Escape from Summit County

[RGINN]

Went back down to Hecla Junction and camped last night. Little different than it looked last week. Great weather, 60's in the day and 38 at night. One light shower came through but didn't amount to much. Very windy though. On the way back from about Granite to Frisco the road was icy and snow covered, and only 6 above on Fremont Pass. Found part of an artifact that someone had tossed down on my campsite. Wish I knew where they found it. I covered a lot of country and never spotted another piece of the same material.

 

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[WannaDig3687]

That is beautiful country! Wonderful photos!

 

[tamrock]

That's what ya find in the upper Arkansas. The artifacts I've found are mostly the material stuff from the trout creek area, but every now and then you'll find something made of material transported from regions father away. It was a well known place to go in the warmer month by many peoples and no doubt a time of happiness when the tribal leaders announced to the others it is time to go to the upper regions of the Arkansas river. I'll bet a 5 pound trout was an average size fish from river back then as I did read someplace that when, president or former at the time Grant came through Buena Vista they celebrated a dinner with trout caught from the river and none on the menu where under 5 pounds. You know that went on for thousands years before we all came to love the place. Some of the points and pieces I've found are characteristic of ones more often found in New Mexico and I believe people from there came to where your at from the Rio Grande region and others came through South Park via Wilkerson pass and Kenosha pass from the plains. For all I know that piece maybe came from Kansas originally. , but it may possible to I.D. the material by looking at imagines online

 

[worldtalker]

Went back down to Hecla Junction and camped last night. Little different than it looked last week. Great weather, 60's in the day and 38 at night. One light shower came through but didn't amount to much. Very windy though. On the way back from about Granite to Frisco the road was icy and snow covered, and only 6 above on Fremont Pass. Found part of an artifact that someone had tossed down on my campsite. Wish I knew where they found it. I covered a lot of country and never spotted another piece of the same material.

They toss the skull too?

 

[RGINN]

That's a broke piece, probably the butt end of a pre-form of yellow jasper from over at Trout Creek. It was recently just tossed down there. Good eye, worldtalker. That cow skull came from Oklahoma and I've had it in the back of my truck for awhile, and thought I'd just toss it down in the pic for a joke.