Cerro Gordo trip

I have wanted to visit Cerro Gordo, a ghost town high in the Inyo Mountains, for several years. A fund raising event for Cerro Gordo announced on a Facebook page attracted me to do it this year.

Our first stop on the trip south was Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain where the flower bloom […]

Mojave National Preserve

Even though we visited the southern California desert last month, there were still locations I wanted to visit so I embarked on a solo trip to the Mojave National Preserve. In my research with Google Earth I had located a number of mines and mine cabins.

The Evening Star mine was the first one I […]

Red Rock Canyon State Park

We left Lone Pine and headed for home, but first drove out Pine Canyon to see if I could find the crash site of the “Wild Child”, an Aero Vodochody L-39 jet. Just a little way up the canyon I encountered a locked gate so I went back to the nearby Jawbone Canyon visitor center. […]