STRAYNGER RANGER: TOP 10 POSTS OF 2018
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- Category: Abandoned, Mines/Ghost Towns
Reviewing where we’ve been, where we’re going and counting down our top 10 most popular posts of the year.
Read MoreCALIFORNIA ALKALI COMPANY RUINS: CARTAGO, CA
In 1917, Cartago became the company town for the California Alkali Company, which refined soda ash and other saline minerals from the brines and salt deposits of Owens Lake.
Read MoreUNDERGROUND 2018: A PHOTO ESSAY
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- Category: Mines/Ghost Towns
Traveling back to the outskirts of Tecopa, CA to spend my third year exploring the Shoshone Mines at Underground 2018.
Read MoreGHOST MINE: EASTERN SIERRA NEVADA
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Sitting at an elevation of 8000 feet in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, this ghost mine operated from 1909 to 1938.
Read MoreSTRAYNGER RANGER: ONE YEAR, NO FEAR
What a long stRAyNGE trip it’s been. A look back at Straynger Ranger’s first year and what to expect in the future.
Read MoreABANDONED MOJAVE MILL: A PHOTO ESSAY
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- Category: Abandoned, Mines/Ghost Towns
Exploring a former hard rock precious metals processing and extraction facility that’s slowly decaying in Mojave NP. ]
Read MorePORT OF TILLAMOOK BAY ABANDONED RAILROAD HIKE: SALMONBERRY RIVER, OREGON
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- Category: Abandoned, Nature/Hikes
This 10 mile hike along an abandoned railroad travels through numerous tunnels, bridges, and lush riparian forests as it makes its way through the rugged and remote Salmonberry River Canyon in Oregon’s Tillamook State Forest.
Read MoreCOALDALE, NEVADA [ABANDONED]
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This abandoned highway roadside ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada was built on coal and destroyed by gas.
Read MoreSOYLENT ANNOYMENT
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When the CEO from LA based meal-replacement startup Soylent, decided to plop a red shipping container on top of a Northeast LA hilltop that’s cherished for its open space, not everyone was welcoming.
Read MoreDOWN AND OUT IN YERINGTON, NV
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After getting cop block’d while exploring the abandoned Sage Crest Drive-In in Yerington, I headed over to the former mining town of Weed Heights to check out the recently designated Superfund site of the massive Anaconda Copper Mine.
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