Did you loose any of these?

[Desert Digger]

Every year the wife and I make the weekend trips to the Salt River
when they shut the water off in October. The Salt River is home to
thousands of tubers during the summer months. Most items are lost
when the tubers hang their hands over the sides of the tubes and their
fingers shrink and rings fall off. The rest of the goodies are lost when
the tubers hit the rapids and their coolers dump their contents into the
river, never to be seen again until the water is turned off. I have included
some pictures of the finds and some of the interesting scenery. The horses
are wild stalions that hang around the river.

 

[MaineRelic]

Great Hunt !! Nice pics ! Nice finds ! I really enjoyed looking !! Thanks for taking the time to post ! MaineRelic.

 

[bula]

That is one great haul, & the horses look a heck of a lot better than the mustangs in my area.

 

[mamabear]

looks like you found everything but the kitchen sink! what fun!!

 

[cnynctry]

Looks like there are som store (Frys) VIP cards attached to some keys. I would think Fry's could re-unite them with the owner.

 

[Hunter]

Great finds! Awesome rings! WTG

 

[BerntOut]

Holy Crapola! That is a load and a half....what kind of truck did you haul all the loot away with! lol!

 

[sniffer]

the best part is you probably didn't have to dig to deep to pick them up. LOL

 

[Goes4ever]

great finds, what kind of gun is that?

 

[pepperj]

WOW! Now that's some real nice photos. Great detecting also.

 

[Desert Digger]

The area here is along the Salt River in Arizona. Most of the good finds are found
where there were rapids when the water was running. My guess is that is where
alot of coolers go belly up and people fall out of their tubes. Alot of beer is consumed
along the river so by the time people hit the first rapids, they have no clue what
happend to their stuff. That gun is a Gamo air pistol. Not sure why someone
would want to take their gun on a tubing trip, but he didn't get to take it home.
You would think that all the good stuff would be close to the surface, but it's not.
The river bottom must move alot because the only objects that are not down a few
inches are the stuff that floats, like sunglasses. I looked at the shoppers cards to see
if you could still read the plu code on them, there wasn't one that could be read.
I did find a digital camera down about 4 inches, with the batteries and memory card
still inside. I took the camera home and pulled the memory card out with a pair of
pliers and cleaned it off and stuck it into my reader. The card still worked, and I was
able to look at the pictures that someone took at the river before their camera went for a
swim.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

All my wild horses, it looks like you rolled a pawn shop !

Keep @ It and HH !!

 

[bigwater]

That's like hunting the middle section of the Ocoee after they turn the water off. It's a dam controlled river where they're generating electricity when the water is running through the flumes down the side of the river and the river bed is dry, but they're collecting revenue from the 200,000 tourists that raft down it during the summer months when they divert the water back into the river bed. I've been guiding up there on weekends for 20 years now during the summer months... taking tourists down the river and watching them lose expensive rings, watches, wallets that were in ziplock baggies to keep them dry. Blah blah blah. I tell every customer before they get on the river to take anything that isn't physically attached to them by surgical methods back to the car, or they will lose it. "Oh, my ring is so tight it could never come off". Right. That river will suck anything you have on your body right off of it in the right circumstances.

In the summer evenings after they shut the water off and divert it back into the flume after a full day of bumper to bumper Disney Land style pushing customers down the river, you can find many of us raft guides snorkling in the deeper holes that are left as the river dries up. Some of the stuff we pull out of there is incredible, and the chances of ever finding the original owner of most of it is near impossible unless you just turn it into lost and found at the ranger station. The cheap junk always gets turned in, as well as a wallet with identifiable personal information in it (although the cash from the wallet usually won't make it), but a lot of guides come away with some real finds out of those holes on the weekends... the occasional 2 carat diamond ring or Rolex watch that some bonehead wore down the river... The honest ones will make a flyer offering to return it to the owner, but they rarely get called so they end up getting to keep it. But nobody turns the valuable stuff into lost and found because it just disappearsi into some national park service employee's pocket after it hasn't been claimed in a couple of months.

 

[olepossum]

hey any of you folks in arizona ever md or prospect on the paloverde river that runs east and west of pheonix on the south side of town after the spring thaw goes away i used to live htere we would replenish our sand box asa a kid with sand from the river and get rocks to landscape our yard i always wanted to md it as a kid and now i would love to prospect it for gold but i am here in missouri maybe some day

 

[cntrydncr1]

Awesome pics and fantastic finds too! congrats

 

[Native1858]

Looks like great fun. I walk the river bottoms here occasionally for peace of mind, and to see what I come across. I also like to walk the ski lifts in the summer looking for stuff.

 

[CamoQueen]

Great finds!! I love the salt river!! What part of the river was that at??

 

[UncleVinnys]

Yeah, I lost ALL of that stuff - - back in '87 . . .

but, tell you whut - You can Keep It all - I don't need it any more.