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It obviously required a lot of work to slice the old Ivanpah railway grade through the hills a century ago

3370-ivanpah-railway.jpg It's a steep drop from Bathtub Spring Peak down to the badlands belowThumbnailsInsect webs (caterpillars?) on a Desert almond bush near my tentIt's a steep drop from Bathtub Spring Peak down to the badlands belowThumbnailsInsect webs (caterpillars?) on a Desert almond bush near my tentIt's a steep drop from Bathtub Spring Peak down to the badlands belowThumbnailsInsect webs (caterpillars?) on a Desert almond bush near my tentIt's a steep drop from Bathtub Spring Peak down to the badlands belowThumbnailsInsect webs (caterpillars?) on a Desert almond bush near my tentIt's a steep drop from Bathtub Spring Peak down to the badlands belowThumbnailsInsect webs (caterpillars?) on a Desert almond bush near my tent

Those were other times, a mining boom, not so different in some ways from today's "tech" boom.