Our adventure 2000 Photo Album

This is the Borax mine in the Mojave Desert near Boron, California.No photo can relate the size of this hole!

In this photo of the Borax mine you can see parts of the mine and processing plant to give some perspective to the photo above. This photo was taken on the road coming down from the Visitor's Center. You can also get some idea of scale by comparing the size of the dump truck with the white pickup in front of it.

This is the Borax Visitor Center at the Borax Mine near Boron, California

This is one of the tires off the big dump trucks used at the Borax Mine. These tires weight 6,000 pounds and are about 12 feet tall. The big wheel in the tire is Steve.

Lee & Kim, the docents at the Borax Visitors Center. Before Lee retired from Borax he had worked in most of the departments. He spent a lot of time standing at the big window overlooking the plant and mining operations pointing out what was happening and answering all out questions. Kim is a High School student from Boron.

This speed limit sign gets your attention and that's the idea.

This is an original set of twenty-mule team wagons used to haul borax out of Death Valley. She's hard to see but Fran is standing next to the rear wheel of the front wagon... it's taller than she is. Did you know that a twenty mule team was really 18 mule and two horses? The horses were the last pair next to the wagon and were needed to control the mules.