Rock Houns

Everything was pretty much as usual except for a phone call from Robert.  He was going to go to the hills west and north of Milford, Utah.  He was leaving Orem in a few minutes. He invited me to go with him.  We drove to Beaver and then west to Milford.

The price for regular gas was $3.889 per gallon.

He filled up his tank.  I didn't notice the total amount.  We then drove to Milford.  The rest of the pictures illustrate our trip.

This is one of the shafts.  I dropped a small rock into the shaft.  I heard it land.  Robert came over and dropped a larger rock.  We heard it hit and then we could hear it rolling.  I am sure that the hole is at least one hundred feet deep.  A criminal could drop a body into the hole and nobody would ever find it.

Robert walking safely around another shaft.

Robert is standing on top of pile of rock tailings.  We were looking for a small mining town.  Robert found it and all that was left was the garbage dump.  He found a few pieces of glass.  

I wanted to take this piece of dead weathered juniper.  It was too big to fit in Robert's.  Car. We would have to come back with a chain saw to cut it loose. 

A huge Claret Cactus.  Next spring it would be a solid cluster of red flowers.

A lot of rusty cans.  This one looks like a bread pan.

This one is a number ten can.

This looks like a part of a cow bone.  Most has been eaten or rotted away.

I can tell about this one.  I may be an ant hill.

Another rusty tin can.

A photo looking to the top of the hill.  Clear blue sky.  

Looking at the skyline in the other direction.  Robert's car is at the bottom.

Robert's car near the main road.  Main road is probably inaccurate.  A more traveled road would make more since.  

We stopped near this old abandoned mill.  Off to the right there were lots of rock that contained copper.  We spent a lot of time there.  Robert wants to come back with a sledge hammer.

Looking down in the valley there is a road.  It's a vertical line near the center of the photo.

There is a lot of dead junipers.  The drought has been hard on them.  We then looked for obsidian.  We found quite a bit of larger pieces.  We then headed home.  We drove on Pass road going east until we got to Beaver.  We stopped a a gas station to go to the bathroom.  Robert bought cheese balls to eat on the way home.

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