Sunday, September 1, 2019 Ash Meadows: Longstreet Cabin and Rogers Spring

Jack Longstreet was a local celebrity or gunslinger depending on your perspective. He built a one-room 8 ft by 10 ft cabin of stone along a mound-covered spring in the late 1800s.  There is a boardwalk to the cabin and spring.

A view of the side of the cabin from the boardwalk.

A view of the front of the cabin. 

Now only lizards, insects, snakes and rats live in his cabin.

The doorway of the cabin. It probably would have had a wooden door. The floor is just dirt.

The view out one of the two windows in the cabin.

The view out the other window.

The lower part of this wall was a small cave that was probably cool enough for Longstreet to keep perishable food, and which dripped his drinking water.

This is the spring by Jack's cabin. It is overgrown with non-native cattails and wetland grasses that would not have been there in Longstreet's time.

I was surprised to learn that quail and pigeons are hunted at the refuge.

A sign on the boardwalk to the cabin explains the problems with non-native animals.

On the side of the boardwalk to Jack's cabin, there is a beehive in a small crack in the rocks. You can see the honeycombs and the bees! There is a sign near the hive warning hikers of the bees, but so far no-one has reported getting stung.

Further down the road to Longstreet cabin is Rogers Spring. It is not as overgrown as the spring by the cabin.

This is one of the springs where the endangered pupfish
lives. The clear water reflects the plants along the edge and the blue sky.  And near the middle of the spring, you can see the white rocks 10 feet below the surface!

What I like about this photograph is that you can see the shadow of the cloud on the mountain in the distance.

Sunset over Rogers Spring

Desert plants silhouetted by the setting sun.

Look at the mountains in the east!

The colors of the sky keep changing!

The last rays of the sun. The white dot near the left edge of the photograph is the moon.