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Wildfire532FB
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So i took my parents down to the mining area and we walked around and i took some better pictures of things. On the way back up the road i wanted to stop at this one place i've seen everytime i drive down. So we stop there and it turns out its the bottom of the huge hydromining. What i was seeing was the drainage ditches that bring all the water into another huge shaft and under the road and out the otherside somewhere.
Then my parents and i went to the old mining towns cementary and the poor miners only got some welded train track as a cross but some of the rich ones got head stones.
Heres the pics
This is the shaft under the bridge on the downstream side
This is the bridge that washed away, you can see it in the water.
This is the shaft on the upstream side, its the side we first discovered
This is why they call it Steep Hallow Creek
Heres the sleuthbox that washed down stream and rested next to the shaft
This is wear the bridge would have crossed
This is what the land looks like after Hydromining in the Late 1800s
If you can imagine a mountain right in the middle of that then you'll know how the land looked like before. What they did was dig a drift mine into the mountain with several shafts going in different directions and then they filled each shaft with tons of TNT and blew the entire mountain up and then used the big water cannons to wash the dirt and rock down into their sleuthboxes to collect the gold.
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Wildfire532FB
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At the top of that mountain on the left a mansion used to reside there but they tore it down and moved it after the mine was shut down
Heres some of the drainage, people seem to like to dump garbage everywhere ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) Some of the garbage i found though is from the early 1900s, i found an old truck bed, some truck seats, someone dumped oil filters and old air filters, a lot of tires. I didn't hike far into the hydromining though maybe i'll find an old Model T or something
Kinda creepy walking around a cementary where several people were buried in the 1860s
The Jeep chillin where the old mining buildings might have been
All this is within a 5-10 minute drive from my house
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Wildfire532FB
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Maybe next weekend or soon i am going to take the Jeep through the 4x4 trails and i will get pics of that cause it should be hella fun with the huge ruts and rocks i'll have to crawl over.
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You got a sweet back yard/road. I would be doing the same thing. Except I would be on a dirt bike and strolling all around there. Keep posting pics and locations that you find ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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damn judging from the pics it looks like an awesome place to go check out.. cool pics man.
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That must have been a site to see. Ive always loved grass valley/nevada city area. Whenever i go to my aunts in gv theirs always something new. you should check out the yuba river sometime.
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Wildfire532FB
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Originally posted by 925five.0:
That must have been a site to see. Ive always loved grass valley/nevada city area. Whenever i go to my aunts in gv theirs always something new. you should check out the yuba river sometime.
All last summer i went to the Yuba River a million times and went swimming. Had hella fun. Next time your up here let me know.
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believe it or not, but ive been down there before. my aunt lived in the area when i was young and she took me to that creek to go swimming. thats a cool area.
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Originally posted by bigg matt:
believe it or not, but ive been down there before. my aunt lived in the area when i was young and she took me to that creek to go swimming. thats a cool area.
was the water deep when you swam in it? Its not very deep now, was the bridge there when you went down there?
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bridge was washed out and no, the water wasnt deep. it was fun gettin there in a beat up old chevy 4x4 though. i dont remember much though. but i know a lot of cool places up there. have you taken chaulk bluff all the way through yet?
have you taken the green horn all the way up the canyon yet? try and find blue hole, its a old mining area that is now a lake. the water is deep blue and from what i hear real deep. its a cool place to go in the summer.
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Wildfire532FB
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Originally posted by bigg matt:
bridge was washed out and no, the water wasnt deep. it was fun gettin there in a beat up old chevy 4x4 though. i dont remember much though. but i know a lot of cool places up there. have you taken chaulk bluff all the way through yet?
have you taken the green horn all the way up the canyon yet? try and find blue hole, its a old mining area that is now a lake. the water is deep blue and from what i hear real deep. its a cool place to go in the summer.
I have wheeled all the way up Greenhorn i am going to hike chaulk bluff thanksgiving day maybe. You didn't swim in the blue hole did you? I will have to find this area but i won't swim in it they've been testing the waters around the mining areas and have been finding that most of it is incredibly posionous.
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Wildfire532FB
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Originally posted by bigg matt:
bridge was washed out and no, the water wasnt deep. it was fun gettin there in a beat up old chevy 4x4 though. i dont remember much though. but i know a lot of cool places up there. have you taken chaulk bluff all the way through yet?
have you taken the green horn all the way up the canyon yet? try and find blue hole, its a old mining area that is now a lake. the water is deep blue and from what i hear real deep. its a cool place to go in the summer.
I have wheeled all the way up Greenhorn i am going to hike chaulk bluff thanksgiving day maybe. You didn't swim in the blue hole did you? I will have to find this area but i won't swim in it they've been testing the waters around the mining areas and have been finding that most of it is incredibly posionous.
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bigg matt
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ya, i swam in it and i turned out ok
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Be safe man!! Love them pictures. Where is this place located again?
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