Show us your Cool desert finds

[Sausage450r]

My daughter and I did a day trip last weekend to a spot i’ve gone to my whole life. We were taking a break during a ride, and its customary that we look around for rocks and petrified wood. I’ve been in this area numerous times but found something i’ve never found in the desert before; pottery. Right next to the pottery we found lots of obsidian stones that had clearly been worked (pieces chipped off) and in the same spot we found a very old skull/skeleton buried in the sand. Appears to be horse or something the teeth chipping from age; it must be VERY old. It reminded me of an article from the 30s or 40s that @JDMeister posted a long long time ago. The gist was; surveyor found an old wagon and skeletons in the dunes back in the 30s. It must have been all the winds we had recently that uncovered these things

 

[Mayday]

My daughter found this while hanging out near swing set. Also found an amazing titanium switch blade type knife in the washes about 24 years ago that I finally broke

 

[Mayday]

Forgot to attach pic

 

[Mayday]

Also found this in the sand 5 ft off the asphalt while camping at roadrunner last year

 

[Sausage450r]

Also found this in the sand 5 ft off the asphalt while camping at roadrunner last year

We found a few of those last weekend too

 

[Doc]

Found this canopy from an old jet in the area west of the canal several years ago. It was from a F9F aircraft. The canopy had a "date accepted" tag with a date of 9/16/50. Been out there a long time

 

[endobear]

Kids like to go scorpion hunting around camp every night. Then they have fights. Followed by death by .

 

[Jammer75]

Found at glamis a year or 2 ago decided to do this to it….and use it now!!

 

[Bansh88]

Me and Chummin found this down by the canal one summer.

 

[onanysunday]

Lots of shells, bullets, and clips found years ago across the other side of the canal. Painted them up and they have glamis sand inside for powder.

 

[onanysunday]

Drilled out a couple of 20mm tracer rounds and mounted on my truck in lieu of windshield wipers.

 

[BaBaBouy]

Took a break from the dunes and headed West into the desert at the end of Mammoth Wash, found a bombing range.

 

[onanysunday]

Took a break from the dunes and headed West into the desert at the end of Mammoth Wash, found a bombing range.

That is cool!

 

[BaBaBouy]

That is cool!

It was a great ride. I was a passenger so I doubled up on the gummies and enjoyed the show! Looked to be an active bombing range but the shiz we ran into had been there for years.

 

[punkur67]

My son found a MK23 practice bomb in plaster city. They were used for dive bomber training around WW2. These used a 10ga shotgun style blank with red powder to mark impacts on targets.

 

[Sausage450r]

It was a great ride. I was a passenger so I doubled up on the gummies and enjoyed the show! Looked to be an active bombing range but the shiz we ran into had been there for years.

They’ve been out there every day this past week

 

[Rockwood]

 

[Esco]

no helmets? ^^

 

[Sandkist]

 

[Bansh88]