BajaNomad - Walter Henderson's elusive rock pile

Walter Henderson's elusive rock pile

Fatboy - 4-12-2017 at 10:40 PM

Just returned today from a week of searching for the rock pile and to cut to the chase ... I did not find it.

But I did have some great, crazy, dangerous, perplexing, amazing experiences which will be posted later.

Here are some pictures....

Saw this and even saw some live ones....

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A marker in the middle of somewhere
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David K - 4-12-2017 at 10:42 PM

Wonderful!!!
They don't call it Borrego Mountain for nothing!
Can't wait for the "rest of the story"!

Fatboy - 4-12-2017 at 10:44 PM

This firepit was far from any road or trail, miles into my hike one day.

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Fatboy - 4-12-2017 at 10:46 PM

In another Arroyo not far from the Arroyo that the firepit was in and again far from any roads or trails was this rock 'wall'

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Fatboy - 4-12-2017 at 10:49 PM

Required sunset and moonrise photos....

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Fatboy - 4-12-2017 at 10:54 PM

This guy was snooping on me....

Fatboy - 4-12-2017 at 11:07 PM

With actual boots on the ground it was different thing Google earth. I pretty much eliminated my first area of search and now I believe they could have walked to Arroyo Grande under certain conditions.

I also found some area's I want to check out but on this trip I ran out of water and time before I had time. As important I crossed out large areas that do not fit in my mind.

Found a couple of spots that have no recent human activity but did have signs that it was traveled in the 1930's up until maybe the 1950's. I need to see if I can date some bottles I found in a small dump to get a better time frame.

David K - 4-13-2017 at 12:09 AM

What great photos!

4x4abc - 4-13-2017 at 07:10 AM

last "fire pit" is a hunting blind. Looks recent

BajaBlanca - 4-13-2017 at 07:47 AM

Favorite thread in a while! Pretty cool trip.

MMc - 4-13-2017 at 08:05 AM

The second fire pit also could be a wind blind. I have built many of them to sleep behind. The mountains are full of them.

toronja - 4-13-2017 at 08:22 AM

Wonderful photos, thank you! What a gorgeous little fox.

Fatboy - 4-13-2017 at 08:24 AM

Quote: Originally posted by MMc

The second fire pit also could be a wind blind. I have built many of them to sleep behind. The mountains are full of them.

What I thought, to small -short- to be much of a blind, maybe a foot tall.

It was more it's location, pretty remote, that had me wondering.

Fatboy - 4-13-2017 at 08:27 AM

Quote: Originally posted by toronja

Wonderful photos, thank you! What a gorgeous little fox.

The cool part was he sat there for at least five minutes, wish I would have had the zoom lenses with me!

stiladam - 4-13-2017 at 10:02 AM

Very cool - thanks :cool:

TMW - 4-13-2017 at 10:17 AM

Interesting pictures for sure, thanks.

Fatboy - 4-13-2017 at 10:22 AM

Also found some quartz/tourmaline including some that I believe are rutilated in quartz, pretty neat looking.