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| Owens - Panamint Valley Loop (Jan 28-30, 2014) | |
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| Entrance to the Estelle Tunnel (about 10 or 11' wide by about 8 or 9' feet high for the 3500' I went in) |
Weird fluffy white deposits prevalent at least near the start of the tunnel (a light breeze and it's gone) |
| The Estelle Tunnel took 15 years, from 1908 to 1923, to blast a horizontal tunnel in a mile and a half to look below the Morning Star Mine whose surface was about 1800' higher in elevation. At about 7600' in they found a silver vein. Fluffy deposits look like they are minerals being leached out and deposited up to three inches or more long. http://explorehistoricalif.com/cerro_mining.html | |
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| Sage Flats camp (I got up to wash my face, when I came back to bed someone had taken my place) Mya | Sierra behind the Alabama Hills at Lone Pine (Including distant Mt Whitney right of center) |
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| Ace Co-Generation Facility at the mouth of Revenue Canyon (Argus Range - Panamint Valley) | Mine at the end of the road in Revenue Canyon |
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