That's the place! I got within about 20 miles of it, but the driver at the time refused to take me there for a look see. I was just a little bit peeved to say the least!
Mick
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That's the place! I got within about 20 miles of it, but the driver at the time refused to take me there for a look see. I was just a little bit peeved to say the least!
Mick
The old towns are still kind of going concerns. Still folks around and a lot of those pics were taken from the fence because the gate to them is locked. I know there must a lot of neat old stuff laying about but somebody still has ownership. Most of what killed 'em was the interstate highway system. They got bypassed and folks don't stop and get tires fixed or buy gas and get grub. The small ranchers and hard scrabble farmers gave up and moved to the city and the big ranches bought 'em out. People moved to the big town and never went back. The towns of Gordon, Thurber, Mingus, and Strawn pretty much died when the coal mines closed because oil was cheaper to burn in the locomotives back in the thirties and then coughed and gave a death rattle in the fifties during the drought when the small family ranches and farms went broke.Quote:
Originally Posted by heelerau
I've pilfered around a lot of houses and buildings and I don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but tracks. Seen a lot of stuff I'd like to have toted off but I can't make myself do it.
Met a cowpoke out near Strawn that has lived there since he was a pup. He and I hit it off and he offered to take me and the missus out to a couple of the old mines that were abandoned in the 30's and he lives in the middle of what used to be a town. I asked him what kind of beer he liked and he said cool or cold, didn't much matter to him, so I'll show up with a couple of cases and I suspect we'll have some fun trying out our new fancy metal detectors and trooping around the boonies. :)
Figured I'd wait till it cooled a bit more so the missus won't have to worry with the rattle snakes. She ain't the least bit skeered of snakes. I'm just worried she'd try to make a pet out of one of the damn things. :gaah:
Guess I should have said to look at, rather than implying to nick !! I know station owners out back get pissy when off road tourists raid their dumps. for old bottles and the like. I guess someone owns these places still even if it is not apparent.Quote:
Originally Posted by donv
Cheers
Heelerau
Wullei, I think I may be living with a close relative of your wifes!!
I got a couple more from my phone. I don't know why it has to be such a production.
The first is an old grain drill with a tree growing in the tongue.
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Next is my boy following me down the hill after we slid the deer down.
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This one I found when looking through the pictures. It is at Divide lake in northern MN. It is along the Laurentian Divide. If you take a leak on one side of the road it will go to Hudson Bay. On the other side it will go to Lake Superior.:)
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I wanna go fishing there!
Me too !!!
LOL - not me! Looks cold :). I'll take fishing in Jamaica over a nice lake up north any day lol!!
You wuss! Then again, I'm not all that crazy about snagging Jaws, either!Quote:
Originally Posted by earcutter
Anne/MLA
I have snagged a few Jaws! It's great fun but lb for lb... give me a barracuda any day! Hmmm... odd that my nick-name for the wife is my barracuda lol~Quote:
Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus
She is an atty!Quote:
Originally Posted by earcutter
All the fun went out of fishing for me when I ran out of hand grenades....... :(
Still laughing... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wullie
Thats cool.done that:) ever go Salmon Fishing on the Sacramento river with an M16??Quote:
Originally Posted by Wullie
I have.(back in the crazy Daze,alcohol was involved)very effective,but the kali DFG took away my fishing license for 10 years:(
Uh you think lol??Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
Kali DFG and CHP have no sense of humor....Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
Never went after salmon with a 16 but an M-60 will elevate fish to new heights. :gwh:
It wasn't cold at all when that picture was taken but I have ice fished there a few times. A nice little lake with nice little trout. No record setters but I have eaten a few meals from that spot. Under the cattails is a rotting tree that a couple of years ago a 14 to 16 incher got caught in as I was reeling it in. My wife was laughing her ass of as I stripped down to my underwear to go get it. About 6 feet from shore I was up to my neck trying to unwrap the fish. :roflmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by earcutter
Try a worm Wullie, hand grenades make waves and disturb the serenity!
Tim
Ever go ice fishing with an M2 50 cal? I did this once in Korea, a good time was had by all involved!
Sounds like fun! Did you get any fish?Quote:
Originally Posted by nun2sharp
I doubt there was enough left of any fish to identify after a session with Ma Deuce.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
MORE COWBELL!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlvF...eature=related
I dont know, I was laughing too hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
All this talk of shootin' reminded me of a photo I took of a speed limit billboard a few years back.
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Taken in the same area Mt Ruapehu.
Central Plateau of the North Island of New Zealand. Our most active mainland volcano.
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So which island of New Zillund is "the main" land? :p
Mick
Well Mick.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
NZ is a bit literal in it's naming.
The 'indigenous' Maori people named it "Aotearoa" - the Land of the Long White Cloud
Captain Cook followed this simple pattern and went with North & South Islands for the 2 main land masses.
The "Mainland" is what the South Islanders also refer to their island as.
The West Islanders also have an alternate name for their island...
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:rofl2:
Mick
Taken at an older cemetery in Cambria on the California central coast a couple of years ago.
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I haven't seen anything posted here for quite a while. I thought it was high time to breathe some life into it. It was so nice here today I went on a short road trip. Just a fifty mile round trip with the dog as co-pilot.
Table Mountain, Oroville
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Oregon City on TM
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Old Bank in Cherokee
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Hydraulic monitor
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Hill hydraulic mined
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Happy CA beef critter
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Yes, time to get some life back in this thread.
I miss being able to see the off-the-beaten-track photos. I made sure I put in a beef critter for Wullie!! Heck, I have no excuse not to go out and showcase some of the cool things around here. Like I mentioned, this was fifty miles, round trip from home. I already asked my son if he wants to go for a ride tomorrow or the next day. Try to take a picture on crutches, holding a very eager dog on a leash!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
Next trip will be, Smartsville CA, just up from Timbuctoo, or up the Feather River Canyon.
I'll now post some more from today!!
Here's some pictures from today, more than six on one post seemed a bit much!!
for some reason, there are quite a few random palm trees out in rice country
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Red Top rice dryers in Biggs Ca
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Swans on to the right of the last pic
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a goofy hawk sitting twenty feet in front of me!
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Love that Hawk. I see them everyday on my way to my son's school, gotta get some pics.
Hirlau!! Please do post some road pics. I'm sure this thread will be back on track soon. Remember, if you post it, they will come.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
Road signs
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A hawk by my son's school, a week or two ago.
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I ate at Burger King & shared a French Fry with a squirrel.
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You can see the road I came in on and if it wasn't so smoggy you could see 2 other counties in the distance. Like Wullie I used to travel about 200 miles a day minimum and see some pretty cool stuff. I am busting that rock up so it doesn't roll down the hill on those new houses someday. It was kind of hanging out on the slope and the geologist wanted it down to sign off on the job site. I had to lay out a 1,000 feet of air line to get power up there so it's about 650 ft. up.
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As for the critter shot I found this guy in the middle of the road one day. Hit by a car I guess. We quickly trusted each other and after about 7 weeks he was doing good. I turned him over to a bird rehab place because he needed a flight cage to gain his strength back before he could fly far enough to release. I got him to about 100' but then he would crash and burn.
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No leash, he just sat there with one hell of a grip on my hand. I took him to Pet Smart one day. Bad idea. He was calm but the girls that worked there no longer thought he was cool when I told them I brought him to pick out his own dinner. They no longer sold me rats or mice and I had to drive another 5 miles to get him food. I left him in the truck :<0).
Hi Gang!! I went on another road trip today in the foothills above me to the East. Ended up in Forbestown Ca, 2820 foot elevation and fifty minutes away. Just getting into the good pines. The weather didn't cooperate, started out nice white clouds breaking up and ended up in a light rain. Hope you'all like them!
The Forbestown Road pines are getting bigger
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Old roadside spring
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the inscription at the spring says, PURE WATER IS THE BEST OF GIFTS MAN TO MAN CAN BRING
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the Forbestown store and post office
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Here's the end of the adventure, lower in the hills.
Nice old rock house.
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Nice barn
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bridge on Swedes Flat rd
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If these ran, Wullie could operate them!
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The Sutter Buttes from Swedes Flat rd
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Odd sunset to end the trip, just a very colourful glow.
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Beautiful pics, Don.
That's it... I got to get out more. Most of the road trips I take are long distance these days. 1500 to 1700 miles 3 days to a week. Maybe I'll do one of those surf to ski weekends soon. Or get out some darts and the maps maybe.
I've been having fun trying to find things I think others might like, but really close to home. I'm trying to give people a little view into what's around here. For as long as I can remember, if I met someone from out of state probably the first thing I will ask is, "what's it like where you're from"? What I love around here is, it can change so much in such a little distance. Some things I don't post, I figure people would be bored by them, I'm really interested in history, but I don't think anyone really cares about some of what I like. I did run across a monument to California's first rapper. It's where he tried to rob a stage. I figure he was a rapper, he was a criminal, and wrote verses inspired by his crimes, "Black Bart, the Po8." Maybe my next trip I'll take the #1 son and go up into the snow, there's a place there where it looks like the water runs uphill. I know!!! I'm sure you can't wait to see that!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 10Pups
Ah, what the heck, here's the Black Bart thing. It used to have a gun, but someone chipped it out years ago.
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No I hate history, why else would I shave with a cut-throat :p. That's my sarcastic way of saying post the history, what is one mans trash is anothers treasure, as the saying goes. Same reason why you never get a reasonable answer to the question, "What's it like where you're from?" People from 'there' usually find it dull :).
Mick
