Mosiac Canyon and the Charcoal Kilns - Part 2

Friday, Jan. 20 - Day 3 P.M.

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

After our snack break, we headed on to the end of this road to the charcoal kilns.  These are 10 beehive-shaped structures built in 1876 by Chinese laborers to provide fuel to process silver/lead ore.  These are among the west's best preserved kilns and the whole process to make the charcoal took about 2 weeks.

 

 

 

 

Eureka Mine
Our next stop was the Eureka Mine.  The one still had some structures around, and there was a cashier mill around the corner where they processed the material that was brought out of the mines.  We did a little hiking here, and Joe made good use of his walking stick.

There were several mines in this hill/mountain, and we tromped around here for a while.  There was a lot of structure left to the cashier mill.

Here's Hiker Wilma and Hiker Mazie.  Mazie's walking stick is at home in Sierra Vista, but we did take turns when the going got rough.

Aguereberry Point

Our next, and final stop, today was Aguereberry Point, elevation 6,000+, which provided an overview of Death Valley from the West.  It was really cold up here, but we climbed around on the rocks -- felt like we were on top of the world.  We hiked on the backside of these rocks to the cliff and we could pick out the Furnace Creek area from up here.

 

On our hike we went past some rocks with what looked like petroglyphs on them, so I got a close-up, but it turned out to just be moss.  We also saw a lot of marble rocks up here.

From here, we headed back to camp, which was about 1 1/2 hours away.  We were tired, Dave was frozen (temperature up here was low 40s, and it was windy), and we had absorbed about all we could take in for one day.  There was another drive on another dirt road, Marble Canyon, right out of the campground, but we were all too tired for that, so that ended Day 3.