Our Indian Guides tribe to our 2nd annual unofficial trip to Calico Ghost Town near Barstow. Aside from nothing going to plan, it was a fantastic trip. It was 100-degrees when we arrived on Friday afternoon, but that night we had crazy thundershowers and wind, which brought it down to mid-80s for the rest of the trip. The lighting knocked out the power to the ghost town, but lucky for us our bunkhouse was on another circuit, so we never lost our much needed A/C. We couldn’t go to the ghost town with the power out, so we headed into the outback for shooting and rockets (both must have been a great time because I don’t have any pictures of that part of the trip).
Gavin, Shane, and Kyle in an abandon mineshaft. It was 100-deg outside and 80-deg fifteen feet inside the cave.
The kids found a 10-inch baby sidewinder rattlesnake within 15 minutes of arriving at the bunkhouse. It was so young that it had not yet grown any functioning rattles. It quickly moved out of our area…with 18 kids buzzing around, I didn’t blame it.
We did get to visit the ghost town in the afternoon. Shane and me with a view from above.
Sign? What sign?
Dinner at Peggy Sue’s Diner. The power went out near the end of the meal…I was suspicious that it was a ploy to get our group out of the place, but after witnessing the amazing lightening show outside in the parking lot, I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
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