A place to explore the natural setting (geology, flora & fauna), people, constructed infrastructure and historical events that play and have played a part in shaping the Sierra Nevada as we know it today.
I would like to see what you have run across in the backcountry that may have historical/pre historical significance; rock art, points, shelters, rock alignments, cans etc. All of these items are of course protected under the antiquities act and must stay where you find them. Please don't include images of artifacts removed from the backcountry.
Also, please don't include specific locations to sensitive sites.
post european contact point, northern Yosemite
Native American bedrock mortars, Ansel Adams Wilderness
still wondering what this is, any ideas? ~20" long. Very remote location, northern Yosemite
Native American pictographs
Late 19th century hand soldered "pinhole" can, Sierra crest
High elevation Hunting blind. Southern Yosemite
Attachments
Banded obsidian point, central Yosemite
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I don't have a picture, but I found an old circa 1800's Winchester rifle in Tehipite Valley. The stock is gone and the steel is severely rusted, but it lay where I found it. There is also an old stone stove held together with mortar and some old steel pipes as well. Has to be a turn of the century hardened campsite. Perhaps sheep herders or gold prospectors.
If you don't know where you're going, then any path will get you there.
that sounds pretty cool for certain. I know of a flintlock in SEKI as well. I have to wonder what happened to the guys that left those guns, it's not something you would leave behind back then?
Hard to say. Maybe it was easier, cheaper, or more expedient to just buy another if the stock broke. I imagine it would be one of those things you couldn't do without for longer than needed.
If you don't know where you're going, then any path will get you there.
The third pic down is a "hickey bar" used to bend steel rebar, or pipe that one of course looks very old, but the design is virtually unchanged in modern hickeys today
Thanks for that Sparky, but here are a couple of closer pics. The flat end looked to have been riveted to something, and the looped end isn't forged closed very tightly. It was also of rather 'delicate" forgery.
