On 13 Nov 2005 18:01:32 -0800, miso@sushi.com wrote:

The drive is fine. I don't recall the road names anymore, but you can
see the "monument" from a distance, so use it for navigation.
http://www.lazygranch.com/projfault.htm

thanks guy , I kinda knew you'd probably been there a few times
already and had the scoop. ha hah  aha ha a   I love your 
pictures and info on your site , great stuff. 

The radioactivity level there seems to be just background, at least at
ground zero. I never tried to find where they did the drillback. Often
radioactivity escapes from hot gases. It may be that the area was so
unstable they didn't bother to evaluate the test. I'll make it a point
some time to visit the DOE reading room and see what details they have
released on the blast.

figures they'd come and scrape up the " goodies " and take them 
away.  I'd love to get a few bushels of trininite type material to
sell on ebay !!!

While you are out there, check out the "meteor crater"
http://www.lazygranch.com/meteorhw6.htm

looks like people have really tried to find one there with the pit and
all. probably more effort than I'd ever be able to exert ! hah aha ha 
I use my metal detector on the highway down towards  bishop in that
huge wash of stones on that runoff area right before you get into the
white mountains pass ( east highway into bishop, the one that goes by
the bristle conepark entrance . )  way  more fun than finding change
on the  beach  !!!! ha 

Also, you might want to do the drive over Quinn Mountain. The forrest
service road dumps you out in Garden Valley. I ran into some real
assholes in Garden Valley, sort of challenging me as to what I'm doing
there. Garden Valley is where the people in Alamo have vacation homes
to get away from it all. They don't like visitors. There is deeded land
out there, but it is posted.

sounds interesting , and I can manage to use transportation that when
they see it , they won't question it's being there.   

Most communications lasers are IR, so spotting them would require a B&W
CCD or nightvision. At best, you would have line of sight to Bald
Mountain, but Halligan Mesa isn't all that high.

we checked it out both from the north side and south side towards the
base.  we first used a 2nd gen night scope with a huge 6" diameter
cassegrain  laser receiver lens on the front. then we used a broadband
photo detector with instrument and audio outputs.   couldn't find
anything at all but some light points that had 60 hz buzz and 400 hz
buzzes  on them.  
those were probably instrument lighting or panel lights of some kind. 
it's not unusual to find 400 hz lights , base camp has several  of
them ( for example ) .  might be the control panel of a military
generator set or similar.  most  aircraft  used to  have 400 hz
emissions from their lighting too, tho it's been a while since I've
looked at any of them.


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