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Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:37:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		We had to get out and do a bit of exploring yesterday before the snow arrived. We discovered some old timers have done a bit of carving in the rocks.




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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:39:43 PM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:42:57 PM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:48:50 PM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:51:14 PM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:53:56 PM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/1/2011 10:57:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		No they are not bullet holes. It is just sandstone and you can also find round rocks of it too.

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 12:26:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Dugout

This was different. Possibly cattle brands.





Hey Renee,

Very cool spot. This looks almost like Kanji.

All that carving musta been some sweaty work. I feel certain that there were sodas, and possibly other tasty beverages consumed in the making. What'd they do with the empties?


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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 8:41:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great post! Love finding unexpected stuff like that.

My grandfather's house (he owns 3/4 of the road it's on) leads to a huge downward slope to lake superior. There are a bunch of caves there..heck one of the houses he sold land to has one of the rockwall as the entire back wall of their house!! When we were younger and we'd drive up to Munising to visit, my cousin and I would snowshoe back to those caves to camp and hunt rabbits....tons of old tin plates/dishes etc ... and a bunch of carving on the walls....

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 8:53:23 AM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 9:39:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Alright Surf... please enlighten me on Kanji. I know that the KKK were active here. And the homesteaders set up claims in 1906 or 1907. They had to "prove up" their land for 2 years before they could own it.

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 9:44:00 AM   
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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 4:19:33 PM   
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Alright Surf... please enlighten me on Kanji.


Hey Renee,

Whazzamatteryou, ain't there no Japanese cowpunchers up your way? Kanji is the Japanese system of writing, based on the Han Chinese. The origins are kinda lost in the mysts of time...


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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 6:14:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Dugout

Here is another one.





I thought it was the symbol for Animal House Togaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!


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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 6:47:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ok Joe if you look in the first picture on the right side towards the bottom you can see the round rock ball that will someday fall out of the big rock. It is  a different color. It will leave a hole in the big rock like the other holes.

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 6:53:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		There was a rock from a stone path behind the 1865 house I dug, and it had "1883" carved on it. Cool stuff!

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 6:59:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Surf, We only found one piece of glass. This rock formation is high up on a windy butte. So they most likely camped down by the creek. And I don't know of any Japanese around here. But the Chinese lived in tunnels under Deadwood. Oh, we also found an arrowhead with one side white with petina. And I think a real rusty tip of a knife about 3 inches long. They may have used it to do some of the carving. There were also 2 survey markers drilled into the rock with a date of 1962 on them.

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 7:03:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		And Rick sometimes my house is an animal house, when we are lambing & calving during cold wet storms. I have those new babies all over the entry way. I love linolium and clorox!

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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 7:15:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Dugout

Ok Joe if you look in the first picture on the right side towards the bottom you can see the round rock ball that will someday fall out of the big rock. It is  a different color. It will leave a hole in the big rock like the other holes.


Thank's Renee` I noticed that when I was first studying those pics,...That's interesting, as we don't have stone quite like that here. This is what we see fairly often here....about every major valley has at least one of these glacial rock areas in it somewhere...The one near to our house is referred to as "Thunder Rocks", then there's Zelluff's Rocks, Jake's Rock's,...Big Rock's (complete with a spot called Devil's Kitchen") Panther Rock's...etc, etc... Only one of them is a pay for entry type park...The rest are just there....Bears seem to like them.




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RE: Dated Rocks - 12/2/2011 7:21:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		The pay park is callled "Rock City" (originally enough) park...Laur and I went there for a rock and fossil show. It's been a rock park since victorian times. Here's a post card from 1912...




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