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Lost Horse Mine Hike, Joshua Tree National Park
The Hike to the abandoned Lost Horse Mine inside Joshua Tree National Park. The old wooden mineworks are fenced off but you can check out the ruins of the buildings that once stood around and helped run the mine. Awesome views out across the Joshua Tree valley and a good hike from the trailhead.
Riverside County - Lost Horse Mine Hike
This loop hike begins among peculiar Joshua Trees. These members of the yucca genus grow in twisted shapes. Trunks may sprout in a row from underground rhizomes. The trail winds around Lost Horse Mountain to vistas above Pleasant Valley. Malapai Hill, remnant of an ancient volcano, stands out within the Valley. There are opportunities to explore historic gold mining sites. Nearby Keys View offers vistas of Mount San Jacinto, San Gorgonia Mountain, the Salton Sea, Palm Springs, & the Coachella Valley.
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Joshua Tree National Park Lost Horse Mine Hike
Joshua Tree National Park
4 mile round trip hike to Lost Horse Mine
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2011-04 Joshua Tree National Park - Keys View and Lost Horse Mine Trail
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Gold Mine , Lost Horse Mine, Joshua Tree National Park
Lost Horse Mine In Usa California.
Even before the California Gold Rush of 1849, prospectors were finding gold in southern California. As the take from the mines in the Sierras petered out, miners fanned out into the deserts. Here hot summers, scarce water, limited wood sources, and the difficulty and high cost of transporting equipment and provisions created a challenging environment in which to operate a mine. But a few hardy adventurers persevered and about 300 mines were developed in what is now Joshua Tree National Park—although few were good producers.
An exception is the Lost Horse Mine, which produced more than 10,000 ounces of gold and 16,000 ounces of silver (worth approximately $5 million today) between 1894 and 1931. When the story of the Lost Horse Mine is told, it sounds like a western campfire tale: gun slinging cowboys, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, the lure of gold, and a sticky-fingered miner.
Johnny Lang
As long-time resident William F. Keys, told the story, Johnny Lang and his father drove their herd of cattle into the Lost Horse Valley in 1890, when there was “nothing but cattle and Indians.” Johnny told Keys that they had moved west after his brother and six other cowboys were gunned down in New Mexico.
One night, while camped in the Lost Horse Valley, the Langs’s horses disappeared. Next morning Johnny tracked them to the McHaney brothers’ camp near today’s Keys Ranch. According to local legend, the McHaney Gang were cattle rustlers. Keys said they told Johnny his horses weren’t there and to leave the area.
Keys goes on to say that Johnny met up with a man named “Dutch” Frank who told of also being threatened by the McHaneys. Frank said that he had discovered a rich claim but was afraid to develop it. Johnny and his father bought the rights to the mine for $1000 and called it Lost Horse. To reduce the chances of being killed by the McHaney Gang or having his claim jumped, Johnny took on three partners. After filing their claim, they set up a two-stamp mill and began processing gold.
J.D. Ryan
A wealthy rancher from Montana, J.D. Ryan, bought out Johnny’s partners in 1895. The next year he found a steam-powered, ten-stamp mill somewhere near the Colorado River and had it dismantled and hauled to the mine site. To provide steam for the mill, Ryan ran a two-inch pipeline 3.5 miles, from wells at his ranch to an earth and stone reservoir near the mill. Steam engines fueled by trees from nearby mountains were used to push the water up the 750 foot elevation gain where it was boiled to power the stamp mill. Heating the water at both the ranch and the mill required a lot of wood, and the results of the timbering can be seen today in the sparsely vegetated hillsides at both sites.
Getting to the Gold
The booming of the ten 850-pound stamps could be heard echoing across the valley 24 hours a day as the ore was crushed. Water added to the crushed rock made a slurry, which washed over copper plates covered with a thin film of mercury. The gold particles clung to the mercury and the debris washed away.
The amalgam of mercury and gold was smelted to separate the two metals. The mercury could be reused and the gold was formed into bricks. These bricks were carried to Banning every week, concealed in a 16-horse freight wagon. The 130-mile trip to deliver the gold and return with supplies took five days.
As the story goes, the day shift was producing an amalgam the size of a baseball while the night shift, supervised by Lang, recovered a mere golf ball. Ryan hired a detective to investigate and discovered that when Johnny removed the amalgam from the copper plates, he kept half for himself. Ryan gave Lang a choice: sell out or go to jail. Lang sold, then moved into a nearby canyon where he continued to prospect.
The Lost Horse Mine continued producing until 1905, when the miners hit a fault line and forever lost the ore-bearing vein. The mine was leased to others or left dormant until 1931, when rising gold prices prompted the processing of 600 tons of tailings (unprocessed chunks of leftover ore) with cyanide, producing a few hundred ounces of gold.
Joshua Tree National Park. Lost Horse Mine Trail. 1/9/15
View from the summit above the lost Horse mine . 1/9/15
Boondocking Outside Joshua Tree National Park & Hiking Lost Horse Mine - Full Time RV Living
Jenni and I are no strangers to BLM boondocking. We feel at home on these desolate tracts of free federal land. So despite recommendations to stay inside Joshua Tree National Park, we dropped anchor on BLM land just outside. But this didn't stop us from having our first great adventure inside Joshua Tree National Park! Check out the blog post on our website for more details!
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We set up camp just outside Joshua Tree National Park mainly for the cell service - we need this to work! On the BLM land south of the park there is strong 4G signal, however the National Park itself is a giant dead zone. Also, we're unfamiliar with the park and will boondock on BLM land until we gather our bearings. We would love to stay inside Joshua Tree but are afraid it is completely full - we'll see!
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Joshua Tree Lost Horse Rock Climbing
Joshua Tree Rock Climbing in the Lost Horse Wall Area - Shot with smrtCAM -- go to smrtcam.com
Lost Horse Mine Joshua Tree National Park
August 3013 Lost Horse Mine. This video is hilarious cause we are so badly out of shape and it shows! Haha
Lost Horse Mine, Joshua Tree National Park, October 30, 2009
The surroundings at the Lost Horse Mine, a 4.4 mile roundtrip hike into the Joshua Tree backcountry. Much of the trail is still affected from a fire within the last couple of years, but the views are still spectacular and it makes for a fun little hike.
Lost in Joshua Tree (#019)
I travelled to Joshua Tree and Pioneertown with a few friends to hike at the park and see a few bands play in the desert. We went to the world famous Pappy and Harriet's and the Joshua Tree National Park.
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Amazing California S1 E7 - Joshua Tree
This episode concludes Amazing California, Season 1, through our journey to Giant rock and Joshua Tree National Park. Both places are amazing sights and must be visited at some point in life. I made this journey with Max and Nathalie, from LR110Travels, and they were a blast to travel with. It was meeting them that inspired me to take overland more seriously and showed me how doable it really is to take long trips for extended periods of time... and don't simply have the coolest Defender 110 you've ever seen..?!! Anyway, thanks so much for watching and stayed tuned for the next trip!!
Horseback Riding Black Rock Canyon Trail in Joshua Tree National Park
Horseback riding the trails in Joshua Tree National Park, just outside the Southern California desert town of Joshua Tree........
Pinkham Canyon Joshua Tree National Park
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To some, Joshua Tree National Park is only a desert. It is actually two deserts, the higher elevation Mojave and the lower elevation Colorado. The result is amazing desert flora, rock formations and those wacky namesake trees (actually a type of yucca). Joshua Tree’s beauty shines around the clock, with vibrant sunsets melting into nights filled with uncountable stars. Joshua Tree National Park encompasses almost 800,000 acres, larger than Rhode Island. The Park offers hiking, photography, horseback riding, rock climbing, and camping, to name a few activities. Most 4x4 off-roaders love the Park for its trails. Almost all of the trails have a Gold or Silver Mine associated with it. Pinkham Canyons attraction is the Snow Cloud Mine, watch for Waypoint 4 for the turnoff to the north. So enjoy and explore with safety.
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Driving from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree National Park & Hiking on Boy Scout Hiking and Equestrian Trail
Trailhead and parking lot:
Indian Cove Boy Scout Trail
Indian Cove Rd, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California, east of Los Angeles, near San Bernardino and Palm Springs. The park is named for the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert.
Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the U.S. Congresspassed the California Desert Protection Act.
Encompassing a total of 790,636 acres —an area slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island—the park includes 429,690 acres designated wilderness. Straddling the border between San Bernardino County and Riverside County, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains traverse the southwest edge of the park.
Hiking
There are several hiking trails within the park, many of which can be accessed from a campground. Shorter trails, such as the one mile hike through Hidden Valley, offer a chance to view the beauty of the park without straying too far into the desert.
A section of the California Riding and Hiking Trail meanders for 35 miles (56 km) through the western side of the park.
The lookout point at Keys View, towards the south of the park, offers views of the Coachella Valley, the Salton Sea, the San Andreas Fault, the Santa Rosa Mountains, and the city of Palm Springs.
Nature walks inside the park include:
Hidden Valley
Indian Cove
Cholla Cactus Garden
Longer trails include:
Boy Scout Hiking and Equestrian Trail
Contact Mine
Fortynine Palms Oasis
Lost Horse Mine
Lost Palms Oasis
Ryan Mountain
Warren Peak
Due to graffiti on at least 17 sites on trails, officials have closed them to the public.
The closed sites include Native American sites, at the Southern California park's Rattlesnake Canyon and Barker Dam.
They blame the increase in vandalism on the increased use of social media.
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Joshua Tree Lost Horse Mine Trail
This is the backside of Lost Horse Mine Trail. This part of the traill is rarely hiked.The full loop is 6.2 miles and most people hike to the mine and return the same way. Look what thei miss great view of Joshua Tree
15 Places to Explore in Joshua Tree National Park
15 Things to do in Joshua Tree National Park
In this weeks list, we head to Joshua Tree National Park, where I share some of my favorite places to explore in the park. Located only 2 and a half hours from Los Angeles, Joshua Tree is an amazing park with so many adventures to be had and this video is just scratching the surface.
Here are the spots visited:
1. Arch Rock
2. Cholla Cactus Garden
3. Ryan Mountain
4. Barker Dam
5. Wall Street Mill
6. Keys Desert Queen Ranch
7. Rocks - Skull Rock, Heart Rock, Split Rock, Cap Rock, Penguin Rock
8. Hidden Valley
9. Lost Horse Mine
10. Keys View
11. Geology Tour Road
12. Mastodon Peak
13. Desert Queen Mine
14. Samuelson Rocks
15. Eagle Cliff Mine
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Lost Horse Mine Ten Stamp Mill (Joshua Tree National Park)
This is the Lost Horse Mine, a Ten Stamp Mill in Joshua Tree National Park. It's in really good shape!