2023-01-31, 08:21 PM
Well as long as we're playing Where's Waldo? 
I think Beardilocks pix are on the east side of Salt Creek, going along the top of the bluffs, and that is old tourist tire tracks - damn they last forever - associated with the old road. As near as I can tell that old road ends up (south end) relatively near the current gate to the Salt Creek road. I've never been up on top of those bluffs though I've walked beneath them, between the Salt Creek boardwalk and 190 up in the Cornfield, more than once.
Now DVD.. I think in your video the first shot of a drawn path can't be complete, because you showed stuff that was nearer the boardwalk, and also views from on top of the bluffs. There's no bluff like that which I can recall on the west side of the creek.
Finally, the pile of wood that you refer to as a bridge is NOT the bridge I saw - the one I saw we actually walked over, it was still pretty solid. That bridge was where the road that you tracked for a bit on the west side ends up going. I read (Gephardt) that there was some sort of "trading post" out there in Salt Creek but that seems strange. If there was, then that would suggest the Beardilocks Indian trail may well have been used in more recent times by White settlers. Could be animals too - everyone would share a known path.
MacClean spring is not drinkable now, but it used to be, right? So that would have been a major draw for anyone in the area.
There used to be a sign nearby for the "Burned Wagons Point" but last time I was there, a few years ago, it was gone - IIRC the post was still there. Perhaps it was not historically accurate and the NPS took it down, or perhaps some vandal wanted to take it home (though it was hardly as old as, e.g., those old directional signs we discussed recently).
I did not know there were supposed to be any artifacts out there. I've not found any, either side of the creek, though there are plenty of small fossils.
I think Beardilocks pix are on the east side of Salt Creek, going along the top of the bluffs, and that is old tourist tire tracks - damn they last forever - associated with the old road. As near as I can tell that old road ends up (south end) relatively near the current gate to the Salt Creek road. I've never been up on top of those bluffs though I've walked beneath them, between the Salt Creek boardwalk and 190 up in the Cornfield, more than once.
Now DVD.. I think in your video the first shot of a drawn path can't be complete, because you showed stuff that was nearer the boardwalk, and also views from on top of the bluffs. There's no bluff like that which I can recall on the west side of the creek.
Finally, the pile of wood that you refer to as a bridge is NOT the bridge I saw - the one I saw we actually walked over, it was still pretty solid. That bridge was where the road that you tracked for a bit on the west side ends up going. I read (Gephardt) that there was some sort of "trading post" out there in Salt Creek but that seems strange. If there was, then that would suggest the Beardilocks Indian trail may well have been used in more recent times by White settlers. Could be animals too - everyone would share a known path.
MacClean spring is not drinkable now, but it used to be, right? So that would have been a major draw for anyone in the area.
There used to be a sign nearby for the "Burned Wagons Point" but last time I was there, a few years ago, it was gone - IIRC the post was still there. Perhaps it was not historically accurate and the NPS took it down, or perhaps some vandal wanted to take it home (though it was hardly as old as, e.g., those old directional signs we discussed recently).
I did not know there were supposed to be any artifacts out there. I've not found any, either side of the creek, though there are plenty of small fossils.