Thursday, August 14, 2008

Old Dirty Mines

Daily it occurs to me that I suck at keeping this blog up to date, when in fact I have plenty of stuff to post. It only appears that I have a boring, stupid life, when in reality its quite excited; but probly still stupid.


My friend Bowdie and I have been fourwheeling and checking out several mines up on the Willard Fault line. Basically its been some great fourwheeler rides, with a lot of insanely steeping hinking. Several days ago we found the mines we had heard about, but ran out of time and didnt get to go into them. Last night we returned with a shovel to dig the hole out so we could fit and found a wonderful surprise...lots and lots of red mud!















Bowdie's new Polaris side by side Ranger Rzr. Very nice to ride in.













Me at Inspiration point and Bowdie over looking Ogden.
This is a old house of some sort near one of the mine entrances. We saw lots of mountain goats running all over up there. This is a good example of the area we were hiking, and climbing through. Several days earlier I climbed up above where these goats are. It ended up being several hundred feet up with no rope and in the dark!
Most of the mine entrances were closed from dirt and rocks falling into them so we had to dig and sweeze into them.
It was pretty fun exploring these mines, but it was way muddy.