIND" ... "PERCOLATOR or COFFEEPOT" |
A look at the snow that was deposited in the canyon the night before. |
The cabin is nestled among the rocks on the side of a hill. |
A really nice day. Clear and cool. |
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| Beyond the ore bin is an interesting fall of rocks and boulders I have been wanting to see. |
Really neat looking rock. The detailed geology is something I'm still working on. Probably something simple and plentifull like zebra rock. |
The DzrtGrls say the geologists description hurts their heads. |
This little rock cabin has always intrigued me. I wonder what it was used for? It had windows and a heating stove as proven by the stack hole in the roof. |
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| A nice window shot. |
a nice roof shot. |
Hmmm. A nice caving in shot. |
If the walls could speak.... |
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| This rock retained road is washed out to the point of no way to pass even on foot. |
I found this rock sturcture near the bottom of the road. |
A steel leg from s stove that was lying in the area. |
Another nice day in the desert comes to a close as I head back to the camp site for the night. |
