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Mine Exploring

Warm Spring Canyon is great bang for your buck!

Kaiser Hot Spring – Burro Creek Mine

2020-01-09 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

2019 was a tough year for me in terms of consistently getting out for ‘away hikes’, so after hiking the Black Canyon Trail last week, […]

Blue Dick Mine / Dick Dale(1937-2019): "The King of the Surf Guitar"

Blue Dick Mine

2019-05-03 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

It’s starting to get warm down here in Phoenix, so I sent a twitter DM to my hiking & mine exploring buddy, @Prescottstyle (Paul), asking if […]

Looking out the window of Poison Well tank, towards Woolsey Peak.

Buckeye Copper Mine 2

2019-02-28 Mine Exploring, Off Roading 0

I was thinking of heading back out to the Dripping Spring Mountains, on the undefined border of Gila County & Pinal County, for some more […]

Big Stick Mine Exploration

2019-01-25 Mine Exploring 0

I originally meant to explore Big Stick Mine last year, on the same day I explored the adjacent Weepah & Homestake Mines. But I ran […]

Chrysacolla outside unmarked Bullard Peak adit.

Bullard Mine Exploration

2018-02-27 Mine Exploring 2

I was planning to hike the Black Canyon Trail this week, as it has a wide variety of spring #flowerporn. But our winter monsoon has […]

"Welcome to Slash S Ranch" sign on Dripping Spring Rd.

Scott Mountain & Ray Mine

2018-02-08 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

The Dripping Springs Mountains are not an area I had heard of until one day I was randomly perusing a topo map, and noticed the […]

Skull Rock is 10 miles from US-95 on Kofa Queen Canyon Road.

Tunnel Mine Canyon & Skull Rock

2018-01-26 Hiking, Mine Exploring, Off Roading 3

It’s been way too long since I visited the stunning mountains of northern Yuma County. Almost two years, since I went arch hunting in the […]

Weepah & Homestake Mine Exploration

2017-12-16 Mine Exploring 4

Back in July, my January, 2016, Webber Mine exploration video started increasing views to 30 per day, then 50, then what is now a nearly […]

The unmoored metal headframe at Flower Gold Mine.

Finch Wash Mine Exploration

2017-10-21 Mine Exploring, Off Roading 2

My wife’s away for a second week, so my regular mine exploring buddy Prescottstyle (Paul) suggested we hike up Finch Wash in Copper Basin, just […]

I done gone all artsy fartsy.

Black Hills Loop

2017-07-12 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

It’s been hard coming up with hikes the past six weeks. The temperatures have usually been over 110° in the low desert around Phoenix. As […]

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