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Mojave Feb-10-2001 -   2002/04/06 | Viewed 91 times this month, last update: 2002/04/06
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My Trip to the Mojave Desert, Feb 10, 2001
My truck was still (is still) new, so we went out to the desert again! I went out saturday to poke arround
and look for new cool stuff. Chris had a SCUBA class he was teaching that night, so Matt and Chris joined me
later that night. Saturday I found the windmill and water troughs you'll see below, and Sunday we went on the
long road following the power lines. I had fun Saturday, but it's better when you have some friends arround
to share the adventure with. Sunday we probably rode over 100 miles of off-road. Some of it by choice, some not.
We planned to take the power line service road from Kelso Dunes to Ludlow on the I-15, then take a long road
due north to the I-40. We made it about half way till we hit a high-traffic rail line. It was up on about 10 feet
of gravel, and neither one of us (Myself in my Rover, or Chris in his Bronco) liked the idea of getting stuck on
rail lines in front of a 2 mile long 80 mile an hour train. So, we turned right, and followed the tracks looking
for a crossing. We found one, about 30 miles down the line. Ugh. That was a long and bumpy ride.
So, we crossed. Back into the "Devil's Playground". A nice, rocky, sandy trail following the power lines again
up over some mountains. Well, the road got more and more sandy, and we finally stopped. (Well, actually, I got stuck,
and after 5 hours of working me out of the deep sand, we turned back. We were about 10 miles from the 40, but that's
10 miles of impassable sand. So, back to the train tracks, and 21 miles of traintracks to Kelso. Then 38 miles to
beautifull down-town Baker. You can only immagine going to the Denny's at Baker, at midnight. Needless to say, we will
avoid doing that again.
Back home. Lots of fun, a couple of problems, but a good weekend none the less. The next weekend we didn't go again,
but the weekend after that we did. (Or will...)
Here's all the pictures.
The two adventurous vehicles. My truck says: Finally, dirt! |
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Bouncy bouncy... Check out the 200 mile ling road we're heading down. |
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I've always wanted to travel one of these rediculously long, straight, off-into-nowhere roads. |
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More road. |
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Still going... |
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Long, boring, but still cool. |
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Off in the distance, you can see the windmill I'm comming up to. I couldn't figure out what it was for! |
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It was for this! Someone put a windmil-powered water pump, storage tanks and pipes to feed a couple of open,
auto-filling water troughs for the critters! From the enourmous amount of Burro crap arround, I would guess they
appreciate it. |
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The main mine shaft at the mine that windmill was next to. I didn't go in there! |
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Same. It looked deep! |
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The outside. Lots of timbers. There was also a verticle shaft leading down from that structure. |
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The windmill. Close-up. It was still working, pumping like mad. |
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The gravel pile outside of the mine. They went DEEP. |
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My truck. |
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More of my truck. Isn't he cool?! |
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Camp, when I got there. It was a little cold. |
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My truck. This picture'll probably go up on my wall. |
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It's so cool! |
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Desert. So calm, quiet. |
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