What Is This And Where Is This?

[DAW89446]

Across the canyon north from the Skidoo mill ruins. One of the tanks along the bottom appear to show at the lower left.

EDIT: Take a look at ghosttowns.com, Skidoo page. Scroll to the bottom and find a photo with the old company buildings above the mill and a 1958-1960 Thunderbird. Compare the image above it, which shows the same general background as the image with the Chevy.

[TacoLand]

Nice one, DAW. I originally was thinking / wondering if it was when there was a road connecting Aguereberry Point to Trail Canyon, but that was probably just a jeep trail anyway.

This is the image you're referencing, correct?

  

[DAW89446]

Yes. That is the correct photo. That image is looking at a different angle, more northwesterly, than the perspective of Chevy photo. It’s also taken across to the southern side of the canyon that the mill is located.

The Skidoo page on that site has a number of my images, including this one:



I might have the wrong location, but that was my first thought when I saw the Chevy image. I’ll check my images later. I think I’ve even been on that road the Chevy is on if it’s the location I’m thinking.

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This is the general location that I think the Chevy photo was taken.

https://goo.gl/maps/GgwCYMMMKw6vjczy8

Along the road marked Skidoo Road across the canyon slightly northeast from the mill ruin.

[TacoLand]

Here's a screen grab from some quick Google Earth searches of the Skidoo site using your coordinates. I actually found an even more similar image but didn't grab a screenshot.

[DeathValleyDazed]

Here's a screen grab from some quick Google Earth searches of the Skidoo site using your coordinates. 

Wow DAW89446 and TacoLand, you solved this puzzle with your refined DEVA Detective skills. If there was a medal for this I'd bestow one of the both of you. Great teamwork. I was guessing wrong that the location was along the old backroad from Darwin to Panamint Springs Resort but you two nailed it. I suppose the image could have been taken after 1960 but it's most likely taken in 1960 to match the model year of the Impala. Here's a composite image of your findings with the unmistakable background highlighted. The elevations and angles are not exact but close enough. Thank you!

http://www.salamandersociety.com/deathva...Skidoo.png

[DAW89446]

In the GE scene I also caught the light colored disturbed earth immediately surrounding the mill ruin, which is prominent in the lower left of the Chevy photo.

I checked my image collection and the only photos I took from that road that I highlighted on Google Maps were aimed across the canyon at the mill. That was in late November, 2002; I stopped by on the way to meet a friend from Las Vegas at the gate to Ryan, whereupon we set upon a two night and three day exploration of the Greenwater and Gold Valley region. At the time, there were persistent rumors on the grandfather of this forum that the Park Service had removed the mill structure, so I went to check and report. All was intact.

[TacoLand]

Full credit goes to David, I was just happy to be riding shotgun.

[DeathValleyDazed]

I snapped this image myself December 2021:
What the hell is this anyway?

[DAW89446]

Kind of looks like the end of an old boiler.

[MojaveGeek]

Kind of looks like the end of an old boiler.

Right shape and size, but a boiler better be thicker metal than that, else it would blow out under pressure. And the holes... At first I thought "target practice" but they are not bullet holes, they are square, and must have been punched. So some kind of drain / screen?