Paul Bunyan's Woodpile to Ghost Towns

Halloween Day 10/31

Here's what our campground looked like, it's a very nice spot- wouldn't mind camping there again.
Ragnar stole that stick out of the pile Derek collected for the fire.

Ragnar on sentry duty...

And it turns out we were just at the bottom of the "parking lot" for the woodpile!

BLM isn't giving this area any love...

Good luck trying to find the trail that leads to the top.. we followed a truck road and headed towards the pile.  You can see it from the trail head. 

Ragnar vs. the salt lick...

Next stop, Tintic Peak..

Which was basically hiking straight uphill on an atv trail, then you had to leave the trail & bushwhack it up to the peak to where the benchmark is.  The mileage all depends on where you want to leave your car, technically we could've driven all the way to the top... Derek still has to edit the video.

Elevation: 8,214

Elevation Gain over 1.5 miles (one way): 1,276

That's Mt. Nebo just to the right of the cross

Derek found a coyote skull and took it home to show the nephews. 

Ghost Town Hunting on Halloween! 

Silver City.. the mine has become active again and from the looks of it, pushed their land ownership up more.  There were big "No Trespassing" signs so we didn't get too far.

This area however, was right off of HWY 6 & super fun to explore.

Just had to be careful of mine shafts...

Ragnar was the only one brave enough to explore this tunnel.

The Tintic Standard Reduction Mill...

Off HWY 6 around Goshen Valley, down a road we didn't see a sign for but it leads right towards the mountains (you can see the mill from the road).  Park and then roughly a half mile walk/hike.

Look at this dog.. such a happy doggie...

There were lots of really cool tags, but then some less fortunate person tagged a super inappropriate thing over it so I couldn't take a photo of it.  Also SUPER sorry if there is something inappropriate in any of the photos that I didn't catch.

Our original plans were to camp for both nights, but instead decided to settle on just the one night & then spend the rest of the night watching movies & being non-stinky. That and we wanted ice cream :)