Though the past 4 days have been hard, we found some cool stuff. There are 3 crews and I really only know what has happened with my crew. I do know that one crew already finished 40 miles of surveying even with sites they recorded. My crew has not done so much in mileage as we have to recording. We now have recorded 13 sites. And many of them were no picnic. The majority of the sites were historic dating from the late 1900 to the 1950s. Lots of cans and glass, but the cooler part was that there were structures and car parts.
Man, we make a big deal about recycling, but the miners in the early 1900's could not be matched. They used everything. Old tin cans, car parts and bottles to make everything. And low and behold it is still there over 100 years later. Yes, all of it is dilapidated, but if someone had been there keeping it up, I bet it would look perfect.
The area is so pretty. I will put our project area below. It is huge!! Most of the area is on the picture but we are moving East/ West between the two mountain ranges.
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We are working on BLM land that allows the mine (the name escapes me) to drill for metals. I think this one is a silver mine.
I have included a bunch of pictures. A total of 6 really nice points have been found by our crew, the other teams had much more, but they had no historical sites.
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Oh yeah, and my 30th birthday is tomorrow.
2 comments:
The photos you took are awesome, it was good to see the kinds of things you find.
I hope you dont run into any mutated, murderous cannibal families out there in the middle of nowhere, that would suck...
I think I would like to be an archeologist too...you get to find cool things and wander around in the dessert! Are you burning or using fabulous sunscreen and long sleeves?
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