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The entrance to Burro-Schmidt Tunnel. Once you get in a few feet, it's over 6' high and practically dead level. It's very easy to walk to the end, but you'll need a flashlight!
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This plaque omits one important fact, that Schmidt had no sense of direction. His tunnel came out in the middle of a very steep slope, nearly a cliff, far from the bottom!
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On the hill above the Burro Schmidt Tunnel
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A mostly dry lake bed between the hill over the Burro Schmidt Tunnel and Edwards AFB to the south.
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Yellow flowers and a joshua tree
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This old building is next to a new-looking tunnel
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A look in te tunnel. It's about 4' high
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Indian paintbrush and phacelia
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A geocache hidden in the rocks in the desert
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This was the first blooming cactus of only a very few I saw
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This was the only place that had any California poppies.
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More phacelia, growing in dense clusters
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A lonesome phacelia
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Phacelia close-up
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Evidence of old industry of some sort
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This cliff was bright white. It looked like the same stuff that came out of the Old Dutch Cleanser Mine nearby
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From here back in Jawbone Canyon, it looks like the lake isn't completely dry.
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A final view of the LA Aqueduct
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