Lone Pine Area

Before heading out to the Alabama Hills, we made a stop at the Alabama Hills Café so Karen could get a morning munchie. I miss being able to eat there, but such is the result of celiac disease. We took Movie Road and passed up all the neat stops for arches and views of the […]

Lookout City

The mining camp of Lookout lies on a mountain top in the northern part of the Panamint Valley. Rich deposits of silver were discovered in 1875 and a small mining town quickly developed (50 dwellings, 5 saloons, 2 general stores). A 10-stamp mill and two 60 ton furnaces were processing the ore. Charcoal for the […]

On the way to Lone Pine

After checking out of our motel in Barstow, we drove to Mule Canyon in the Calico Mountains. I had gathered some locations where fossilized insects were found and it was just a short hike to one of them. Of course, there are rocks everywhere and I quickly realized I didn’t know how to identify a […]