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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2017, 07:28:00 AM »
Wow, that was nice of Robert to open up the hoist building for you guys, he rarely ever does that.  I have spent a lot of hours in that building.  Last thing we did there was move the big black tanks inside after a bit of cleanup.  You should have seen it before the  rehab, it was falling down.
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2017, 08:19:24 AM »
Absolutely incredible...As always, your photos are amazing.  Glad I got to experience the trip first hand!
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #17 on: June 01, 2017, 07:41:33 PM »
That looks like a fantastic trip! Jealous now....
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2017, 03:01:37 AM »
Amazing pictures and trip!!!   
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #19 on: June 02, 2017, 08:41:39 AM »
Thanks for all the photos guys.  I know that it's nothing like being there, but it helps ;)
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #20 on: June 02, 2017, 09:41:23 PM »
Woo!  Photos from this trip, finally.
I had some dust on my sensor.  I tried to clean them up in post best I could.

Camp day 1 at Lone Pine Campground.  Lovely place for a "assigned campsite" type of place

RTT kind of works in these campsites
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RTT small electronics project completed with the help of knightrider.  I like boots'n'pants mode.
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I think Jayrat posted a very similar picture.  In fact, he may have been standing right next to me when I took it. 
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Anyways, after breakfast, we met up with the group.  I was thrilled Jordan and Jill made it up!  It was a little dicey there for a minute. 

Some of the rigs
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"planning"
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Pic I sent my sister when she texted me and asked me what I was doing this weekend
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Hennie and Jayrat caught me trying to take candids... I like the pic anyways!
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The "obstacle"  I had more trouble later as you will soon see!
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #21 on: June 02, 2017, 09:56:07 PM »
What we see here is Steve trying to remain as calm as possible.
What happened was I was bumping along and all the sudden I feel the truck do some three wheel motion.
Being on a shelfish type road, I stopped the truck and politely asked Mr. Jordan for some assistance.
When he (and Tony) arrived, they told me I had something leaking... oh sh!t, that's coolant... TURN THE TRUCK OFF!
After being assured that it "looked much worse than it felt" I cranked the heat and with Jordan and Tony's direction, made my ways up the hill.
It doesn't look scary, of course, but boy, did it sure feel scary!  Hennie's lovely wife reminded me a couple of times later tha she was glad it was me and not her! 

Thank you Hennie for grabbing my camera and snapping some pics. 
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Open diffs and 3.13s sucks! 
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Joe and Jessica just enjoying the sights!
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Pinion pine wanted to come with, I said NO!
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Arriving at what later became the most EPIC campsite of my camping career!

MY MAN!
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Snow fun. 
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I asked him to pose this way.  Looks like an explorer or something!
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Why we do what we do.  (and Joe doing what he does... I'm not sure why :) )
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CVT Mt. Shasta posing in the dying light.  I do love that thing!
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View from the tent in the morning!  http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/922/iWQdWV.jpg
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #22 on: June 02, 2017, 10:09:14 PM »
The next day, we visited the Salt Tram.  It was mind boggling in its entirety.  From the engineering to the logistics.  Crazy

No real descriptions needed.  I think everyone was blown away. 
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I call this one, "Men Gathered, Discussing a Hole"
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Super cool old tenders house.  The floor was a little "squishy" for the larger specimens among us. 
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #23 on: June 02, 2017, 10:30:11 PM »
Camp on day three was a little bit "hold my beer and watch this"
Tony, our fearless and intrepid leader, had a pretty good idea that maybe sort of there would be a great campsite for us!  We had faith and boy, did he deliver!
The rest of us sat on the road while he explored 1 (one) side road. He came over the radio and said this is it!
We all pile in to discover an old mining base camp!  Perfect for our 10+ rigs! 
Dog sniffing and doing circles commenced and we all got settled. 

Flippin' perfect! 
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Mining stuff... I said, "let's go explore the terraces."
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We went for a walk.
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Campsite stuff happened. 
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Conveniently, someone chopped some MASSIVE logs for us.  We had a GREAT fire.  I mean, look at that fire, isn't it a great fire?  You'll love this fire.  [/Trump]
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2017, 10:40:23 PM »
Next day, we piled into the trucks and headed to Cerro Gordo Ghost Town.  What a place! 
Robert, the caretaker for the area, was amazing.  He seemed to be really into what we were doing and rolled out the red carpet for us.
Lot's of stories and great historical insight.  I especially like the "personal" history.  The stuff you would never hear in a high school American history class.  Murder, whores, brothels, backstabbing, skullduggery etc.  The man was a walking wikipedia!


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Entry 1/2 of my "Steve tries artsy photos"  "Bottles in Stain Glass Light"  LOL
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Entry 2/2 - "Drunk Potential"
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Great camp trip with awesome people.  I hope I can go back one day.  I'm a little scared that the repeat trip won't hold a candle to the first one, but I'll give it a try! 
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #25 on: June 02, 2017, 11:30:36 PM »
Awesome Pics Steve, that was one EPIC trip >:D
Great group life memories  8)
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« Reply #26 on: June 03, 2017, 06:55:13 AM »
Wow...great pics Steve.  I especially like Jill`s handful of Jordan shot.   ;) :D ;) :D
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« Reply #27 on: June 03, 2017, 09:45:18 AM »
One of these days I'm going to have to give up my tried and true Polaroid camera and get one of these new fangled 35mm ones. Then I can get some training on how to take some of these fantastic pics like the ones that have been posted in here. I really appreciate all the work you guys did to document this fantastic trip!
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« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2017, 11:44:50 AM »
Great pic Steve.

Whatever happened to the link for he file sharing?  I would love to get copies of some of those pictures.
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Re: Cerro Gordo And Salt Trams Trip 2017: PHOTOS!
« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2017, 11:48:30 AM »
Quote from: CAWoody on June 04, 2017, 11:44:50 AM
Great pic Steve.

Whatever happened to the link for he file sharing?  I would love to get copies of some of those pictures.
I sent a link in a private message to everyone on the trip.

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