Allen in MT Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Was out to a friends private claims and was running around looking for all the remnants of old mining cabin sites which there are quit a number spread over the mountain. Was a nice day in the 50's with a slight breeze. Found one site that he new about that was the site of the 1st cabin on the claims about mid 1860's, the place was lived in till the early teens. Found one of the old outhouses and started digging it out looking for old bottles, didn't find any, did some detecting, nothing. Anyway we ran across this black bear 2 times in the same spot and noticed a bunch of ravens in the trees, so we investigated and found a whitetail deer carcus that the bear was eating on. On the way out we decieded to take another look at it and found that the bear had covered it with dirt, bark and pine needles for a future meal. He was probably off in the bushes watching us but I had never seen anything like this before. The bear was to spooky and fast to get a good picture. Back to the task at hand we did manage to GPS 6 sites with many more to do and then will GPS all the prospect holes and mines and put them on a map just for something to do. There was mining all over this place and at one time there were several thousand people here. enjoy and hagd Allen in MT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldkatt7 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Pretty unique behaviour to say the least Allen... cool pic tho....thanks. ~wyld~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagdoctor1 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Putting all that data on a map sounds like neato fun to me man. I love stuff like that. I seek patterns in everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuger Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Pretty unique behaviour to say the least Allen... cool pic tho....thanks. ~wyld~ Actually that is not that uncommon behavior at all,both bears and lions will often cover they prey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimi Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Aloha Allen, Just FYI, I also have been doing some outhouse digging and have found that the last outhouse we dug yeiled nothing of value. We then looked at the area very carefully and determined that the outhouse had been moved several times. After the second hole we hit the jackpot. Loads of old bottles and even an old miners lamp. This might have been the trash hole as well as the outhouse. I would go back and double check them spots. Good luck. Aloha, Stan aka Kaimi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogMick Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 It's a crappy job, but somebody has gotta do it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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