2022-04-14, 03:00 PM
(2022-04-14, 08:32 AM)DAW89446 Wrote: I have a hunch that the pipeline section fell off the flatbed trucks that were used during dismantling and the boys decided to leave it behind.
Great theory! But.... the pipe sections were up-canyon on a dozer road so not the way they would have been hauled out. There was also one section of pipe which was not the coiled and riveted construction - we'd just been discussing that, and had stopped by the piece of pipe on display on the Wildrose road, because we had been wondering what the pressure must have been as the water pooled in the pipe enough to get over the ridge. I don't know whether they might have used other pipe to fill gaps or make repairs on the Skidoo pipeline.
I thought it a cool find, as I've seen only one other pipe section in place out there, and in a rather improbable location (right next to a road which was not closed due to wilderness until the desert protection act).