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Out here in the middle of nowhere, I stumble upon a memorial plaque dedicated to James Winkler

02479-winklers-cabin.jpg I come around a bend and realize I'm at the end of the road, looking at the Bluejay Mine siteThumbnailsBluejay Mine Road enters a wash and I look at the tracks I've carved behind meI come around a bend and realize I'm at the end of the road, looking at the Bluejay Mine siteThumbnailsBluejay Mine Road enters a wash and I look at the tracks I've carved behind meI come around a bend and realize I'm at the end of the road, looking at the Bluejay Mine siteThumbnailsBluejay Mine Road enters a wash and I look at the tracks I've carved behind meI come around a bend and realize I'm at the end of the road, looking at the Bluejay Mine siteThumbnailsBluejay Mine Road enters a wash and I look at the tracks I've carved behind meI come around a bend and realize I'm at the end of the road, looking at the Bluejay Mine siteThumbnailsBluejay Mine Road enters a wash and I look at the tracks I've carved behind me

It immediately clicks that I must be at the site of "Winkler's Cabin," which reportedly burned during the 2005 fires. I had never visited Winkler's Cabin, but thought it was elsewhere, closer to Mid Hills campground.