The Ghost Mountain Experiment DVD (long version) tells the story of the eccentric artist and author Marshal South who fled civilization with his wife Tanya in pursuit of a simple back-to-nature lifestyle. Beginning in the early 1930’s, the family lived on a remote waterless mountain and raised three children. A one-mile trail at the foot of Ghost Mountain in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park’s Blair Valley climbs to 1200 feet. The family named the mountain for the “thin, ghostly” trails that led to the obscure ridge where they built the home they called Yaquitepec. They survived simply by planting a vegetable garden, harvesting seeds and fruits from desert plants and emulating the practices of the Native Americans to conserve precious little rainfall.
Marshal’s monthly articles in the Desert Magazine chronicled life in their arid paradise for a growing national audience. The family lived on Ghost Mountain for seventeen years and survived the Great Depression and World War II. Isolation and betrayal eventually took its toll and the family moved off the mountain.
The short, steep hike up to the old home site (which partially stands today) is popular with visitors to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
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