I told ya we would return,
The good lord blessed us with a new parntner this week, hes an old time placer miner who roamed the hills with Dowie Crittindon of the Dale mining district, His name is Doc he was the local jawbreaker (dentist) in 29 palms, he heard of our digs down the honey bee mine and joined forces with us.
we now have paper and are ready to attack this mass of boulders again, and with any luck we can get them out of the hole and see whats underthem.
gonna take my time and try to get the big boulders whittled down to size, this week we are drilling and cracking at least one rock, we have to drill by hand so it will be a slow day or two.
we are parked on this one for the next 3 months or till we get to bedrock. kinda be nice change from hiking over all those rocks up that alluvial fan, over at the big mnt, that hike is brutal no flat land just
rocks. and the hike in is getting longer with each prospect.
we were having a hard time carring enough water to last, as we were so far in we had to camp over night, or walk out in the dark over three miles of rattler infested rock.
so this was a blessing that we are back at the honey bee mine to dig, we have a fine 2 wall stacked rock camp there, maybe we can add another wall and a piece of tin for shade this time.
threw in a pic of our claim sign my daughter Mojave made for me a few years ago, ive been working this area for at least 15 years and came up with the name whilst bleepin there, and being attacked by the worst
and most feared creature in this desert the africanized bee!!!!!
to wich i have many storys of being completly covered with these guys with only a bee hood for protection and miles out from my truck and many stings!
Good Luck N happy Hunting
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