Today we picked another area to explore and first visited the sawmill ruins that we found on 12/31/2005 on the PBX hike "Hiking The Featherbed." The fire cleared the area around it making it easier to see things.
And while exploring around it I noticed old shells and metal where they may have cooked their food.
And semi nearby is a Commissioner stone I have visited multiple times. This winter I will look for the next stone in the Atsion tract line that is located 45,200 feet away (8.56 miles). I will have to dig every inch of Sandy Causeway up in a short distance since it is underground. I have found that the surveyors distances are not perfectly exact so I have a beginning and an end to search along Sandy Causeway. The surveyors were good, but Google Earth measuring is better than the equipment they used back then.
The state monument and the stone.
Later we crossed this nice wetland area.
Then we hit the tracks and started back to the car. Along the way we again encountered the fire that has been burning out there for a month. It has now reached the JCRR. It is burning the pine needles from the earlier fire as well as roots.
The FFS came in recently and plowed a line to stop it. And someone from the FFS hand scraped a cleared line trying to force it towards the tracks. And unbelievably it appears to be working. The fire is not crossing it and is heading towards the tracks.
We passed a man and young boy along the tracks on our way back to the car. Later, on Carranza at the Skit Branch the B52 FFS truck passed us heading towards the fire. Not sure if the man called it in or they were just checking on the fire.