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11-21-2006, 11:20 PM
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Went hiking around my area...
I moved up here about a year ago and i am slowly starting to explore. This last summer i finally went swimming in the rivers, went wakeboarding on the lakes, i've been goldpanning in the creeks/rivers
Well down the street from me they used to do hydrolic mining and now its basicly a 4x4 park. Every winter all the 4x4 vehicles in the area go down there for a Winterfest wheeling trip.
I went hiking down there this last weekend and this is what i found
Heres the pics
This is the shaft under the bridge on the downstream side
This is the bridge that washed away, you can see it in the water.
This is the shaft on the upstream side, its the side we first discovered
This is why they call it Steep Hallow Creek
Heres the sleuthbox that washed down stream and rested next to the shaft
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11-21-2006, 11:22 PM
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This is wear the bridge would have crossed
This is what the land looks like after Hydromining in the Late 1800s
If you can imagine a mountain right in the middle of that then you'll know how the land looked like before. What they did was dig a drift mine into the mountain with several shafts going in different directions and then they filled each shaft with tons of TNT and blew the entire mountain up and then used the big water cannons to wash the dirt and rock down into their sleuthboxes to collect the gold.
At the top of that mountain on the left a mansion used to reside there but they tore it down and moved it after the mine was shut down
Heres some of the drainage, people seem to like to dump garbage everywhere  Some of the garbage i found though is from the early 1900s, i found an old truck bed, some truck seats, someone dumped oil filters and old air filters, a lot of tires. I didn't hike far into the hydromining though maybe i'll find an old Model T or something
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11-21-2006, 11:23 PM
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Kinda creepy walking around a cementary where several people were buried in the 1860s
The Jeep chillin where the old mining buildings might have been
All this is within a 5-10 minute drive from my house
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11-21-2006, 11:39 PM
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thats actually really cool
gonna keep exploring deeper?
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11-21-2006, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by bigpoppaproppy
thats actually really cool
gonna keep exploring deeper?
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It says "DANGER: KEEP OUT". Im just taking a wild guess here, but I dont think it would be wise to explore deeper.
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11-21-2006, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Errorist
It says "DANGER: KEEP OUT". Im just taking a wild guess here, but I dont think it would be wise to explore deeper.
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it said that in one pic...wasnt sure if that was for the entire area, or a small part...hard to judge from the pics
besides, rules are meant to be broken...just ask the people from the descent 
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11-21-2006, 11:51 PM
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Where do you live in California?
Scenery looks nice.
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11-21-2006, 11:52 PM
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I wish I had nature like that where I live. I would always be out there.
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11-21-2006, 11:52 PM
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besides, rules are meant to be broken...just ask the people from the descent |
Arent you a cop? Shame on you.
Im going to bed, later.
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11-21-2006, 11:59 PM
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I wish I had nature like that where I live. I would always be out there.
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11-22-2006, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by bigpoppaproppy
thats actually really cool
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yeah i am, i am going back out on thursday and i am going to hike deeper into the hydromining area.
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11-22-2006, 12:07 AM
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it said that in one pic...wasnt sure if that was for the entire area, or a small part...hard to judge from the pics
besides, rules are meant to be broken...just ask the people from the descent |
The danger Keep out sign is only for the bridge since it got washed out. Everyone rides their quad/dirtbike or drives their Jeep through the hydromining area. The bridge is dangerous because its a 100 foot fall down into the creek. You can see the sharp sides of the creek walls in one of the first couple of pics.
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11-22-2006, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by sHaDyOneDeath
Where do you live in California?
Scenery looks nice.
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I live in the Gold country 45 minutes from Lake Tahoe.
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11-22-2006, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Errorist
Arent you a cop? Shame on you.
Im going to bed, later.
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so cops cant break rules?
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11-22-2006, 12:39 AM
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Can a mod please move this to the Outdoor section of the misc. sorry for posting it here
thanks
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