Slab City Pictures

[SoulRaven]

Seems to be an interest in Slab City again so I will re-up my pictures from Slab City from February of 2012... Enjoy...<br /><br />http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/TooRisky/Slab City CA/<br /><br />

 

[SirJoey]

<br /><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>IDK why, but that place kinda fascinates me. I'd really like to visit </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>it someday, even though I'm on the opposite side of the country.&nbsp;<img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" /><br /><br /></strong></span>

 

[josephusminimus]

Soul Raven:&nbsp; Thanks for sharing the pics.&nbsp; The place has a magnetism about it.&nbsp; I can see how a person could be drawn to spend some time there.&nbsp; gracias,

 

[Guest]

Thanks Steve...nice to see ....I can see you cooked some good grub and never missed a beat on your talk radio,,,,Hahahahaha...I would have such an upset stomache I couldn't eat the steak....damn you're tuff.<br />Bri

 

[Mortisha]

Great pics... Thanks for sharing! I hope to make it that way one day =) HuggZ

 

[SoulRaven]

Well buddy there is a time and place to fix that carnivore in me... And yes got the radio on to get my fix daily... See ya soon bro, hey if your getting itchy feet come on back to the Sierra's...<br /><br />

Thanks Steve...nice to see ....I can see you cooked some good grub and never missed a beat on your talk radio,,,,Hahahahaha...I would have such an upset stomache I couldn't eat the steak....damn you're tuff.<br />Bri

 

[VanLifeCrisis]

I always wondered, how do you get water out there, jug it in?&nbsp;

 

[SoulRaven]

As with all boon-docking ya have to bring in everything, including water which is #1 on the list... All should have the ability to bring in at least 10 gals, most use 5 gal containers, but anything that holds water and is clean works also...

 

[hitekhomeless]

Hope Trish and Kalani get to see them!

 

[ParadiseParrot]

<p>Fascinates me not for the sad scenery or free concrete pads but that all those people..most with little income can coexist with little issue and no need for&nbsp;Police services. The MAN is going to have to bulldoze it pretty soon all that free living might get infectious.</p>

 

[user 2252]

Thanks for the pics,&nbsp;fascinating&nbsp;place, I agree. I hope to make it out there soon and experience it myself!

 

[cedric]

gotta say that place looks like something out of a mad max movie.<br />what's with the black netting over some places?

 

[Guest]

I think the thing that strikes me the most is that some people just take their trashed out trailer park with them wherever they go.<br /><br />I know where there are nearly 900 million acres of public lands (888M acres of BLM and USFS to be exact) that isn't a trash heap to park and spend time for free....<br /><br />Aren't we lucky?<br />Bri

 

[SoulRaven]

The black netting is for shade, the netting part is to allow airflow when a breeze comes up... This netting works absolutely great in that environment...<br /><br />

gotta say that place looks like something out of a mad max movie.<br />what's with the black netting over some places?

 

[josephusminimus]

I think the thing that strikes me the most is that some people just take their trashed out trailer park with them wherever they go.<br /><br />I know where there are nearly 900 million acres of public lands (888M acres of BLM and USFS to be exact) that isn't a trash heap to park and spend time for free....<br /><br />Aren't we lucky?<br />Bri

<br /><br />I used to rent a backhoe/frontend loader for $850 delivered Friday and worked until they arrived to pick it up Monday morning.&nbsp; A dozen of those folks who own high-dollar RVs and are most likely rolling in money could get together and share the cost, bury half-century of trash and junk in a weekend for 1/12 of $850 and a willingness to be a piece of a solution.<br /><br />As it is, mostly they just complain about it on one of the&nbsp;websites for the place.<br /><br />That backhoe could also dig an RV dump station with a subsurface disposal field in half an hour.<br /><br />It could also, during that weekend, spot sanitary pit-privies hither thither and yon with a few willing workers on the ground helping.<br /><br />

 

[dragonflyinthesky]

Not &nbsp;wanting to suggest what to do about someone else's problems.....but, I can't keep my mouth shut. Jack is right about the backhoe.<br />A few years back&nbsp;while I was still married, the ex&nbsp;was into going to 3rd world countries to help out. He helped dig many a trench for villages to dispose of their waste.&nbsp; This isn't hard to do. Heck, church groups are always wanting to make themselves feel better and pay to go somewhere else to help the locals (it is a business you know). I know the ex and his girlfriend spent enough money doing stuff like that.<br />Now, out of other peoples crap and promise to control myself again.<br /><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Dragonfly</strong></span>

 

[josephusminimus]

You spang caught me putting my nose into someone elses bidness.&nbsp; I've tried not to think about it, but every time I read or see pics about slab city I find myself thinking how <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I'D</span></strong> fix that problem if I went out there.&nbsp; Even if I had to rent a dadgummed backhoe by myself.&nbsp; Which I ain't going to do.<br /><br />In fact, even though I waffle in my resolve, I hope to dickens I don't even go out there because I'm an awful stick-his-nose into where it don't belong tendency guy despite my determination and recognition it's stupid.

 

[Guest]

<br />I just don't quite get the draw to the slabs but I guess there is one for some folks...if I wanted company, I would so much rather do what Bob and Steve and Cheri, etc. do and circle up some where or camp a few dozen yards down through the trees or behind the Joshua tree and meet for campfires...<br /><br />When several of us camped in one of Bob's spots in Nevada, I was amazed at the junkyards and garbage heaps around folks who were only supposed to be spending a couple weeks in one spot on BLM land....<br /><br />I am not saying that it was anyone on here , don't get me wrong, when these folks leave camp the only thing left are tire tracks and some rocks kicked over a fire pit...<br />Bri

 

[Seraphim]

Bri

+1

 

[Moby T]

I too was hesitant about going. &nbsp;Got caught up in the old "contempt before investigation" mindset. &nbsp;Once I was there, I was entranced by it all. &nbsp;Now it's the first place I head each winter. &nbsp;As a matter of fact I'm headed that way Nov. 1 !<br /><br />It's not for everyone, but please don't condemn it until you've been there. &nbsp;It's a place and a feeling that is difficult to describe. &nbsp;Last year I met the president of the Corvair Club and he was towing his pristine Corvair behind his converted 1953 Flxible bus.<br /><br /><img src="http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/remittal/DSC00586_zps541ec8b8.jpg" alt="" />