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<blockquote data-quote="The Trinity Kid" data-source="post: 1378066" data-attributes="member: 91382"><p>The first time I made it out was the 23. Me and a friend drove away from town about two miles, then up the road that goes to the fire lookout outside of town, on top of a 7000ft mountain. We went up to about 4500ft, then parked and started out walk. There is an old mining ditch that runs across the face of the mountain (it supplied water from up higher to a mine about 10 miles away. Impressive engineering, but that's another story), and we followed this ditch. We came across this track about 100 yards down the trail.[ATTACH=full]86473[/ATTACH]The temperature at that elevation was about 30F and the forecast called for snow. It didn't snow while we were out, but it did snow earlier that morning around 3am.</p><p>This next picture is the first place we stopped to glass. The other side of the canyon is 600 yards. We were there for maybe 40 minutes before pushing on.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]86474[/ATTACH]Remember earlier I mentioned a mining ditch? Well, this is a siphon on that ditch. Basically what this is, is a way for them to get water across a canyon that was too deep/far for a trestle, and the ridge didn't continue on for the ditch itself. So what they would do is put a pipe and run it straight down the side of the mountain and back up the other side. The pressure generated by the water falling was enough to push it back up the other side a ways, sometime to within 10 feet of the beginning elevation. Most of these siphons were disassembled and the steel sold for the war effort in the first World War, but some were too far out to be worth carting a 24" diameter steel pipe in 25-50 foot sections by mule.</p><p> [ATTACH=full]86475[/ATTACH]After the first glassing spot, the terrain decided not to lend itself to seeing anything. For most of the next mile, visibility was limited to about 15 yards. This picture was looking down from the trail into the gully from a seasonal creek. [ATTACH=full]86476[/ATTACH]This picture is of some sort of scrape. The ground was too hard to leave tracks in the mud, and pine needle duff isn't exactly great track laying material. There were several more, but this one was most impressive. But this is where we got the closest to a bear that day. We heard it up the hill about 15-20 yards down the trail, walking through the brush, but we never got a look at it. The foliage was too thick to fight through quietly, and he caught our wind. We continued on the trail because it wrapped back around and would offer a ~500 yard shot back at this spot. Naturally he was gone by then, but it was our best option just then.[ATTACH=full]86477[/ATTACH]This was a track we found in the same general area as the last picture. The 280 cartridge is there for a size comparison, but this picture just doesn't do it any justice. My best guess is that this was a 6-foot bear in the 250lb zone. I think I've seen it before when I was scouting the area in May and early June.[ATTACH=full]86478[/ATTACH]I think this picture shows how thick and steep the area is pretty well. The trail is going up right there, and the brush you see on both sides of the trail is thinner than that just off camera.[ATTACH=full]86479[/ATTACH]This picture is as we were coming into the edge of a wildfire area from the summer. If you're curious, just google "Helena Fire California 2017."[ATTACH=full]86480[/ATTACH]Another of a handline a helicopter crew put in. The fire jumped it up higher, but stopped at a secondary line.[ATTACH=full]86481[/ATTACH]This is a tree that before the fire was perfectly round, and 5 feet in diameter. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]86482[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Apparently you can only upload 10 pictures at a time, so on to part 2 of day 1.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Trinity Kid, post: 1378066, member: 91382"] The first time I made it out was the 23. Me and a friend drove away from town about two miles, then up the road that goes to the fire lookout outside of town, on top of a 7000ft mountain. We went up to about 4500ft, then parked and started out walk. There is an old mining ditch that runs across the face of the mountain (it supplied water from up higher to a mine about 10 miles away. Impressive engineering, but that's another story), and we followed this ditch. We came across this track about 100 yards down the trail.[ATTACH=full]86473[/ATTACH]The temperature at that elevation was about 30F and the forecast called for snow. It didn't snow while we were out, but it did snow earlier that morning around 3am. This next picture is the first place we stopped to glass. The other side of the canyon is 600 yards. We were there for maybe 40 minutes before pushing on. [ATTACH=full]86474[/ATTACH]Remember earlier I mentioned a mining ditch? Well, this is a siphon on that ditch. Basically what this is, is a way for them to get water across a canyon that was too deep/far for a trestle, and the ridge didn't continue on for the ditch itself. So what they would do is put a pipe and run it straight down the side of the mountain and back up the other side. The pressure generated by the water falling was enough to push it back up the other side a ways, sometime to within 10 feet of the beginning elevation. Most of these siphons were disassembled and the steel sold for the war effort in the first World War, but some were too far out to be worth carting a 24" diameter steel pipe in 25-50 foot sections by mule. [ATTACH=full]86475[/ATTACH]After the first glassing spot, the terrain decided not to lend itself to seeing anything. For most of the next mile, visibility was limited to about 15 yards. This picture was looking down from the trail into the gully from a seasonal creek. [ATTACH=full]86476[/ATTACH]This picture is of some sort of scrape. The ground was too hard to leave tracks in the mud, and pine needle duff isn't exactly great track laying material. There were several more, but this one was most impressive. But this is where we got the closest to a bear that day. We heard it up the hill about 15-20 yards down the trail, walking through the brush, but we never got a look at it. The foliage was too thick to fight through quietly, and he caught our wind. We continued on the trail because it wrapped back around and would offer a ~500 yard shot back at this spot. Naturally he was gone by then, but it was our best option just then.[ATTACH=full]86477[/ATTACH]This was a track we found in the same general area as the last picture. The 280 cartridge is there for a size comparison, but this picture just doesn't do it any justice. My best guess is that this was a 6-foot bear in the 250lb zone. I think I've seen it before when I was scouting the area in May and early June.[ATTACH=full]86478[/ATTACH]I think this picture shows how thick and steep the area is pretty well. The trail is going up right there, and the brush you see on both sides of the trail is thinner than that just off camera.[ATTACH=full]86479[/ATTACH]This picture is as we were coming into the edge of a wildfire area from the summer. If you're curious, just google "Helena Fire California 2017."[ATTACH=full]86480[/ATTACH]Another of a handline a helicopter crew put in. The fire jumped it up higher, but stopped at a secondary line.[ATTACH=full]86481[/ATTACH]This is a tree that before the fire was perfectly round, and 5 feet in diameter. [ATTACH=full]86482[/ATTACH] Apparently you can only upload 10 pictures at a time, so on to part 2 of day 1. [/QUOTE]
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