This 99-page guide provides directions and GPS coordinates to many fascinating sites that are fun to locate and explore.
 
Bill Mann, aka "Short Fuse" launched this unique series of guide books on the Mojave Desert and the surrounding areas in 1998. This series of books features page after page of color photos of the interesting and sometimes “mysterious” areas described in the book. Bill Mann provides his unique perspective on each site from his decades of experience as a miner and desert explorer. GPS coordinates and written directions are provided to each site so the reader can use the book as a "field copy" to locate and explore these destinations.
 
Sites included in this volume:
 
Discovery Center, Solar Observatory, Big Bear Lake Overlook, Holcomb Valley Overlook, Hitchcock Ranch and Cemetery, Wilber's Grave and Pond, Log Cabin in The Sky, A-Boundary Rock (Split Rock), B-Bellville Well, Independence Mine, Mine With Headframe, A-Pigmy Cabin, B-Natural Arch, Granite Boulder Rock Shelters, Two-Gun Bill's Saloon, English Dredge Ditch, Hangman's Tree, Garvey Stamp Mill, Original Diggings, Bellville Cabin and Arrastres, Holcomb Valley Dam (Rock Dam), Metger Mine, A-Burnt Flat Spring, B-Orchard and Pond, C-Mohawk Mine, Lucky Baldwin Baldwin Mine and Mill, A-Doble Town Site, B-Doble Cemetery, Peace Rock, Eye of The God, Iron Door Mine, Spanish Smelter and Stone Cabin, A-Rose Mine, B-Rose Mine Cemetery, Onyx Mill and Buildings, A-Water Tunnel, B-Chinese Wikiup, C-Chinese Rock Shelter, Indian Bed Rock Mortar, Big Bear Museum, Big Bear Zoo (Moonridge Zoo), I.S. Ranch, Oak Knoll Lodge, Elsie Caves, Champion Lodge Pole Pine and Stump Chair, Castle Rock and Trail Head, Dam Keeper House (Cottage), B-26 Airplane Wreck on Keller Peak Lookout, Butler Peak Lookout, Water Wheel and Arrastres, Spanish Fort, Coxey Meadows Spring and Pond, Wright Mine, A-K-Jon Mine Mill, B-K-Jon Cabin and Mine, Greenlead Mine, Iron Cross, Pan Hot Springs.