Back before the Station Fire, I spotted an intact wooden structure above Brown Mtn. Road. It looked like an elevated wooden platform rising from the chaparral high up on the slope.
I finally made it up there a few months back to check out what was left of it. Some concrete footings with no markings and a few burnt timbers.
Did anybody ever visit this spot before the fire? What do you think it was?
You can also see similar footings on the next ridge below:
the mystery objects of el prieto
Okay, here's a try. 34 13'20.07, 118 09'18.29
You can see the footings in a Google Earth image from just after the fire.
The other imagery they have is pretty vague except for one image from 2007 where you can sort of spot a grayish rectangle in the vicinity.
Even in person it was hard to spot except from certain angles at a certain time of day when the light was just right.
I had originally thought that it was an old power line, but where from and where to? Was there ever a cabin up in that part of El Prieto? Somebody went to the effort of putting it up there, but what for? The lost Brown Mountain salt tramway?
You can see the footings in a Google Earth image from just after the fire.
The other imagery they have is pretty vague except for one image from 2007 where you can sort of spot a grayish rectangle in the vicinity.
Even in person it was hard to spot except from certain angles at a certain time of day when the light was just right.
I had originally thought that it was an old power line, but where from and where to? Was there ever a cabin up in that part of El Prieto? Somebody went to the effort of putting it up there, but what for? The lost Brown Mountain salt tramway?