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Work, Lardeau, Argenta & Johnson's Landing
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A few days of back-to-work cleaning up and resetting up the restaurant.
I'm less than enthused. It keeps me busy, but serves as well to remind me of all the ways I'd prefer to spend my summer.
Yesterday, a trip with Chris up to Johnson's Landing, hike into the granites of Fry Creek. The right geology, but no great finds. I'll need to try this again and complete the hike.
On the road back, stop to explore a few mines, the road is dotted with adits:
Looked like a mine, got out, yep, sure enough...notice the great yellowing seams of quartz. Very coarse and granular, on the verge of becoming crystals if only there were a pocket...
Inside, hundreds of gnats (Why?), and of course, the masses of cave spiders:
in the cracks on the ceiling some bigger, juicier ones who's species eludes me. There are some small transparent crystals in a ceiling pocket - quartz, but the positioning in the ceiling doesn't recommend collecting...
You can see the quartz becoming crystals in the limestone outside...
A couple of other stops, more "Close, but no cigar" type situations, big, blocky massive quartz seams, crystals lacking in pockets. The terrain is right, but needs more exploring. And then home, the pitter patter of rain on a tin roof....
New Mines, Rambles, Etc
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So, off exploring with Chris - using wisely the last few days of freedom. Still too snowy to go anyways up the mountains, but there's a surprising amount to be discovered at the lower elevations:
Probably a deer bone, kicked out of the moss.
Mine at Woodbury, floor lined with water. An absolutely terrific place to send the kids exploring, if I'd known about it when they were younger...
Walls crusted with brittle sulfite crystals, grown since the mine was abandoned. Geologically a blink in time, imagine what will have grown in another thousand, ten thousand years?
piece of silver ore, already oxidizing on the break. Heavy, (which gives you the grade of ore), silvery-black when freshly broken with a cubic structure.
Another piece of ore, very heavy (high grade), oxidized, you can see the cubic structure and a bit of the metallic luster underneath the oxidization. Maybe 2 inches wide, but a full pound in weight.
If I could clean these up and seal them they'd sell as great specimens...
Hmmm.
Chris scrambling up to new mine, hidden just off the road. Curiously baked rock.
Shaft's all crumbled in, so no exploring there. Dated bolt on tree - October 1922 (??). Now there's so much of this hardware up there it gets me thinking what could I do to upcycle this? I mean, cool and all, how to repurpose so it doesn't go to waste and I can see some salvage value?
Spools of abandoned cable/wire.
Finally, an abandoned miners cabin, invisible from the road, worth maybe taking the metal detector up when there's less snow, but you can soon get tired of digging out all the discarded iron. Still, one day maybe something worthwhile? There are hundreds up here, surely somewhere around one there's gotta be something....
5MEO & The Apology Line
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And finished each of these. "The Apology Line" Podcast - OK, entertaining, although the narrator began to annoy me towards the end. And 5MEO - well, nothing so boring as watching other people waffle on about their trip, trying to describe what is by it's very nature personal and indescribable. So - overall - both of them get a "Meh...".
Murder Mountain - Netflix
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A mini-documentary series on Netflix about the Marijuana Trade in Humboldt County, California. Of interest because I know a lot of growers from here that travel south to the same area to trim in the fall, the people, I know most if not all of them, not them, specifically, but them the type, there are a lot of parallels between the regions. However from similar beginnings they arrive at very different outcomes. Well done.
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