History Found In the Field

[Mudder]

dude that is an awesome find! you've never had an interest in going back? I'd love to see that!

To tell you the truth I doubt I could find it again, probably the reason it remained unmolested for so long. I was navigating by compass, really no landmarks out there it all looks the same.

 

[2rocky]

Mudder your story reminded me of an old Dave Stamey Song...Desert Winds

 

[TLowell02]

Last January in New Mexico, I found this button barely poking through the gravel in the bottom of a steep, narrow canyon.

 

[LuketheDog]

There's a really cool old steam shovel sunk in a bog near Nederland, Colorado...can't find my dang pic of it

 

[mtmuley]

There's a really cool old steam shovel sunk in a bog near Nederland, Colorado...can't find my dang pic of it

Saw some old farming or mining equipment in the Breaks. Can't find pics either. It's amazing people could get some of that stuff where they did. mtmuley

 

[2rocky]

I've seen placer mining water distribution rock walls in the Trinity alps wilderness. Some amazing rock work but far from "untrammeled by Man"

 

[Sagebrush1]

We found a lot of these morteros - acorn processing sites - where I used to live in CA. Pretty neat to imagine the goings-on when those people were using them.

 

[theat]

Awhile back I had the opportunity to do a flyby of the Mascot Mine above Hedley BC while working in the area. The old mine is pretty impressive in how it hangs onto the side of a extremely steep mountain 5000' above the valley.

 

[p_ham]

I run into a lot of old homesteads, farming equipment, mining settlements/operations and the like. There are a lot of petroglyphs in NV as well. One of my favorite mountain ranges has some ancient camp sites that you can see where the fires were kept. I don't give its location out.
Central NV

Sheepherder's homestead. It has miniature stables near the house.

Wells Fargo stagecoach stables.

 

[theat]

Sticking with my mining theme...

This is an old wrecked dredge on an Alaskan river.

 

[theat]

This is some kind of engine used to haul ore and supplies to/from an old silver mine way up on the side of a mountain in a wilderness in NW Montana. There used to be a set of narrow gauge rails running up there.

 

[theat]

While we were packing out a bull that Gerald M shot out in the breaks a few years ago, he found these carved into a sandstone face on a little shaded bench in a slot canyon.



Not too far from where his bull fell, we found a bunch of dinosaur bones.





Dinosaur track in SW Utah.

 

[ovis2]

Like others, I have found lots big and small artifacts. The past fall I found a teepee circle (I choose to believe ) on the high Montana prairie.

 

[LuketheDog]

We found a lot of these morteros - acorn processing sites - where I used to live in CA. Pretty neat to imagine the goings-on when those people were using them. View attachment 129178

Is that what those are?? I used to see those quite a bit...

 

[2rocky]

Wasn't a hunt but the Cabins on Mono Pass on the Yosemite border are pretty neat to look at.

Mono Pass Cabins

The Mono Pass miners’ cabins are a series of shelters at the head of Bloody Canyon just off the Mono Pass trail on the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park. They consist of five log structures erected about 1879 for employee housing by the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company, which owned the Golden Crown and Ella Bloss claims in the area. Constructed of white bark pine logs, they exhibited V-shaped corner notching and wedge-shaped chinking. Sod from a nearby meadow once covered their log roofs.

A one-story, one-room structure, ten by twelve feet, surrounds a shaft lined with vertical logs that is now filled with water. The four cabins stand about 100 feet away, strung in a row across the crest of the rise. Three are small, one-story, one-room buildings, each with door and adjacent window. One larger cabin has a log annex. At least three other shafts exist in the area, one below the cabins and near the lake that is open and log lined, and two others that are filled in. Their sturdy construction and isolation have helped preserve them.

Another small, deteriorated cabin exists near Mono Pass, measuring about ten feet square. The one-story, one-room log structure contained only one opening, a doorway. It was made with round, peeled logs laid in alternating tiers and joined with a V-notch joint at the ends. The log roof has fallen in and parts of the walls have toppled. Its early history is unknown, although a picture of the cabin appears in a 1909 photograph. It was probably built by a miner working at the Golden Crown or Ella Bloss mines.
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[RidgeRoamingRichard]

Scratchgravel Hills, Helena MT

 

[338 win mag]

Not sure how old or if it was from a home place or just a camp. On NF in Wyoming. Pretty neat none the less.

 

[Sagebrush1]

Is that what those are?? I used to see those quite a bit...

Yah. If you’re really lucky you can find the pestle still in place - but that’s extremely rare. Most have been taken.

 

[diamond hitch]

Theat the piece of machinery in your picture is an Ingersall Rand compressor.

 

[tarheel]

Theat, the piece of machinery in your picture is an Ingersall Rand compressor.

Most likely used to power air drills. Gardner-Denver used to be one of my accounts back in the early 70's.