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Memorial Park Metro Stop, Pasadena CA.
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Simon "Ghost" Riley - Halloween 2010




Image by xplan303ex

Decided I had enough gear to dress up as Ghost from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Not going for video game accuracy, just similar looks.

Mask is custom painted by me.
Earmuffs have no communication capability.
ACR is Magpul PTS Masada with Dytac QD Multicam silencer and flash hider (this is an airsoft replica, not a real firearm).


You Learn Nothing By Sitting In The Car - Ballarat ghost town, CA - ballarat14




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Ballarat ghost town, Panamint Valley. That first building again, with a sign saying 'get out of your car and look around'. There are just a handful of structures standing, plus lots of pieces of buildings scattered all about.

Ballarat is one of the most remote ghost towns in one of the most remote corners of California. Settled between the salt flats of Panamint Valley to the west and the impassable mountains separating it from Death Valley to the east, Ballarat was founded in 1895 as a resupply camp for the rough-and-tumble mining camps in the nearby hills. But as the mines at Ratliff, Panamint and Pleasant Canyon played out, Ballarat slowly returned to dust. In the 1960's a local businessman built a cinderblock building and set up an RV park with the hopes of turning the region into the next Palm Springs, but Ballarat's extreme remoteness foiled any commercial prospects. The town has been home to various colorful desert rats, including Seldom Seen Slim and Charles Manson, but these days Ballarat is usually home to one or two permanent residents, tending the crumbling buildings that remain at the town center and supplying the off-roaders and explorers heading up into the mountains to the north and east. Ballarat is one of California's more interesting ghost town relics of the past, partly due to its extreme isolation and because it hasn't been touched by commercialization; but also for the colorful caretaker and historian that tends the town.

For more information about Ballarat, visit:
Desert USA article from 1999.
Wikipedia entry.
www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/ballart.html.

Picture taken October 21, 2007. Photo #14 of 50 of my 'Ballarat ghost town' photoset.