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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #38

Pisgah Crater, Coachella Canyons, Joshua Tree Mines, March 2014
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Started off with a visit to the Volcano House near Newberry Springs, CA.
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As far as the visit goes, this is as far as you can get without an invitation.
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Super bug!
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Super bug on my hat.
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Next up, Pisgah Crater. Also fairly inaccessible as a mine controls the only access road in.
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There are lava tube caves here, similar to those at Lava Beds National Monument, however the locations are not mapped to the public. Without precise survey information, there is no way to find them in these hundreds of acres of lava flows.
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I suspect this survey marker is how the geologists tie in to the caves, wherever they are.
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