| The Big Horn Mine Located on Highway 2 past Wrightwood California. |
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| Above Left: Chris in the switching yard. Note the Creosote leaching out of the timbers. This was an early petroleum product that timbers were treated with to prevent rot. Given enough time and moisture the creostote finds its way back out of the wood and on to the more embarrasing parts of your pants. Below Left: The so-called trail beyond the mine left some unsavory choices: Mutiple stab wounds from some sort of sword plant or fall to your death to the valley floor. We all chose the pincushion option. |
| Left: This is the main building. As you can see, it is perched on 45 degree or steeper incline. The concrete footings for the structure are particlarly thick and go down about 20' on the slope side. This is where the stamp mills were and some sort of machine shop. The timbers, for there age and surrounding climate are amazingly well preserved. |
| Left: The entrance is also on a fairly steep slope and has this snazzy deck outfitted with cart tracks that vear sharply to the right for dumping ore. Right: Interior view of the mine enterance. Below Left: Andrew & George rappelling to some of the lower levels. This dropped down about 15' and the eerie hole to the right went down another 30' or so. |
| Left: The expedition party: Chris, Andrew, Bill, Sandy, George, Jean, and Sonny. I was the chump behind the camera. |
| Right: As most of the mountain is solid granite and there is very little shoring but for a few crumbly ceilings here and there. These are reinforced with this funky wide sheet steel straping. In the newer utility entrance it has chain link fence sandwiched under the straping up there as well. |
| Right: Although this photo doesn't convey its size very well, this room is HUGE! The lincoln log looking timbers you see are about 10" x 10" and about 3 feet long. They extend 12-20 feet to the ceiling in some places. This was where the water was the deepest at about 1.5 feet. |