Decided to go out on a hunt on the main logging road this afternoon. It's around 50 degrees so it's relatively warm but the wind is blowing a bit. Anyway we'll leave from my backyard and trek downhill to the logging road.
If ya look in the top pic left side about half way up you can see a road heading into the woods. We gonna follow that down to the main log trail and we'll walk around the mountain at the base of the pastures, which is about 1 mile then back up the hillside to the upper logging road.
This is the landing area where the logs are dragged and processed for hauling. It's been awhile since they logged this section. But as you can see the road gets washed down periodically. It leads around the side of the mountain and down to a creek that leads to the river.
This is one of my main search areas. The pic just above is immediately down from the landing area and the pic above that shows how much washout we have that ends in the creek.
This is about a 1 foot square area that is typical of what I hunt in. I do a lot of flipping to check the pieces out.
Most of what I find I put in a pile along side the road so I don't wind up handling it again.
The creek washes over the mountain for about a 30 foot drop over a huge bolder that caps off a rockhouse.
If you find the green area in the upper left of the pic, it traverses the pic to the lower right side. That marks the rockhouse area. It's only about 15 - 20 feet deep and 20 feet tall but there's plenty of room to walk around behind the falls. Legend has it - they used to have a still in there and I can believe it. The ground in there is hard as cement from all the traffic but there's nothing there now. I have done some digging and found spalls, chips and a couple of broken points but so far, that's all. (Cont'd in next post)
If ya look in the top pic left side about half way up you can see a road heading into the woods. We gonna follow that down to the main log trail and we'll walk around the mountain at the base of the pastures, which is about 1 mile then back up the hillside to the upper logging road.
This is the landing area where the logs are dragged and processed for hauling. It's been awhile since they logged this section. But as you can see the road gets washed down periodically. It leads around the side of the mountain and down to a creek that leads to the river.
This is one of my main search areas. The pic just above is immediately down from the landing area and the pic above that shows how much washout we have that ends in the creek.
This is about a 1 foot square area that is typical of what I hunt in. I do a lot of flipping to check the pieces out.
Most of what I find I put in a pile along side the road so I don't wind up handling it again.
The creek washes over the mountain for about a 30 foot drop over a huge bolder that caps off a rockhouse.
If you find the green area in the upper left of the pic, it traverses the pic to the lower right side. That marks the rockhouse area. It's only about 15 - 20 feet deep and 20 feet tall but there's plenty of room to walk around behind the falls. Legend has it - they used to have a still in there and I can believe it. The ground in there is hard as cement from all the traffic but there's nothing there now. I have done some digging and found spalls, chips and a couple of broken points but so far, that's all. (Cont'd in next post)
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