Wonders of the East Fork (Add Your Photos)

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:33 am

The Bighorns ...

Black Tarantula

Southern Pacific Rattlesnake

Desert Collared Lizard

Baby Garter Snake

Baby Rattlesnake Roadkill

Jerusalum Cricket aka Potato Bug

Pale Swallowtail

Western Whiptail Lizard

Fence Lizard aka Blue Belly

Black Caterpillar

California Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Miner's Cabins ...

Mine Cart In Allison Gulch

Unnamed Waterfall in Devil's Gulch

Swan Rock

More Geology Wonders ...

The Gold Mines ...

Allison Mine

Big Horn Mine

Unidentified Mine, Possibly Buel Ford Placer Mine

Happy Day Placer Mine

Holly Mine

Heaton / Queenie Mine

Horseshoe Mine

Horseshoe Annex / Elvira Veuhoff Mine

And of course, the famous Bridge To Nowhere ....

Girl Hiker · Post by **Girl Hiker** » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:59 am

Wow! Thanks for reminding us of all the wonderful things we've seen and haven't seen. I'm interetested in exploring more mines.

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:14 am

girlhiker70 wrote: Wow! Thanks for reminding us of all the wonderful things we've seen and haven't seen. I'm interetested in exploring more mines.

Check out my website for more on the mines
Lost Mines of Los Angeles County

Post by **Sean** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 12:48 pm

Those are nice, but I believe this nail ball is the most wondrous thing in the East Fork. Kinda hard to find, too.

Elwood · Post by **Elwood** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:29 pm

Fused by dragons, no doubt... Unless Squatchy can breath fire.

Post by **Sean** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:27 pm

Elwood wrote:Fused by dragons, no doubt... Unless Squatchy can breath fire.

Yep. With dragon force it does 500 HP of damage. Or 250 if you want it to magically return to your hand after attacking the enemy.

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:32 pm

Sean wrote: Those are nice, but I believe this nail ball is the most wondrous thing in the East Fork. Kinda hard to find, too.

Nail Ball.JPG

Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.

Post by **Sean** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:39 pm

CrazyHermit wrote:Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.

It's in the cabin ruins near Stanley-Miller Mine.

Post by **Sean** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:43 pm

That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:06 pm

Sean wrote:
CrazyHermit wrote:Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.
It's in the cabin ruins near Stanley-Miller Mine.

Awesome. I'll have to look for that.

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:07 pm

Sean wrote: That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?

Those lizards are related to iguanas. They're super fast and get up to about 18 inches. Not rare though.

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:16 pm

Sean wrote: That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?

That waterfall slide on your YouTube page is awesome. You're buddy looks like Freddy Kruger.

Post by **dima** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 3:00 pm

Nice! Terminology question: I thought that "placer" mining referred to filtering river sediments and "hard-rock" mining referred to filtering rock you break off hard ground. But you have photos of several shafts labelled as "placer" mines. So what does "placer" mean then?

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 6:15 pm

dima wrote: Nice! Terminology question: I thought that "placer" mining referred to filtering river sediments and "hard-rock" mining referred to filtering rock you break off hard ground. But you have photos of several shafts labelled as "placer" mines. So what does "placer" mean then?

I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question.

Post by **dima** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 7:42 pm

CrazyHermit wrote:I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question.

OK, that makes sense. Where did you get the names of the mines? Info about these old claims is a bit sparse.

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Mon Oct 09, 2017 3:24 am

dima wrote:
CrazyHermit wrote:I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question.
OK, that makes sense. Where did you get the names of the mines? Info about these old claims is a bit sparse.

Some of the lesser known mines are listed on Western Mining History There are quite a few in the East Fork I haven't found yet.
The more well known ones can be found in John W. Robinson's books, Mines of the San Gabriels and Mines of the East Fork.
Hugh Blanchard also talked with some of the descendants of the original miners and found some information even Robinson didn't know about.
Gold Mines of Los Angeles County