March 14, 2013
About two years ago I conned Tom Mahood into hiking to the Captain Jinks Mine in the Hexie Mountains at the eastern end of Joshua Tree National Park. As part of the research for that hike, we identified two other remote mines in that area, the Ruby Lee Mine and the Combination Mine. We had been planning a stupidly long hike to see these mines, requiring a car shuttle, but the weather has warmed up a lot lately and this one might have to wait until fall. Still, we had set a day for the hike, so what else to do?
