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A few yellow flowers (Encelia farinosa perhaps) bloom at the old Rattlesnake Mine site

8316-rattlesnake-mine.jpg Everyone loves a good historic desert can dump, don't they?ThumbnailsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I still have views across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsEveryone loves a good historic desert can dump, don't they?ThumbnailsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I still have views across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsEveryone loves a good historic desert can dump, don't they?ThumbnailsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I still have views across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsEveryone loves a good historic desert can dump, don't they?ThumbnailsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I still have views across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsEveryone loves a good historic desert can dump, don't they?ThumbnailsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I still have views across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hillsEveryone loves a good historic desert can dump, don't they?ThumbnailsFrom the Rattlesnake Mine site, I still have views across the valley to my Piute Gorge campsite, that slot in the distant hills

It appears that these flowers are only found in an area of disturbed soil (on the edge of where old mine installations were removed?)