A Halloween Adventure

On Saturday afternoon Brian, the dog, and I went on an adventure. It didn't start out as an adventure, but sort of turned into one. The original goal was to take Bella to Enterprise reservoir so she could run around and play. We got to the reservoir and discovered it has been drained. We climbed around on the dam and around the reservoir for awhile. This is a picture from the bottom of the dam. All of the pictures are really small because I had to take them on my phone. This is t

On the way back from Enterprise, Brian wanted to see how close you can get to the mine dump hills. Well about a mile down the side dirt road, the road ends and there is this big "Iron Bull Mining Company-NO TRESPASSING" sign. This did not stop us. We just got out and walked. Along the way we found: An old outhouse

We also saw old telegraph poles

This is what we decided was the old dump shoots, the iron got dumped into little carts, and then got put onto trains. Its hard to tell from the pictures but we're pretty sure that is what it is. Tragically my phone died before I got to take all the pictures I wanted, but we are going back and going to get more pictures. We think we found a backway in to get us closer to the actual mine. There are tons of old half structures, huge 5 inch around metal cables, lunch pails, the list goes on and on. As long as you ignore the no trespassing signs and can jump the fence. It is awesome! It was also a little eerie, standing at the bottom of a lake bed, walking across the top of a dam, and wondering around an old mining site. But over all a great day!