Some photos hastily thrown together of our trup to the Awakening District
1 Panoramic from Daveytown looking west
2 Looking at the road to the Alabama Mine from Daveytown
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13 The Alabama Mine
14 Remains of mill at Daveytown
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26 Getting close to the Alabama Mine
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31 View of Ruins below Alabama Mine
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37 The Awakening townsite
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42 Old truck at the Glory Hole Mine near Daveytown
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60 Glory Hole Mine
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62 Servel (aka Electrolux-Servel) built gas and kerosene-powered refrigerators from 1927 through 1956. How does heat make cold? Here is a cool link: http://vintageservelrefrigerators.8k.com/HowItWorks.html
63 Mill ruins near Alabama Mine
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67 Getting closer to the Austin-Jumbo. This is on the east side of the mountain
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71 The Austin Jumbo Mine
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79 Something was very, very dead inside here, as the smell and flies would confirm.
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95 The fur and putrid remains of some poor rotting creature, probably drug in here to be feasted on.
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103 Awesome agitation tank. Very large.
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126 After all this rain, it was like freaking Ireland out here- green green green and flowers everywhere
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129 Luis spotted this mill heading west out of the canyon
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133 RIght next to the mill, a well with water about six feet down
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135 Mill remans at the very edge of the Desert Valley, west of the Austin-Jumbo mine
