Hi everybody, today we're on a way to Bickel Camp out in the California desert. Well Bickel came to last chance Canyon back in the 1930s. He had a machine shop in L.A. that he worked at during the weekend on the weekends he would return to Bickel Camp to work his claim. He did that until the 1940s when he moved to Bickel Camp permanently. He worked his claim for the next 40 years until in the 1980s BLM came through last chance Canyon and in an effort to get rid of squatters and drug dealers back there, they determined that anybody that had a claim back there, they said that if your claim wasn't big enough that you would have to leave. So Walt was getting ready to have his property inspected about two hours before the inspector was supposed to show up. He had a stroke and was taken to the hospital. This is the inside of Walt's cabin you can see they kept it pretty much original. BLM later determined that his property was not big enough for him to stay there, but his friends and family banded together and they were able to reach an agreement with BLM that the property could stay open as a historical property and as a museum. So every since then they've had a caretaker on the property. They were afraid that it would become a victim of bandles or theft like the brochure Smith tunnel had. One of the things the caretaker told us that was interesting is Walt had rigged up this light on this tall pole there in Bickelcamp and that's how he would communicate with other people that lived back in the area. Walt Bickelcamp isn't technically a ghost town, it's definitely worth the visit. I think next we're going to be visiting the town of Jerome. So stay tuned for that video.