2023-03-05, 06:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-03-05, 06:59 PM by MojaveGeek.)
OK having commented on the park service BS, now back to the hikes.
At last you post stuff I know
Yes, the wires are the Rhyolite - Skidoo telegraph line. You can find a number of traces of it where you were, and there's a bunch of it behind the Mesquite Dunes, and a canyon in the Kit Fox Hills still has some of the poles. It can also be found, along with some broken insulators, heading up toward the Buttes from there. I consider it a fun find
That canyon with the monster fall at the end is very cool, been there. The next one, is that Black Point Canyon? Doesn't look quite right. That one (Kauri turned me on to it) had a rather large dump area near the bottom, and one or two stumps of poles, and then some very scenic semi-travertine falls higher up, but I did not see evidence of bridge potential going up either of the higher forks. It is scenic and a nice destination in the SPW area.
The view of Tucki is super for showing the snow line. I don't think I've ever seen so much snow so low Lots of snow there, and in the Cottonwoods.
Finally, Pothole, aka Miracle Max. Yup, Kauri's got the TR on how to get above the falls, but she talked me out of it ages ago Made it in to the Potholes last year. As you say, the last part is not so exciting and you're just about ready to write off the day as a bust, when you round the corner and... Oh!
We thought it looked like a Picasso face. Pretty awesome.
Thanks for the eye candy, the memories, and the warnings.
At last you post stuff I know
Yes, the wires are the Rhyolite - Skidoo telegraph line. You can find a number of traces of it where you were, and there's a bunch of it behind the Mesquite Dunes, and a canyon in the Kit Fox Hills still has some of the poles. It can also be found, along with some broken insulators, heading up toward the Buttes from there. I consider it a fun find That canyon with the monster fall at the end is very cool, been there. The next one, is that Black Point Canyon? Doesn't look quite right. That one (Kauri turned me on to it) had a rather large dump area near the bottom, and one or two stumps of poles, and then some very scenic semi-travertine falls higher up, but I did not see evidence of bridge potential going up either of the higher forks. It is scenic and a nice destination in the SPW area.
The view of Tucki is super for showing the snow line. I don't think I've ever seen so much snow so low Lots of snow there, and in the Cottonwoods.
Finally, Pothole, aka Miracle Max. Yup, Kauri's got the TR on how to get above the falls, but she talked me out of it ages ago
Made it in to the Potholes last year. As you say, the last part is not so exciting and you're just about ready to write off the day as a bust, when you round the corner and... Oh! We thought it looked like a Picasso face. Pretty awesome.
Thanks for the eye candy, the memories, and the warnings.