LAT 35 11.3683 N LONG 115 09.2883 W
Pictures taken 1/15/05.
(click here to see the Pinion Hills property)
Panoramic view of riverbed at heart of the Mojave property. click for larger image
Movie of wild ride down the almost non-existent surveyor's road to the locality of the property. Click to view quicktime movie.
On the way to Barstow. This might be Wrightwood. |
Terrible Herbst!? In Barstow. |
A train carrying tractors. |
Goffs, California: near-deserted resting place of historic desert artifacts. |
STOP |
close-up of Goffs sign. This is well inside of the Mojave National Preserver |
Plaque for restored Goffs schoolhouse |
Jason at Plaque |
Jason's first Geocache find, just outside Goffs! |
This GPS receiver led us right to the geocache, and later to the property. |
Inside: a cockatiel book! And the "Froggie" travel bug. |
An old car, part of the open-air museum at Goffs. |
Study the Past |
An eerily vacant barbecue scene. |
Antique mill of some sort. |
Old mining equipment, looks like. |
Rust, arcane, curious. |
An abandoned caboose. |
Hop on in for a ride... |
What dreams were there once in these desolate climes? |
These are the remains of Lanfair, a ghost town that was once apparently a large sheepherding and ranching community. |
This is the closest map location to the property. |
A few crumbling foundations.. and lots of modern trash. |
Bullshit Boulevard. This isolated house is where the power ended. After this it was a lonng way on dirt roads. |
The almost non-existent surveyor's "road" we took for about 2 miles. |
On the surveyor's road we got within 1.3 miles of the property's center. We got out to hike the rest. |
deadwood |
one of the only two signs of human presence we saw out after the road ran out (the other was a rusted coffee can). this was in an old wash. |
The terrain alternated between thick creosote bushes and joshua trees, and open areas like this. |
a flock of quails taking off nearby. there is life in the desert. |
an unfocused picture of a huge jackass rabbit |
bobcat tracks |
weird pod plant of some sort |
barrel cactus! the only ones we saw |
some sort of red underbrush. notice the shadows getting long... |
After a hike of over an hour, we finally made it to the coordinates of the center of the property. A large washed-out river bed greeted us. |
This is the dead center of the property.. according to the satellites. |
A beautiful view of joshua trees and of some apparently strip-mined mountains in the distance. |
view in another direction |
Jason on the property |
the landscape glowed as the sun sank |
Rick on the property |
more weird plants. now we were trekking back to the truck, racing against the dying light |
a last look back |
a peculiar tree |
Pastels in the sky. we ended up just barely making it back to the truck before total darkness. |