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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #44


Palm Springs Indian Canyons, Abandoned WWII desert bases, November 2016.

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Ruins in Palm Canyon, south of Palm Springs, CA in the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation.

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Up the narrow Palm Canyon to the Trading Post visitor center.

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Spectacular views of the vast Palm Canyon oasis from the Trading Post.

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Decided to avoid tourists and take an 8 mile hike into the moonscape environs west of Palm Canyon.

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Small oasis up Fern Canyon.

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Dropping into a wash taking me north.

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Tiny isolated oasis in this little wash.

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Back into the moonscape.

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Gained about 800 ft up above Palm Canyon, and it was unseasonably about 95 degrees in November.

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Tres barrelheads.

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Dropping back into Palm Canyon from the North.

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