Back into the wilderness today to find
Indian site number two that was missing. After a little confusion on
what road went where the Kadizzilites got within three tenths of a
mile of the site by motorcycle. The Commander and Kadizzle drove the
truck to the nearest coral and unloaded the cycle.
Len drove his cycle from the pavement.
Kadizzle was surprised the site was much more spectacular than he
suspected it would be. The site was relatively well preserved
considering it's proximity to civilization. If people can get close
to a site with jeeps, four wheelers, or whatever, the site will be
picked clean. With effort we could find pottery shards, but nothing
spectacular. Why people have to push over walls and destroy these
sites is a mystery. This site probably had at least twenty rooms and
was a surface site. The day was not clear enough to determine if the
site had a line of sight to the major ruins in caves across the lake.
More than likely they did have line of sight. No doubt these people
communicated by fire signals great distances.
When we returned to the truck to reload
the motorcycle we explored a mine shaft on an adjacent hill. Hard to
figure what they were mining. The shaft was actually an excavated
crevice that went down for perhaps 150 feet or more. The bottom of
the shaft could not be seen.
Tomorrow is the fire tower hike and the
next day will be the mother of all motorcycle trips. Stay tuned.
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