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PROSPECTORMIKEL
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- Mar 31, 2011
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O man. The second pic shows me standing on the same level as the vault floor. The opening that Weekender was kneeling in, in the earlier set of pics, is just off to my left ( the right side of the pic).
As to the elevation, it's a little confusing, as we had to lower ourselves down from the top of the bluff line with a rope, then climb back up the hill to get to that level. So I think it is nearer to the top than to the bottom of the newly transformed bluff line.
If you look around in both pics, you can see several scrape marks, where large stones have rubbed against the remaining stones.
One of the scrapes lines up with the
"Doorway" to the vault. I measured the door area and compared those dimensions to stones below the level that I stood in the second pic.
We found one that was as wide and a few that were tall enough but too short
These differences and the debris field tend to be evidence that there was a large amount of water blown thru the cracks and crevasses, and may have scattered anything that was in there very far away. That's why we went downward with our detectors...
Weekender went much farther than I went ( I was completely worn out and had to stay close to the cool rocks to keep from overheating. My legs were very near complete shutdown.
The truth of the matter is, that Weekender made at least three trips back up the hill to his four-wheeler taking his pack the first time and coming back to the point that I had made, twice as I pulled my way up the rope that he had tied near the top of the steep incline then once to get the rope, and I think one more time to get my last small pack and had it all strapped down before I made it back.
That was when we declared "No more summer trips..."
Far too dangerous for me.
All that being said... I'm glad that we didn't give up on the site. We may never find any silver, but he will know enough after our next trip to carry on without me if my health continues to decline to the point that can not go any longer.
This story is too important to let it die.
#/:0{>~
P. S. There is a corner in the bluff line,
But no, we don't see anything that makes us think that the vault turns back in that direction.
Yet.
As to the elevation, it's a little confusing, as we had to lower ourselves down from the top of the bluff line with a rope, then climb back up the hill to get to that level. So I think it is nearer to the top than to the bottom of the newly transformed bluff line.
If you look around in both pics, you can see several scrape marks, where large stones have rubbed against the remaining stones.
One of the scrapes lines up with the
"Doorway" to the vault. I measured the door area and compared those dimensions to stones below the level that I stood in the second pic.
We found one that was as wide and a few that were tall enough but too short
These differences and the debris field tend to be evidence that there was a large amount of water blown thru the cracks and crevasses, and may have scattered anything that was in there very far away. That's why we went downward with our detectors...
Weekender went much farther than I went ( I was completely worn out and had to stay close to the cool rocks to keep from overheating. My legs were very near complete shutdown.
The truth of the matter is, that Weekender made at least three trips back up the hill to his four-wheeler taking his pack the first time and coming back to the point that I had made, twice as I pulled my way up the rope that he had tied near the top of the steep incline then once to get the rope, and I think one more time to get my last small pack and had it all strapped down before I made it back.
That was when we declared "No more summer trips..."
Far too dangerous for me.
All that being said... I'm glad that we didn't give up on the site. We may never find any silver, but he will know enough after our next trip to carry on without me if my health continues to decline to the point that can not go any longer.
This story is too important to let it die.
#/:0{>~
P. S. There is a corner in the bluff line,
But no, we don't see anything that makes us think that the vault turns back in that direction.
Yet.
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