I'm my daughter, Steve, and we're out here at the hot well. Do you see the koi fish? Come over here. Look at the koi fish. Look here. Oh yeah. See that? That's 105 degrees. Isn't that pretty? Dakota would swim out here when she was a baby and they would be all around her. She would be grabbing for them. There's where we're going up there. See all the mud hens and stuff out there? Sometimes the geese come in here. The geese used to come in here before Boyce destroyed that lake as part of the Pacific Flyway. You can see more fish out there. Some pretty big ones. That's Icehouse Canyon over there. That's where they say the Bigfoot live. I was baptized there in January with ice all around. See that steam coming off that water? Right there's where Dakota learned how to swim. We'd spend all day long out here at Dakota with our little water wings. We came out here in the motor home. there's a lot of those fish in there they used to just be thousands but I think somebody caught a bunch of them or something don't molest the wildlife well let's go up the mountain do you remember at this time Dakota huh That's Icehouse Canyon up that way. Huh? I used to come out here and take a bath every night when I got through working. But the well was just, that was the well over there. That was just the well only. Gary and I were sitting out there in that thing, right over there there was a long ditch. And that 65 gallon barrel went up in the air and flew all the way over to that end of it. I know some person didn't do that. Icehouse Canyon, that big bowl. In the ancient days, they used to have lakes in there and they'd go cut ice out of there and take it and sell it to the miners. That's why they called it Icehouse Canyon. All right. This thing washes out a lot here as you can see with flash floods. It's all kinds of those expiration lines in here. That's jumping cactus. That's terrible stuff. I hate it. I had it all over my place and I removed it. He's asking if that's snow. Huh? That's snow. The white stuff. What? The white stuff. The white stuff, that's snow. What? The white stuff. Oh, that's snow. That's snow. It had all the snow on it. We have here, for instance, there's no clouds here today, but the sunshine will build soon. See that? We'll be going snow on the road pretty soon. They did some drilling up in that creek. Did you bring any gloves, Dakota? No, I didn't. You forgot your gloves? Yeah. I thought you'd bring everything. Well, I brought my hat and my scarf. Because it's going to be cold in there. My pockets are warm. I brought my good pants. We could start seeing big horned sheep anytime. And Phil, I don't know if any of you remember Christine and Phil, that's Annabelle's father. They came up here. Just right up here, the sheep run across the road. Back up here in the area where there's caves, this is what the Indian Jews used to call a telegraph cave. They left stuff in there from season to season. carry their themselves and whatever they needed and they just carried them lining up some stuff on them. Right around up here pretty soon is where those caves start. You can see the sheep stand up on those hills like on a picture card, you know. We're standing right up on the hills. I hope we see something today. Right up here is where they ran across the road from us. Christina was with us. What? I thought it was the back of a sheep, but it's a rock. They climb that mountain right there. I've had some others climb up on that hill. They love those sheep that crawl up the side of that mountain vertically. You wouldn't believe they defy gravity. They do that in my game too. Say what? They do that in my game too. There's another quail, see? up here walking around. Usually there's snow on the road here. You take that? There's been sheep. What's that? You don't see the little hoof prints in the snow? You what? There's been sheep here. You don't see the hoof prints? Oh yeah, you can see their tracks. Actually, those are bigger. Those are elk. Well, they could be cattle. There are some animals, but mostly sheep. They're too nice. This is where I usually go shooting. There's a white rock over there I shoot at. their stuff. The sun will shine up here later than any place else in the valley because this is pretty high. And so the sun will be higher up here and it'll be light longer than it will be in Fish Lake Valley. And then some of those big rocks have fallen out in the valleys of the road. There's something going on up here. They're working it looks like. Must be with the mine. A Sionero, I think. They had talcum powder. They used to have talc lines up here in all kinds of places. This goes all the way over the mountain and it goes down this over to Silver Peak, Nevada. And I've taken you all the way over this road. You can come up here and walk over and you can hear explosions all over these mountains. It sounds like gunfire or something. The bighorn sheep are butting their heads together. Boom! 6,000 years of activity up here. Cows. Cows. Cows. Cows. Yeah, cows. Cows. We used to call them cowsy-wowsies. Remember that? Cowsy-wowsies. Horse. Horse. Cow. Cow. Horses have long necks. Cows have short necks. Oh. Hi, cows. Hello, cows. How's it going? That one down there is praying. See, he was praying. Help! I almost broke my nail off. Hey cows. Bye cows. Hey girls. They got waddles. Guess where you are? You should have left that down. There's Cave Springs. That's one of the most ancient archaeological sites here. There's a fence around it. Look at that. When I was young, all of this out here... All of this out here was nothing but ashes. That's a bat cave there. It was. All these caves up here where you see the black. I was a piece out of that cave one time. They shot at all the pieces. People come up here and used to shoot into those caves with high-powered rifles and stuff. And there's pector grifts in there. See all that black guano in there? Yeah. Now if you want to walk up there in that cave there's steps. Do you see the steps? Those steps were made thousands of years ago. Yeah. Kathy Culp run up there and got all the way up to the top of that thing. Jimmy went up there. Jimmy and I went up there. But it's real hard to get down. It's real steep. Not steeper than what you think it is. Okay. But see the smoke from the fires from thousands of years. When I was young the smoke was that thick on those walls. There hadn't been any smoke in there for years now. See the smoke went all the way up. And there's pieces of of the wall shot out of it. There's pictures in there on the wall made with red clay or something. Some type of red dye. See the cattle's got waddles. Right up there is where you saw the pictures of the big horned sheep. See that now? This was the place. There's a rolling cow. And there's the old lion shack. When I was young there was a great big cactus coming out of the top of that roof. There's a rock about to fall down. See that one up there? Those sheep will jump on top of that thing and they'll just walk right up that place. That's unbelievable. There's a spring back in there. A little trail that goes back up in there and there's a box spring back in there. I'm driving right into that sun. Back up in here, you'll see the bighorn sheep sometime. I've seen rams up there, like 30 and 40 in a herd. You gotta stay away from that jumping cactus that'll knock a hole in your tires. I hate that stuff. When you drive up there, it's like going through the Grand Canyon. And it's as deep as the Grand Canyon, nearly. Let's go turn around up here. I just thought we might see some sheep up here someplace. This is a little range. See any sheep up there anywhere? No. That's low rate, low gear isn't it? I'm gonna turn around right up here. We're going about one mile an hour and we're doing 3,000 RPMs almost. It goes all the way up there and turns around. Now look how far we came up. We came straight up almost all the way here. This is what you call the crawl mode, Steven. That's how you crawl over the rocks and stuff. You know, you've seen videos of that. Have you seen videos of that? Yeah. This is the real Rubicon. I don't know everything about it. Down there is where your lockers come in. This is pretty steep right here. I was coming up that hill on time to pick up and I thought I was in 4WD because I pushed the button for 4WD but it didn't go in 4WD and the tires were spinning and Sharon was in the back seat and Marilyn was all, don't go, don't go any further, there's smoke, the tires are smoking. It was the back tires and I said, I don't know what's wrong with this thing, I've gone up this hill a dozen times. Anyway, I backed off and ran that again and still got stuck and I hit that 4WD again and then it went. It was right up there, it wasn't in 4WD. This one you put it in four-wheel drive manually. This may be part of old Jim Daniel's cattle from a long time ago, I don't know. Hey, do you want to get out and take a picture and look at the thing over here in the cave? I don't know if we can get up. I'm pretty sure we can't get to the cave. You can. There's a barbed wire fence around it. Oh, you can get in there. There's the gates. There's gates there. I wouldn't mind checking it out. See the table? Yeah. See the lunch table there? It's rock. Yeah. You can check it out. I wouldn't mind. Let's go. I wouldn't go in there because of the Hantavirus up here. Even though you can, they don't lock it because people will break into it. See the cross in front of it? What'd you do now? I went to open the door and it slammed back on my shin. We can get something red and have us a bull fight here. Or a cow fight. Stop it. Can I get out? I'm fighting with the door, Stephen. I see. I'll turn this thing around here. Take it off. I know it's going around in circles. It's probably getting dizzy. There's a blue-wrong cow there. Bull, that is. There's Dakota. Look at that piece of turquoise in the wall. You see the turquoise? There was a shower out here where people could take a shower. Someone's been up here recently. Huh? Yeah, somebody's been here. A person. Yeah, okay. Okay, let's see if you see any bighorn sheep tracks. Ooh, very soft. Catch. This was a... You know, they didn't have ice boxes back then. Let me show you what a spring box was. You put your, in there, there was a way to put it in, but water used to come down through this thing right here, and it would flow down in here from that spring up there before they blocked it all. And you put your food in there, and it'd keep it cold. What is that up there? That's a spring box, and then the spring is up there. And you can see all kinds of bighorn sheep tracks up there. And that's where you saw them. Isn't this a neat place? Yeah, it is pretty neat. You can walk all the way up to that. I've been up there many times. I'm not walking all the way up there. Huh? I'm not going to walk all the way up there. Well, this is an ancient place. I'm telling you, it's ancient. Did you look at the door, look inside? Should we? Yeah. I guess we could. You can look in there. I wouldn't go in there. See the inside? I wouldn't go in there because of the hantavirus. Because of what? Hantavirus. A man went in there one time. And he went to Silver Peak which is just over the hill. He went over there and went to the hospital. The ambulance took him to Tonopah. And between here and the air ambulance. They got new lanterns in here. They got new lamps and stuff in here. There was food in here and stuff all the time. There used to be before for people to come in here. The cowboys used to camp here. Well anyway, this is the ancient cave. You've been here before, Dakota, when you were little. I haven't taken you up here because when we came up here in the motorhome, we couldn't go off the road and go up here like this. See, right up there is the spring. Right up there. That's a hunting line back there. The Indians used to get in these hunting lines and would shoot these big horn sheep when they come in. But they would be all over these mountains. I've seen them on every ridge here at certain times of the year. See the table? Yeah, you gotta watch out for the cow patties. Or you got a couple of rocks. I make terraniums and these are perfect. Yeah. There's all different kinds of rocks. There used to be two things here. This is where their cattle or where their horses were at one time. Oh, there's the old jumping cactus up there still in the... It's still up there but it's dead. I didn't realize that. There it is. That was the old jumping cactus. That was in the roof. Anyway, you walk on that road up there, it's kind of steep. Are they trying to preserve the roof by having a tarp over it? Yeah, probably. And the rocks, yeah. That probably was a long time ago. It looked like they took the cactus out of there and then put it back. Maybe. Yeah, because that was all like a soft roof. Well, I can see there's a corrugated steel underneath it. Yeah, that's what was there before. Yeah. But then there was a lot of rocks. I've seen sheep all over that. They just climb up that. It's almost vertical and they climb there and just act like their own flat ground. We'll go up a little further if you want to and turn around and go back. Because that's before it turns into the Grand Canyon right here. It's fantastic. This country looks like Wyoming, the Grand Canyon, Montana, Alaska and everything all rolled up in one place. Hello there bull. Let's see if I can get this thing back here. Stephen's back there. Somehow I'm back here. Somehow you get back there. Somehow, I don't know how. Maybe that's more comfortable than the seat. Actually it's pretty comfortable. I don't know. It's quite comfortable. I'll put a cow with him. How much do you want to pay me? I'm not going to pay you. I'd like for you to just do it. I know you won't. Alright, we're ready to go now. I'm going to pet a cow. She wants to go pet the cow. That's a bull over there, Dakota. That's not a cow. That's a cow. Yeah, but they're not going to let you pet them. I wouldn't do that. That's a little dangerous. That's why I ran back here. They look real peaceful until you get them riled up. Alright, there we go. Still recording. Battery dead or what? Yeah. Is it? I'm trying to start it. I know, I see. Okay. I don't use the starter unless I have to. Use gravity, use gravity I guess. Let's go. I want to pet that one, it has a poofy head. Well, if one of them comes up here and talks to you and says, pet me, that would be a good idea to do that, but I wouldn't do it otherwise. I want to pet their fluffy ears. Thank you. Did you get enough pictures of this? Yeah, I took several. Did you get pictures of this? Yeah. Okay. Okay, now we're going to go through the Grand Canyon for a little bit. How much farther is that from here? Right up here. It goes about another four miles to the top of the mountain, and then you can look down and see all the way to Tonopah up here, up on top of the Coyote Pass. But we don't need to go all the way there, we'll just go up here to the plateau. Pretty soon we're going to see, looking up there, it's going to be a mile high pretty soon, these mountains are. We might even see deer or sheep up here or something, I'm telling. Now look how tall the mountains are. Have you ridden in a car with a standard transmission very much, Steven, at all? Not very often. Do you know anybody that's got one? My dad has a Volkswagen, but he doesn't drive one. Oh, look at that. Look at how pretty that is. He's got a Volkswagen? Yeah, it's a Volkswagen. Oh, a dune buggy or something? Huh? A dune buggy? Yeah, it's a dune buggy. So you've driven that some? Yeah, I've driven it. Look back up there in that pretty country. We're geriatric old people, we travel around up here and enjoy ourselves. She never got to do this when she was young anyway. And you can look in here and you can see where places where the Indians, where there's smoke is where they used to stay. And you can see quite a few caves back in here. Back in there, there's smoke. See the smoke? Yeah. They've been building fire since they sheltered back in there. See back in that one? That cave back there, a lot of smoke in it. Look how tall those ridges are up there. That's a mile high. You could come up here and spend days and days and days just traveling around and looking at stuff and never see the same thing twice. Lyman Canyon up there where I took Gary, I mean that is beautiful back in there. Real wooded. And the oldest trees in the world are up there. And every canyon you go out of up here in Fish Lake Valley is like that. Just sprains all over and creaks. You can get wood permits up here and go cut wood up on top from the other direction. The last few years they haven't had much pine nuts. Up here you get big rolling plateaus. So crispy up on top of that mountain up there. There's roads going all back in here, different places. There's a lot of bighorn sheep back up in those hills because there's springs back in there. And that gold mine is back up there. Cord was invested in this silver, in Silver Peak. They had a gold mine and silver mine up there. And that's where they'd lithium. They mined lithium up there for years. And it's volcanoes there, and steam's coming out of the volcanoes and mudpots. And then the road goes all the way down and goes over towards Baindy, Nevada. All out through the Silver Peak Flats and sand dunes and stuff out there. Alkaline flats and stuff. Bluebird. Yeah, there's your bluebird. He's following us. Seeing what we're doing up here in this country. There's a red one. Huh? There's a red one. A red bird? Yeah. Is that a cardinal or something? I don't know. It's got red wings but a brown body. There's just stuff to explore all over up through here. They've done a lot of mining up here over the years. Cardinals don't come this far out. Huh? Cardinals don't come this far out. I don't know. I couldn't understand. Cardinals don't come this far out. Cardinals? Cardinals, yes. There's cardinals up here. Did you see one down there this year? Down the ranch? There was one. We get them up here all the time. Rusty down at her place, she's got cardinals there. We got cardinals. We had yellowbirds, we had redbirds, cardinals, we had all kinds of birds. They go out there and I feed them. Did you see the bird feeder? No. Coyote Pass is just up here just a little bit. I went up here one time with my mother and Margaret. And I was going to go down that pass. I was in my pickup I guess. Anyway, Margaret got out. She wasn't going to walk. She walked down there about 200-300 yards before she'd get back in the truck. Because it's really steep. But UPS comes up here. They keep this road open because UPS comes here. Because that mine is up there, Menlo Ridge. And there's a lake up there, where the big, long chiefs of the ponds go to drink all the time. See the different type of trees up here, the pinyon pine? trees. Right up here is where that old couple got killed. They got up here. The UPS led them astray and they ended up out here on one of these roads in a motor home. And they hadn't done anything else but the sergeant up here wouldn't let them go look for them. He wouldn't go rescue them. He said if anybody came in here it was their own fault. dirt job to watch after it, but it was. Anyway, the other county and I and Mineral County came up there and they found him in one day. Once they could, they couldn't come in here until he said do it, you know. And they found him, but he had died the day before. We've been 69 miles today. Mine is about 50, 50, 50 miles. Like, no. We've been 50, 58 miles. The tires are starting to slip it out. Can you push it back in? Yeah. Tighten it up for a bit. I look like I'm going to fall over my head. I know, it just slipped out right now. This up here is going to be breathtaking. The other way would have been breathtaking, too. But right up here is really something. But it's prettier the other way, I think. The cave is on this direction. Well, he wanted to see if he hadn't seen something before. Huh? I said, I wanted to show him that because he hadn't seen that before. Seen what? The cave and that little house. Yeah, back there. That was pretty neat, wasn't it? Yeah, that was pretty neat. You go up in that cave and look at those ancient, 6,000 years ago, some of those paintings were in there. 6,000 years. When we go back down, I'd like to go in there and take a picture. You want to go in there? It might be too late then. It'll be dark by then, Barb. I don't know, maybe you can get it daylight enough. Oh, we're going to go back that way, right? Yeah, well, sure. We'll go that way. If we don't turn around, we'll go over the mountain. That's the Menil Ridge Mine there. It's a gold mine up there. I used to go over this. I took you over here one time when you were a baby. We went right down that road. Caution, attention. Now, look at that. What's the matter? This is the past. You can get up here and take a picture of the marker. I'm trying to hear. I'm trying to get this brake on. If I can get out. If I can get out. Can you? I need help. Oh God! I see. We're going to turn this around again. It'll spin you around a little bit. Get it off this camera stand. We'll have our little field trip today. If you come up here, I should have driven further where you could see down in here. See that road goes all the way back to Silver Peak, Nevada. And the town, you can see the town over here. And out there is the volcanic mud spots, steam coming out of them. Some of them are thousands of feet deep. If you get to them, you'll go away and never see you again. They mined lithium down there for 40 or 50 years. That was one of my customers. There's plenty of rocks up here, Dakota. There's some real good healthy Indian tea. You want Indian tea, Dakota? Come over here. You can see where they're mining lithium down there and everything. Tonopah is way over there. Oh, she went and got a snowball. That's a juniper. The juniper berry. See the juniper trees? Dakota's playing snowball. there's a tiny tree right there just now growing there might be a rock in there anyway that town of server peaks right down there that road goes back down there to it. nice. went down my shirt. sorry I did not mean to do that. See the road going down there? This first part of it is really spooky. Yeah. Because it's steep. Then it goes on down. I used to go down there all the time when I was working up here for the mines and stuff. Yeah. Delivering stuff. There's a road that goes all the way across there, all the way. It comes out by, down there by... Please don't fall. The Goldfield Road. Those juniper berries? Those juniper berries, yeah. They put them in roasts and stuff. Are they safe to eat? Yes, you don't eat them like that. You put them in roasts and stuff. We could have gone up Rose Canyon. We would have gone up Rose Canyon today. Rose Canyon has rose hips by the millions. Millions, the whole canyon. Now there's some Indian tea if you want it. You can make tea out of it. What is our elevation here, 7,000 feet? Did you look? I have an altimeter app. You do? I do. Do you want a paint gun from here with your collection? Name it, Bob. Altimeter. It says 2,400 feet. That's not right. Tell me what it says. That's not right. That's what it says. That's not right. You won't get 2,400 feet till you get to Mojave. Mojave. If you come up at Christmas time, there will probably be snow on our place. Maybe. The last Christmas we lived here when Dakota was a baby, It snowed on Christmas Eve. And we went down there to California. And the next day we had Christmas at my mother's house. But up here we had a white Christmas, the last day we lived here. That was December the 25th. Did you eat it? Your fingers get cold? That there ought to be good snow there. You could eat that. I made, in the wintertime up here, I make Maryland snow ice cream. It's pretty hard, isn't it? It's frozen. It's probably, I don't know, you know when the sun shines, the sun is really bright, but you know what the temperature here probably is? Right now, probably 38 or 40 degrees. It sure does not feel like it. No. What do you think about the little Jeep? You didn't see the engine in it, did you? It runs good. Yeah. It runs really good. That one to build that I tried to show you, for you, the engine had a new engine in it. My friend It was his Jeep and Bill bought it. I used to teach down there at the Silver Peak School during November for the Indian Days, you know, for the Thanksgiving Pilgrims stuff. The snow was too cold to make snowballs almost. I've got two more big candles, packages of Roman candles. Of course, those mortars too. Tonopah is over that way, Goldfield is that way, and Silver Peak is just down there. When the gold mines were going real strong, this was a real populated area. Somebody lived there. Can you see where the light is shining off of that? That's off of the car. There's a Pontiac and an Oldsmobile there. I can't remember what it is. There's cars all over this country up here. That road goes back in there, back in the mountains on Mineral Ridge, and there's bighorn sheep habitat back in there too. You could get in and out of the back of the car now, but it's just as easy to get into the door, isn't it? I'll show you the engine. I put those steps on it. I also have a rack in the back, you know, where you can put stuff on the back. I got that. You saw it in the garage. Can you lift that up? You know how to do that? See? That's basically a 235 Chevy engine re-engineered with a cold air intake and everything on it. Pretty neat little vehicle. He said that green stuff right there is the Indian tooth? Did you hook that up? Yeah, I got a latch. All right, anyway, there you go. You said that green stuff is Indian tea? What? That stuff? That's Indian tea, yes. Get you some of that. You got your pocket knife with you? Purse. Purse. Do you have one? You know I've got a pocket knife, don't you? Never mind. Here, it's sharp. Don't cut yourself. Razor sharp. Did you look at the elevation here, what it said? Well, just so I show you, there shouldn't be that much. No, it's right there. Oh, is it on there? Yeah, it's the marker, see? You didn't see the marker? I didn't know it was on it. Yeah, it's on there. Seventy, what? Seventy-three, fifty-three? Seventy-three hundred and fifty-three feet. That's not twenty-five hundred or whatever it said. That's what it said. It may be twenty-five hundred feet above five thousand or something. Yeah, maybe. Okay, there you go. We got that on our place, too. But this looks real healthy here. Did you get some of the rocks, Dakota? I want one. Okay. I mainly wanted the volcanic rock because a small bag of that cost 20 bucks, and I need it for the terranium I'm making. Volcanic rocks. Oh, we got that. I know. That's why I'm grabbing a bunch of them because otherwise I've got to pay 20 bucks for it. Okay. Well, let us go. These license plates, the disabled plates up here, I got them one year apart. One of them was 5406 and the other one was 5408. Only one in between. Oh, OK. See, really. Coincidence. In a year. Yeah. All right. They say this was the best year that they ever made. Oh, that's a baby cow. Hello little baby cow. What are you doing out here? That's a baby. What are you doing out here? Mama's gotta be someplace. I hope. Sweetheart, where's your mama? Where's his mama? I don't see her. I don't see her. That's pretty nice. Thank you. He's about a few days old. Yeah. Look for his mama. I don't see her. It's following us. Oh, it is following us. That's a baby. I don't know. Hopefully not far. Trotting back up the trail. Huh? Trotting back up the trail. Yeah. I don't see no cows. tie over to your line could take that thing real easy they got a few wolves Steven do you like cashews? I do I wish I could get power windows for this Jeep. I'm sure they make them. I've got two soft tops for it, two convertible tops. But I don't like them. There's no cows anywhere. I'm going to heat her in the air conditioner. The ice melting on that one. This will be the last area dark in the evening. It's right up here. Because it's so high. There's a lot of altitude. I saw you brought it too, I saw you grab it. I think those are goat prints because they're small. What is it? These. Goat heads? Prints. There's cows over there but I think these are goats. The cutter wants something right there. Colax. Colax fall off of that? I guess so. Wouldn't work very well without a Colax. that's something now we're going back in the canyon look how pretty the canyon is now way up there That's over a mile high. Now you want to stop here. I've got to get my windshield replaced. I can't see where I'm going. I can't see anything. The cattle follow the trail pretty much. The cattle will go down the road most of the time. They run them down through here all the time. Look at the rocks, how they stand out up there. There's caves, go back in there and see the caves. That's where people got in there for shelter 2,000 years ago, 3,000. See that rock up there? That's the place where they got in there for shelter. If the sun shines bright, we'll see what I call the post office, the telegraph hill. This is ancient occupation in here. Dakota, you remember seeing the St. Petroglyphs at the north end of the valley? Huh? You don't? That's where you caught a horned dog. Remember catching the horned dog? Remember, Jimmy said he'd never been up here until he took a year. And he said, well, if you don't want that, I do remember. Now that I've been here again. You can see it in different places where they got down there for shelter and had fires for hundreds of years. See the caves back up in there where they used to leave their stuff? If you look you can see where the foot tracks where they had little trails up there. See that one where the trails are? Yeah. See that stone? Almost there. I was hoping we'd see some Big Horn King. Blue Rome Bull. See those old things up there? See they've got some of them have smoke in them. It's not as much of a incline, so it's not as bad. I'll see if I can get that besides something besides the... Okay. Okay. All right, they're going to go look at the cave. You see the pictograph up there? That goes back to the Stone Age. See how thick the smoke is? See how thick the smoke is on the cave? Right where you're standing up there just above that is where the ashes used to go. ashes they had ashes where they built fire from the smoke from the wood and in that wood was there and that in those ashes was a bones and arrow points and everything else. I got a picture of Margaret digging down through that. And my mother. It's easy to get up there, but it's not easy to get down. There's another pictograph up there to your right. And people have chiseled them off and shot them off. See where the bullets hit them and knocked the wall out of the cave? Say something. See if it echoes. Dakota hasn't been here in 28 years. You haven't been up there in that petrified forest in 28 years either. The snow is on the ground. We've had some pretty heavy snows and some pretty heavy rains up here also. It's steeper than it looks, isn't it? Steep. Do you see how they cut the steps in that? See those steps are in there thousands of years old. The other cave over here is a bat cave. The bats took habitation in that since the Indians don't come up here anymore. That bat fertilizer in there is real good. Did you look at the back cave? That was a cave also. See the back guano? They covered this all up, it had all those ashes and stuff in there and it went all the way up much further. And they dug it all out so people wouldn't come in here and dig into the ashes. What? What is the green rocks? What? Green rocks! Green rocks? Well, copper. Copper is usually green. There's turquoise mines up here also. Copper and arsenic. That ground is frozen hard. Yeah. Well, he didn't trip on the snow. He tripped on a rock. I'm not wearing shoes for this. I wasn't planning this. Be careful. Be careful. That might be the lowest place right there. Yeah. Please don't let me die. Please don't die. That fence wasn't there when we were young. When you were a little kid it wasn't there either. All right. Very late. Huh? Late. Yeah it is. Alright. Going back on our spinning around. I gotta put my rocks away. That's something. That's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You gotta know people that know where it is. I can show you a lot of stuff up here like that. That was very cool. Thank you for showing that to us. Well, there's a thousand more times. There's a pentacle lift up here. It's so extensive, it's unbelievable. And then I got one up there that nobody knew where it was but me. I mean nobody. They swear it wasn't even in this valley. Or in this area. But I got a picture of me standing by it about 1980 something. When I was a kid up there we, you know, we rode all over that country and I thought you could see it if you rode back then. There wasn't any trees in the way but trees grew up in the meanwhile. Eddie doesn't even know where that thing is. And he grieved all the others. It's cold at night. It's cold in the daytime. But the sunshine warms everything up. That's plus the thing, you should have two foot of snow here. Is that trying to get around him or something? Get fed between. Watch out, watch out. He's going to move. He's going to pull away. He took a U-turn. Yeah, but Alphavirn's really, well, yeah, they're uh, they've been exploring. I don't know. You got a horned toad right over there where you caught that horned toad Dakota. Isn't that something? That whole face of it's gone. I got pictures of it when it was all there. And see the hunting blinds over there? There's all kinds of obsidian over there. This is thousands of years old. See, they've taken a lot of it. Boy, they've taken a lot of it in the last year. I'm glad I got you here before it's all gone. Huh? What? There's one there they busted off. They've been up here working on this. Trying to steal this stuff. Here's the hunting blinds and the teepees. Circles. If you come over here, you can see obsidian. Boy, somebody's been in here. They've sifted through all of this. See the teepee circles, Dakota? And honey blinds? Hello? We're up here at the petroglyph down just north of us. Are you okay? I'm okay, yeah. Okay. Yeah, we went all the way up the Coyote Pass. I walked up in the Cave Springs and all that stuff. And I'm videotaping. Oh, that's nice. Uh-huh. I'll be home in probably 30 minutes or less. Okay. Okay. Bye-bye. I thought I'd check on you. Okay. Did he finish the floor? to the stove. Okay, is he coming back tomorrow, I guess, isn't he? He left at 3.30. Oh, okay. Is he coming, did he say he's coming back tomorrow? He didn't say anything. Oh, he didn't, okay. I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Did you find some, Dakota? Yeah. All right. A long time ago, when I was young, on top of there, there were mannequins, dummies, with Indian clothes on them and stuff, and they'd drive the antelope down through here, and they'd see them up there, so they'd come this way, and they'd shoot them as they come by, in these hunting blinds. Did you find any yet, Steven? I haven't looked enough yet. Huh? Not yet. Look. See that? Did you see it on the ground? No. I just tossed it. The yellow one. See the yellow one? I just almost buried it. Didn't even see it. Look. After it rains, see there's another one. See that? See that right there? Right there? They're all different colors. There's red and See all the circles? All the way down. And they were mannequins standing up there. They had rocks around them with just wood with arms sticking out with clothes on them. But that was 70 years ago, 60 something. Do you remember now Dakota? No. You don't remember being here? You were out here like just going all over the place. That was 20 years ago. Watch out, that's thorns. Yeah, I know, I'm walking away from it. You can see real good arrow points in here sometimes. Where it washes like this, it'll wash them out. It goes all the way down. Anyway, there's not much left of those petroglyphs. I mean, that was one of the largest petroglyph sites there was. So you can see our house from here just about. Half of the guys in the valley didn't know where this was. Charlie had been here for 10 years and I brought him up here and showed him where it was. Then they brought some of the neighbors up here and he couldn't find it. I told him not to get here. This is pretty neat. This is ancient, ancient stuff. How old do you think? 6,000 years, 5,000. as long as mankind's been here. They did not, the Smithsonian did not admit the Indians had been in this country that long, but they'd been here as long as mankind's been on the earth. You went out there and got some charcoal out here one time out of one of those old ancient fire pits and you drew pictures with it. You don't remember that either. See that boundary Montgomery Peak? That stands out. Well, it wasn't worth it, Dakota. There's just gobs of it. The big petroglyph site up there is something else. Up in the mountains. That's up above the pond a little bit. Alright. You have fun? Have fun, Steven. Yeah. Isn't this exciting? Very cool. All right.