Echo Canyon

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OK, just to be clear, DAW, is that the location marked Schwaub (site) on the topo?  Looking at the views, I am guessing it is.  And if so you've got more patience for finding stuff on the ground than I, and what I said earlier is incorrect.  I admit I was more interested in making it to Winters Peak and seeing nothing standing I guess we didn't look very  hard.

Yes, it is. It’s about midway on the old road up that branch of Echo Canyon, between where it used to branch off the current road and the one coming over from the Inyo Mine. The canyon opens up into a wide area where several canyons converge; and what I think was one of the main streets is toward the northwest side of the wide area.

However, the others and myself found cans, stone tent floorboard supports, rotted lumber and glass all throughout the wide area. The wood lined cellars and large stone abutments were found on the shelf only. We didn’t go to any of the visible mines on the hillside, except one at wash level on the south east side of the wide area near where the old road made its way down from the current road going over to Amargosa Valley.

We were there in May, 2000. We stayed only about an hour at the site, for Alan Patera was getting a heat migraine headache (it was only in the 80s, but he is from the Portland area and wasn’t used to such temps yet), Alan Henscher was wearing only flip-flops and stayed around where the old road entered the confluence.

We didn’t expect to find much at Schwab, given its very brief life and the fact that it didn’t progress beyond the tent camp stage, with possibly one or two wood cabins.

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Speaking of Schwaub, we accidentally found ourselves there while looking for something else last year! Looks exactly the same. I've heard there's a grave there somewhere, but we never found it.

I stumbled upon it on the way down along the old, closed road. It was right where the old road entered a wide area where several canyons converge and on the eastern side of that wide open area. It was a simple wooden cross engraved with “Death Valley Victim - 1907.” Likely created by a visitor in the last 50 or so years from pieces of scrap wood, which are found throughout the wide open area.