good afternoon youtube so yeah i thought i'd take another look here the old pond is up this way and
this is down the creek this is where i came down in october and i was looking on the usgs national
map with the hill shade and here's the modern road here but right off of here there's a place where
it looks like there might have been a turnout and right down here along the base of the bank
is what looks like an old road cut and then i'm guessing if this indeed is a road
this might have been like the summer and fall entrance to these structures that were up
here on this bench here once the creek level drops down you could forward the creek here
and let's go around the corner and take a look over there and so here's the bend in the creek
and you can see there's a lot of concrete debris down here big slabs there's a piece of curbing
big slab there so yeah i think they used to use those slabs like you can see right here
for rip wrap along the road here to keep it from eroding
yeah so here's the inside bend and i think the road must have gone around here and then there's
a road cut up the bank okay i think this might be the bench that i can see on the uh hillshade view
it goes up this way i figured i'd take a peek up here and see if if this is a possible way to get
up there i don't know how much brush is up there i figured this would either be a really quick trip
or it might be worthwhile yeah this may have been something here's an old piece of galvanized pipe
and there it looks like uh maybe a redwood 4x4 6x6 maybe a fence post or something here
yeah i just got to see if i can find a way through this brush up here it is really thick
okay i came up this way there's a bank up here i've been staying on the bank the
bench is a little bit farther down but it's a lot brushier but anyway i think
we're on to something here this is probably the water pipe that fed those uh structures
i think they're down below me and if you go up here there's a creek coming down this this is like
the the side of the canyon and then the creek is just up there you can probably see the sky
through there so actually probably pretty close to the top of that i bet they had you know some sort
of a little structure in the creek and or maybe there's a spring up there but yeah there was a
water pipe and that runs down that way i'm going to see if i can kind of stay on the side hill
and get up there a ways you can see right out here it's flat but it's really brushy
okay a little past the water pipe which was right up there and i think this might be part of the
old road or whatever i saw on the uh hillshade map they showed a kind of a linear feature running
along this bank up to the pond dam in fact the the road coming down from the pond that the outflow
channel is on lines right up with this so that looks like it's definitely been excavated there
and there's kind of a flat area you've got some smaller trees growing up here but again it's been
over 75 years since this has probably been used but yeah according to the map i'm fairly close to
where these structures were if the map is accurate okay so yeah here's the 1948
topo map yeah i'm just i'm not sure how accurate it is the blue dot is where it thinks i am
and it's showing the structures behind me but it's showing that i'm in the creek
and i'm quite a ways up from the creek but anyway that's that's what i'm looking at for a map
okay so yeah we just took a look at the topo map and i came down from the side up there
the side hill down onto the flat it kind of ran out on me and now i'm just in a complete
circle of brush yes that's the problem here you can't just get around any place and i mean there
could be a foundation right over there and i wouldn't even know it was there because i can
only see maybe 10 15 feet in any direction okay yeah i came down through here right around this
big tree it's actually kind of clear under there and there was a opening and came down and here's
the creek it looks like they might have even had a a little walkway down there sort of a ramp
yeah i'll just uh have to make a mental note if i want to come up here again
this is the way to get up here yeah maybe i'll poke around a little bit more looking pretty
pretty dense going that way i'd like to get over to this big tree and see where that pipe goes
okay i did get over to this tree and the pipe comes down there goes into the ground and i hiked
down as far as i could go here gets really dense but i'm wondering if maybe they had a cistern
underground that that pipe fed into because it looks like right in here there's a lot of greenery
coming up like there's water coming down maybe through that pipe and it's filling up that cistern
but uh i don't see any sign of the pipe down here and i tried looking under the brush as
far as i could there just looking for signs of like any stone stone work or concrete or
old rusty metal and i just don't see anything in here nothing visible
and that 18 or 1948 map is doesn't seem to be terribly accurate it's pretty good but it's not
it's not good enough to say i'm standing on top of that location you know it shows the structures
are farther up this way but i i just can't get any farther so maybe i'll have to come back here
like in the fall when i can hike along the creek and then just go up the side and you see what i
can find at that time but yeah there you can see there's the top of the ridge or that canyon side
so right over there is a creek and i think this is where that old road came along here there's
sort of a cut right along there goes above that tree and then i think it runs most of the way up
to that uh pond dam and then there's even a faint trace going up the canyon farther from the pond
dam so yeah lots of stuff here i don't think i'm going to find these structures though but yeah
there was obviously something here i mean they ran a steel water pipe over here and i mean that's old
you know all the modern water pipe is that black polyethylene pipe but you know this is old
cast iron or steel pipe comes down right there so they probably have a source of water someplace up
that stream and then bring it down and then over the side of the canyon down here and probably
into a cistern of some sort a partial success found some evidence up here the old fence post
old steel or cast iron water pipe and then signs of this old road here so at least that hill shade
map is proven to be pretty handy you know you can see that there's something there and then you come
up here and look and sure enough there's something there the only problem with that now is i can't
bring that map up here and put my location on it so that's the hard thing to see so what i
what i'll have to do is i've got the gaia gps track i'll upload that and then i can view that
on the gaia map and then try to find that same location on the usgs national map viewer and
then turn on the hill shade and then see if that same location is where i thought i was
it's not easy to do that you're constantly working around all these various tools and limitations so
anyway i thought i'd show you that i guess i need to get back to the bike
bushwhack up that way and back down to the creek and then get packed up and head on home
so hopefully enjoyed that look we found a little bit didn't find any structures but at least
i know i can get up here now in case i want to come back up at some point and i did confirm
there's that uh old road along the base of this uh canyon here or the foot of the canyon wall
so anyway hope you enjoyed that and uh stay tuned we'll probably be back
up here at some point if i get a new idea to check out and as always thanks for watching