We are camping and hiking in the Granite Mountains of California--the ones that are in Riverside County, not the Granite Mountains of the Mojave National Presrve.
As is our typical practice, we just head out either on old roads or across the desert.
On one of our hikes into this area we found something unusual, and perplexing. It appeared to be the remnants of dozens of old shacks.
All of these shacks looked to be of the same era and construction. All had windows with screens.
They were spread out over at least two acres of ground. Maybe more.
And they appear to be pretty old.
Why?
What were these? They were about a mile from the WWII Camp Granite, but nothing we have read about this Desert Training Center suggests there were any wood structures built there.
We cannot find anything online about them.
Just something lost to history, apparently. But there were enough of them to house a large number of people at one time. We found no mines nearby, but even if we had, there were too many structures for it to be an old mining camp. No signs of any type were posted.
Just another mystery about the desert.
Some photos of the rest of our hike that day. There are several more miles of these mountains that we will be explore in the coming days.
The camper is far in the distance, above my head, in the next photo.
We continue to find Mylar balloons, everywhere. We probably average about two per hike.
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