lil moab and forest lake 8-27-05

[chadschoon]

There are still several that are open in the canyon... but most were shut in ~95' after the FS completed their heritage study and mine closure recommendations. Many of the larger ones were rebarred to allow bat populations and future study (possibly mining). Others that had not naturally caved were filled with mine tailings (at the opening) such as the Live Yankee (now reopened to the cave-in) or blocked with cinderblock (such as the Bog Mine). All said there were at least 100 mines in the canyon area... many of which were small and never yeilded much... The canyon is still full of cool things, old cabins, old mine, tram towers, ore buckets.. etc

i would love to see some of these things. any maps or such to find were these are located???

 

[cruiseroutfit]

i would love to see some of these things. any maps or such to find were these are located???

Maps: alot of the older (and some current) USGS maps show the mines, some even call out the names, etc. You can get travel maps from the Forest Service (at the pay booth) that has all the trail names and numbers (and also describes which trails are legally open)

As far as some of the "off the map" mines and such... you really just have to start reading up on the canyon, I have hundreds of pages of misc history on the canyon, some I havn't even had the chance to read quite fully... Come up to the U4WDA summer convention and I will be more than happy to bring alot of the info I have and can point you out to some cool places to visit...

 

[chadschoon]

do we need to be a member? I would like to be one anyways, but what if we are not at that time?

 

[EZRhino]

First: No you don't need to be a member to come to the Summer Convention. Second: We want you there!! Read up on our event on our web site www.u4wda.org Third: You'd be a fool not to join, particularly since we just lowered the dues to $15/year.

EZ

 

[chadschoon]

So how do we pay the 15$ due??? the web site still says 25$

 

[cruiseroutfit]

So how do we pay the 15$ due??? the web site still says 25$

Good eye!

Look for an announcement in the U4WDA Corner soon... and I will get the web nerds to change the site ASAP. Thanks!

 

[Meat_]

No, it wasn't every passable to ATV's, I guess my wording was a bit vague... I meant that is is passable to ATV's currently (suggesting no change)



Yup & yup... I have been up there a couple times this year... and the Forest Service went along with some of the other U4 board members to check it out firsthand. They were actually trying to get an Eagle Scout project to fix it last weekend, but the kid satisfied his hours during our car removal last Tuesday (the car at the Pacific mine and the car off of Lower Major Evans Gulch road are gone )... It is alot of work, but with 30 people (like we had at the last project, we could make alot of progress in a couple hours, and machines are not out of the question...

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