Are some places just not worth it?

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RCO

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I've come to some possible conclusions about this site:
1- It has already been heavily and thoroughly picked through.
2- The people dumping stuff BROKE EVERYTHING!
3- There was some unknown, nearby factory/facility that dealt exclusively in broken shards of cool bottles, beer bottles and ketchup bottles.

Ughhhh

i guess some places just aren't worth it , i've found a few spots like this . but still manage to enjoy the outdoors and perhaps find something else not bottle related

i'd continue to check the nearby area incase there was anywhere else nearby that they also dumped things on
 

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A bunch of plain Jane bottles and food jars..
And merely added to huge amounts of broken glass in the heavily wooded area.

Ukraine...

Russia maybe
Ever wonder why your whole country is populated with gun-crazy buffoons blasting away and disrespecting someone else's property?
No gun problem?
 

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I don't need thumbs up! I need advice lol
There is only one way to tell for sure dig .we all waste time an energy digging spots that don't produce much.but as bottle diggers we dig.lolgood luck
 
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This one isn't a "dump" dump, but according to maps and old aerials, a roadside "dump"...

Therefore, GENERATIONS before me have probably been picking through it .


Back to the drawing board..


I got other stuff to do and plan though..
 

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Okay, I probably could have elaborated on a first post a little more:

Yes, some places can be "just not worth it". My problem personally is, sometimes a decent spot can get picked clean of decent bottles and start to fall into the "not worth it" section. I have a nice spot not too far from where I live that I fear I may have gotten all the really good stuff out of. Hiking there is a pain too, so it's not really worth it anymore.

I remember also finding a bottle dump near some abandoned tracks, but upon further inspection not only were 99% of the bottles broken, the oldest stuff there was only from the 50's or so. There could have been an older layer of glass beneath it all, but based upon my observations on the surface, Not worth it.

I've also had experiences where I make out what could be bottle dumps outside in the woods, but the terrain is just too impassable to reach them. As in, at the bottom of a ravine etc. Not worth it.

As for your specific example with the pictures,
I myself would probably look around that spot myself....but I rarely have luck in rocky soil like that, mostly finding fragments like you.
 
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Yeah.. it's barely on the back burner.
I don't have nearly enough hours for the sites I'm seriously interested in...


Life.....
 

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I don't need thumbs up! I need advice lol
Good Gawd!
That's the way it is. Sometimes you have to expend effort and receive nothing more than increased strength and health.
That's the way this pastime is.
Enjoy it and stop worrying about having dug a hole for "nothing".
 

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Good Gawd!
That's the way it is. Sometimes you have to expend effort and receive nothing more than increased strength and health.
That's the way this pastime is.
Enjoy it and stop worrying about having dug a hole for "nothing".
You freedom hating types might not like it, but I'll feel any way I'd like to regarding the holes I dig..

Some days, the hike alone is draining...
 

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