T-Dub'ing to the Cerbat Mine/Ghost Town

Thursday, October 26

Late afternoon, after a day of not doing much, I rode Yagi, my TW200 towards the location of the ghost town of Cerbat nearby.

Cerbat, a native-american word for Bighorn Sheep, was a mining town back in the day.  It was also the first county seat.  Not much remains of the town.  As far as I could determine, all it's remaining building materials have been bulldozed onto a fenced off area:

Not much to see, I continued on the trail upwards into the nearby mountain peaks ending up after some steep climbing turns at what I call Cerbat Pass:

The point of the V in the pic above is the pass.  The trail dropped down into this area:

Just down the hill from the pass, is the Cerbat Mine entrance, just a short steep climb from the trail.

Once you climb the steep trail, you can see it start near Yagi, it's just a few steps to the mine shaft entrance.  

this one was pretty deep...

The entrances have a barbed wire fence erected to keep the foolish out.  You'd have to be pretty careless to wander into such places.

The view from the highest point near the mine

Remnants of a structure near the mine entrance,

perhaps a small cabin?

I rode back down, slowly, back to the Cerbat town area and from there back to the campsite with no issues.  We leave tomorrow for California to see my folks.