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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #20

Poinsettia Mining Camp, NV, July 2009
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Here is Sand Mountain. A place for ATV and 4WD folk to go do their thing.
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I decided to make an adventure of the trip and take a dirt road to Poinsettia due south of Sand Mountain. Accessability unknown.
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Heading south down the better part of Salt Wells Basin to Fortune Canyon.
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Derelict ranch and trailer which makes a good landmark.
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Into Fortune Canyon. Parts got very cobbly and washy and stretched the limits of my Subaru.
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Stressful, but I did make it through.
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Out of the canyon and through the tail of the Barnett Hills.
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Rawhide Cemetery site. Didn't see any tombstones, but also didn't hop any fences. They may be out there.
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This is the Rawhide ghost town site. This is where Tim White and friends were confronted with the fact that a modern mining operation wiped out or displaced the famous ghost town.
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They came from the east, so I now pick up their trail back into the seemingly un-named playa here far removed from any highway.
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Big dust storm with a frontal wall kicks up on the playa.
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I overshoot the turn to Poinsettia (even with my GIS professional skills) and climb towards Rhyolite Pass before I realize I'm off the mark.
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Turning back I see a beautiful view of the area I traversed.
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Finally find the road to this windmill on a rail car landmark.
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The roads get really feral as I seem to near the spring Tim described in his Western Lore magazine of 1990's that described his youthful discovery of this place. I am excited.
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Looking back at the vastness between myself and any form of pavement. My desert enthusuasm is rekindled.
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There it is. Poinsettia mining camp.
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