Album Rusty, Crusty, Old, and Abandoned

[Henk]

Death Valley, along the way to Striped Butte in Butte Valley

 

[Ted]

There's something melancholy or ghostly about those abandoned homesteads and such. They represented someone's hopes and dreams. There sure is a lot of abandoned industrial equipment out there too, representing a lot of capital investment, too. Getting those boilers and rock crushing machines, simply getting all that stuff transported to the remote deserts and high country was no mean feat in those days. Here in the midwest, wooden structures soon decompose, and iron and steel isn't far behind. The dry desert or mountain air keeps things in kind of a state of suspended decay or preservation.

 

[wsp_scott]

Blacksmith tools at the Hensley Settlement in Cumberland Gap

Old harvester

 

[Titans]

Super cool, Keys Ranch

Willys







Mack











used as the chicken coop, safe at night

 

[Titans]

Great old cars






Lost Horse Mine

 

[Yvonne]

I found some cool unexploded ordnance in the backcountry of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP.
During WWII, they did some bombing tests in the area, and there is still a lot of the old stuff out there.

There is also a lot of old ammunition all over the place. I basically found these cases every few hundred yards on the lava in a remote area of the park.

 

[Yvonne]

During WWII, the backcountry of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP was used as a bombing range.
Even nowadays, it is not unusual to find unexplored ordnance out there.
I explore many of the park's very remote areas, and hopefully, one day, I can say I've seen every corner of it.
It was a matter of time until I stumbled upon some unexploded ordnance.
On July 3, it finally happened, and I found an intact unexploded ordnance. But that was not all, and I had a really lucky day.
Soon after, I found another one and then a third one!!!

All of them were within a quarter of a mile of the new seismic station, and the helicopter landed just feet away from my find and dropped off the equipment for USGS.
It was pretty cool, and I want to explore the area more in the next few weeks. Maybe I will find more explosives and can map them for the park, lol.

Number one

another one

my shoe for scale

 

[Jackson]

During WWII, the backcountry of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP was used as a bombing range.
Even nowadays, it is not unusual to find unexplored ordnance out there.
I explore many of the park's very remote areas, and hopefully, one day, I can say I've seen every corner of it.
It was a matter of time until I stumbled upon some unexploded ordnance.
On July 3, it finally happened, and I found an intact unexploded ordnance. But that was not all, and I had a really lucky day.
Soon after, I found another one and then a third one!!!

All of them were within a quarter of a mile of the new seismic station, and the helicopter landed just feet away from my find and dropped off the equipment for USGS.
It was pretty cool, and I want to explore the area more in the next few weeks. Maybe I will find more explosives and can map them for the park, lol.

Number one

another one

my shoe for scale

Wow, was one of them sitting upright?

 

[Yvonne]

Wow, was one of them sitting upright?

Yeah, it was!
I'm not sure if it really landed that way, but the coloration of the stuff that was leaking out of it tells me it must have been that way for a long time.

 

[Yvonne]

I did it again!!!
I hiked the Kaʻu Desert, where I checked out a new geothermal area when I stumbled upon two unexploded ordinances.
I was in the same spot, maybe 30 feet away last week, and did not see it.
So weird!!

This is the fourth and fifth WWII explosive I have found within two months.

These things are darn heavy with iron casings

Letʻs see if I can find a few more in the next few weeks and months. Eventually, I will find them all.