Recent Nevada trip

[Digger Bob]

Ok, things are a little slow here. Let me see if I can add something that might interest someone. At least try out this new picture posting program.

My annual Labor Day trip out to the desert is not a prospecting or treasure hunting trip. This is a 22 year tradition with my best friend that is just to relax, explore, eat, drink, and solve the problems of the world. We've gone from the two of us camping and sleeping in the back of my pickup, to two trucks and trailers, quads and GPS's. But we still get lost and run out of ice. When the ice is gone, it's time to come home.

Here's a few pics of our latest excursion up in the hills west of Mina.

Digger

 

[Digger Bob]

Let's try it again.

 

[Digger Bob]

The first one is looking out into Garfield Flats from the ruins of Garfield Mill. The playa down there is fenced off and was used by Aerojet to test high explosives and bombs. Hasn't been used in years but is supposed to have some very nasty unexploded ordinance buried deep in the sand.

The second is one of a group of Indian pictographs way off the beaten track up there.

The last is the tailings of a copper mine. There are some beautiful specimems here if one wants to add to his rock garden.

Digger

 

[FlakMagnet]

wow

all great pictures and highly interesting

man, and I gotta go to work tomorrow...(sigh).

 

[Reno Chris]

The last shot, is that one of the copper mines in New York Canyon?

There are also some interesting fossils in that general area.

Its beautiful country.

Chris

 

[Digger Bob]

I'm not sure of the canyon without a map but New York sounds familiar. I believe the mine is the Battan.
Fossils eh? I love fossils. What kind, plant or animal?

 

[Reno Chris]

Ammonites (animal - like a nautalus) - I think some trilobites as well.

Chris

 

[Slopoke]

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