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Fishing was alittle slow but we caught enough to eat.


Not pictured on those filets are the wild celery, wild ginger and wild onions

Looks like a fun trip.

Looks like a great time Aaron.

Red just posted those pictures so we could see him shirtless.

Looks like a fun trip to me!

When you say wild onions, are you talking leeks?

Eric Haynes wrote:Red just posted those pictures so we could see him shirtless.

stand by and I'll post some of me in my chonies

Eric Haynes wrote:Looks like a fun trip to me!

When you say wild onions, are you talking leeks?

no these were actual onions. Tiny little bulbs. We only found two. But the celery and ginger was everywhere. Very tasty and very potent

Redbeard wrote:

Eric Haynes wrote:Looks like a fun trip to me!

When you say wild onions, are you talking leeks?

no these were actual onions. Tiny little bulbs. We only found two. But the celery and ginger was everywhere. Very tasty and very potent

Sounds good. I don't think we have any wild onion here, just leeks is why I asked. I bet that ginger was potent

Nice!

Don't even try to pretend like you noodled that fish, Putin.

Eric Haynes wrote:

Redbeard wrote:

Eric Haynes wrote:Looks like a fun trip to me!

When you say wild onions, are you talking leeks?

no these were actual onions. Tiny little bulbs. We only found two. But the celery and ginger was everywhere. Very tasty and very potent

Sounds good. I don't think we have any wild onion here, just leeks is why I asked. I bet that ginger was potent

it was.

My buddy's dad, Indian Hal, came with us. He brought his pack horse so we could pack in some good food and heavier items.

This guy was cool as shit. A real character. Quick run down on him. Half Indian. Moved out to Nor Cal in the late 70's and bought a mining claim in this same area we camped. Lived there for 4-5 years in an old abandoned miner's cabin that was included in his claim. His first born was born in that cabin. No roads in this area. Eventually bought an old dirt bike to help haul supplies up the trail. Would ditch the bike in a small draw and ride a small cable car he strung up across the canyon and river to his cabin.
He now lives bout 10 miles from the trailhead on a few acres.

These folks up here are completely off the grid. Only electricity is those with solar panels.

Friday we hiked to Hal's old claim he lost years ago to the Feds.

This is one of the mining camps he used. That's him on the left

This pile of rocks is a grave for a miner who died in the 30's

Damn red looks like a hell of a time.Always amazes me on how clear yalls water is

Looks like a good time Red.

Boy tapatalk effed that all up

All these rocks were carried up the mountain by the first miners to settle here. They'd run water through em from a flume above down to their sluice boxes below. Amazing how many hundreds of thousands of basketball sized rocks were carried up

Hal said this area was big nugget country. Not much dust. Mostly nuggets

He found an old cave where he still had some old mining gear stashed away

He had high hopes for this gravel bar when he lost his mine. Said he was saving it. Expected big pay dirt under those rocks.

Looks like ya had a good trip, potent ginger.

I'm jealous. That's just some cool stuff.

We pitched our tents on the sandbar of this hole about 15 yards from the water. The hole, fed by two creeks, was loaded with about 40+ steelhead and salmon ranging from 6-20 pounds. There were two monster salmon in this pool.



Hal had a homemade scuba system. Two small tanks he'd pumped up with a bike pump attached to that yellow hose attached to the regulator. I'll be damned if it didn't work. We could sit on the bottom of that pool and watch the fish circle us for 5-6 minutes at a time. That small burlap sack was our weight belt...filled with sand

Fucking tapatalk

Nice palm tree?

Looks like a hell of a trip!

Red, the new frog man.

Looks like a blast! I wouldn't have been able to help myself, I would've done a little panning. A lot of those rocks were in the channels they cut. They run the water and material through them and then when it was time to clean up they would stack them and scoop up the gold. They eventually added burlap in the bottom also. They started realizing how much gold they lost just doing the basic hydraulic ing. The chinamen would come work these claims afterwards and cleanup all the fines. They were much more effecient since they always got the leftovers.

quackhead wrote:Looks like a blast! I wouldn't have been able to help myself, I would've done a little panning. A lot of those rocks were in the channels they cut. They run the water and material through them and then when it was time to clean up they would stack them and scoop up the gold. They eventually added burlap in the bottom also. They started realizing how much gold they lost just doing the basic hydraulic ing. The chinamen would come work these claims afterwards and cleanup all the fines. They were much more effecient since they always got the leftovers.

he said the exact same thing about the chinamen

And I couldn't even get one of the assholes I went with to help me apply my sunscreen

That is freaking Awesome Red, love historic stuff like that.

gila-river wrote:That is freaking Awesome Red, love historic stuff like that.

That sunburn is pretty historic.

Red, did you say "no homo" before asking them to sunscreen your back?

Great trip and great rundown Aaron!