06-24-2020, 10:35 PM
(06-24-2020, 09:30 PM)BIAD Wrote: Well, maybe the old gal had come in early to miss the rain... yeah, that must be it.
Awesome family story!
Where I live there are ghost towns nobody even knows about and hundreds of abandoned mines that are not on maps anymore.
One of my hobbies is tracking them down and visiting them.
They are scattered all over 1.7 million acres of National forest that mostly has no roads, much less paths.
There is one we go to that is a 4 mile walk up a mountainside, it isn't on a map.
When you go into the mine it goes straight into the mountain for about 200 yards and opens up to a circular area that was once a huge ball of quartz.
They drug everything out that they could, but left a pillar in the middle to support the space.
So you have an 80 foot space with a huge column of quartz in the middle.
We go camping there sometimes... it's about 60 degrees in there no matter what the temp outside and is absolutely stunning to see if you light a campfire up in there.
A billion points of light from the quartz.
I've some stories to share too eventually...