2022-12-31, 12:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 2022-12-31, 12:05 PM by Beardilocks.)
Awesome! Thanks for all the history everyone. I’d love to see some photos of that area when it was in use. But it’s rather likely that none exist anymore. Sort of the B-roll from anyones trip to DV in the 30s. Thrown out or lost in a great great grandchild’s attic.
It was odd seeing the road grade so clearly but no tire tracks. Obviously time has filled them in as it will the grade eventually as well. But it had the feeling of something prepared and then abandoned before use. I have some plans to hike more of the old road networks in the main valley there. Both here (SaltCreek/Stovepipe) and Blackwater Wash/Trail Canyon/old extension of West Side Rd. I’ve hiked a few parts of it up at the north end of the Cottonwoods. Always fascinating.
More updates coming later today I hope.
It was odd seeing the road grade so clearly but no tire tracks. Obviously time has filled them in as it will the grade eventually as well. But it had the feeling of something prepared and then abandoned before use. I have some plans to hike more of the old road networks in the main valley there. Both here (SaltCreek/Stovepipe) and Blackwater Wash/Trail Canyon/old extension of West Side Rd. I’ve hiked a few parts of it up at the north end of the Cottonwoods. Always fascinating.
More updates coming later today I hope.
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