Great backpacking/ fishing trip

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:17 am

Fishing was alittle slow but we caught enough to eat.

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

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by **RonE** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:23 am

Looks like a fun trip.

by **jarbo03** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:26 am

Looks like a great time Aaron.

by **Eric Haynes** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:26 am

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

by **Eric Haynes** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:28 am

Looks like a fun trip to me!

When you say wild onions, are you talking leeks?

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:38 am

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

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:39 am

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

by **Eric Haynes** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:41 am

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

by **R. Chapman** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:44 am

Nice!

by **assateague** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:58 am

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

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:00 pm

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

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

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by **hudson** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:05 pm

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

by **QH's Paw** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:05 pm

Looks like a good time Red.

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:05 pm

Boy tapatalk effed that all up

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:11 pm

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

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

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:15 pm

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

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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.

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by **3legged_lab** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:19 pm

Looks like ya had a good trip, potent ginger.

by **R. Chapman** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:33 pm

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

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:46 pm

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.

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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

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by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:46 pm

Fucking tapatalk

by **3legged_lab** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:50 pm

Nice palm tree?

by **WisconsinWaterfowler** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:51 pm

Looks like a hell of a trip!

by **QH's Paw** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:32 pm

Red, the new frog man. :lol:

by **quackhead** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:55 pm

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.

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:56 pm

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by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:57 pm

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

by **Redbeard** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:02 pm

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

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by **gila-river** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:46 pm

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

by **Eric Haynes** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:56 pm

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?

by **AKPirate** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:00 pm

Great trip and great rundown Aaron!