Google maps gave me the coordinates for the beginning of Buffalo Valley. We are actually much more south than that. Here is a new picture. Again we are between the mountain ranges. The other teams are at the salt flats to the north of us. As I said, this project area is huge. I wish I could remember the acreage.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Happy Birthday
Hola,
Happy Birthday!
Have a good day. hope u don't mind me posting a doofer, but this is so funny and I wanted to wish u happy birthday!
Emma
x
Happy Birthday!
Have a good day. hope u don't mind me posting a doofer, but this is so funny and I wanted to wish u happy birthday!
Emma
x
Friday, June 20, 2008
Birthdays, work and stuff
I forgot how hot it is in Nevada...it is incredibly hot. 10 hours in the sun with no shade is really difficult when you come from 60 degree weather.
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.
Click on the picture to see the whole album.
Oh yeah, and my 30th birthday is tomorrow.
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.
View Larger Map
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.
Click on the picture to see the whole album.
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| Buffalo Valley 1 |
Oh yeah, and my 30th birthday is tomorrow.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Weird Stuff
Ok, there are a few things I have found weird while I have been here and I realize that only a few people will get what I mean when they see these listed (namely Emma).
1. Panic at the Disco playing "Gin and Juice" with Snoop Dogg.
2. The Summer 2008 Commercial for "Bones."
3. A Kooks song being played in the background of a Michelob Wine Coolers commercial. I will explain...I swear these kids are 17 (but when I looked it up, they are actually 23, so they have been legal for a while.)
4. People wanting to see Rise Against videos on MTV.
5. The Pussy Cat Dolls performing on "So You Think You Can Dance."
6. Snoop Dogg doing country...with Willie Nelson.
Given, there are many other weird things, but these are the only ones I bothered to write down.
So Emma...are you laughing yet?
1. Panic at the Disco playing "Gin and Juice" with Snoop Dogg.
2. The Summer 2008 Commercial for "Bones."
3. A Kooks song being played in the background of a Michelob Wine Coolers commercial. I will explain...I swear these kids are 17 (but when I looked it up, they are actually 23, so they have been legal for a while.)
4. People wanting to see Rise Against videos on MTV.
5. The Pussy Cat Dolls performing on "So You Think You Can Dance."
6. Snoop Dogg doing country...with Willie Nelson.
Given, there are many other weird things, but these are the only ones I bothered to write down.
So Emma...are you laughing yet?
Road Trip no 2- I-80 West to CA-49 N to Hwy 395 South
So I went on a little road trip yesterday, just a little loop through the Tahoe National Forest. You know, going over the California border is like going into another country. You have to go through "customs". They used to just ask if you had any fruit, now they ask where you are coming from and how long you are staying...just like going into Canada...it was so weird.
I went to this neat little cemetery that looked quite new, however, many of the headstones had dates that were old. I decided that this cemetery must have been moved. What I really liked about many of the headstones was the pictures that some of them had.
I went to this neat little cemetery that looked quite new, however, many of the headstones had dates that were old. I decided that this cemetery must have been moved. What I really liked about many of the headstones was the pictures that some of them had.
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| Tahoe and HWY 49 |
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