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This wouldn’t be the first time a climber was injured up there, here’s an interesting bit of history about Mount Williamson: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-05/skeletal-remains-of-japanese-american-incarcerated-at-manzanar-found-in-mountains

“ woman claims bankruptcy and ignorance when told she would be responsible for all SAR and agency expenses incurred for rescuing her”.

A buddy of mine found this one in Arizona, you can see the old fusion crust weathering away on it. He filed a ‘window’ on one side to verify it, and you can see the nickel/iron specks inside. Have you tried this with your specimen?

@phrunt “Outstanding, hopefully one day I find one.”

Hi Jim, I know it's probably been too hot lately to work your site, just curious if you went back earlier and found good results with your sampling? Also sent a PM - curious about your astronomy hobby. -Anthony

Look at the map - there’s a more recent open pit mine in the area, and probably more old abandoned underground ones as well. Sounds like he may have been standing next to the collar (edge) of an old crumbling shaft, and fell in. A common and fatal mistake. How sad for the family.

Auto accidents are probably #1. Then I’d think either heat or bad people are in #2, but both of these can be mitigated for. #1 depends on other drivers though.

Joe - if you were in brackish water in Northern Australia and saw something like that, I would’ve ran like hell out of there- looked like a saltwater croc was death rolling a victim right in front of you! On the US east coast, could that have been a sturgeon mating or some large fish like that? I love our deserts out here, but wow, it would be great to be on the water somewhere like that.

I’m not an expert about this, but it looks like some independent studies concluded that magnetic shark repellents have no effect on sharks, particularly great whites: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6120439/ But they did find positive results with electronic-based repellents, however those are in active mode to work and will probably also repel your detector!

True to form- the model number seems to always match the $AU price! 😉

I read this as a comparison, not implying that it has PI- With “Pulse Induction ground-handling performance”. If so, what PI detector might they be comparing it with, as several still fire off on hot rocks also.

Mitchel, there were also redwoods surrounding the Bay Area and coastal areas as far south as Monterey. Besides the gum trees from Australia, the European settlers also brought groundwater sucking Tamarisk from the Middle East, and gave everyone across the world the annual ripgut and foxtail grasses - that changed the landscape everywhere very fast- carpets of dead brown grass that burned every summer instead of the perennial green bunch grasses that could resist fire, and all these darn foxtails in my boots and socks!

Sounds like a great place to rake and detect the outside dump piles with a VLF for specimens from that vein. You sound experienced with it Bill, but for others like me, even with just a bit of underground MSHA training without any hardrock mining experience, I know to not consider entering an abandoned stope. Death Valley (appropriately named) has many old ones, several with a shallow enough dip that people are enticed to explore them. But even though they are held up by a forest of pinion and other pine supports, a lot of them are bent over and failing due to time and weight. Those things are ugly, and are a firmament of the hard work of miners. But today, inexperienced people have been slabbed inside them. This is one of those where a guy didn’t come out the same way he went in… Bill and GC, -It’s great seeing photos of the mountain areas and stuff you guys are detecting, the mountains are one of my favorite places I’d go but we live too far away, and there’s still gold in our local deserts!

Well spoken Jim, sounds like with experience - the best type of advice! I almost didn’t think of that when buying our standard travel trailer. The ones my wife liked had wide axles that made the wheels stick out beyond the sides with an extended fender on them. I could see those fenders getting bent from catching on everything so I nixed that idea and went with a standard one that had shorter axles (and an internal wheel well). But for a popup trailer to be used offroad, you are right, lots of damage potential if it is too wide for the two-track.