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Walter Henderson's elusive rock pile
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....
A marker in the middle of somewhere
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Wonderful!!!
They don't call it Borrego Mountain for nothing!
Can't wait for the "rest of the story"!
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This firepit was far from any road or trail, miles into my hike one day.
 
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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'
 
[Edited on 4-13-2017 by Fatboy]
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Required sunset and moonrise photos....
 
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Fatboy
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This guy was snooping on me....
 
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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.
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David K
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What great photos!
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last "fire pit" is a hunting blind. Looks recent
Harald Pietschmann
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Favorite thread in a while! Pretty cool trip.
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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.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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Wonderful photos, thank you! What a gorgeous little fox.
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Fatboy
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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.
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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.
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The cool part was he sat there for at least five minutes, wish I would have had the zoom lenses with me!
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Very cool - thanks 
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Interesting pictures for sure, thanks.
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Also found some quartz/tourmaline including some that I believe are rutilated in quartz, pretty neat looking.
  
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