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   Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:51 JST Emily Velasco

   Nevada roadsights I

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:43 JST botvolution

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     Great great .. so, 1850s -ish?

     Hard to imagine how brutally tough making a life in that space and time might have been.

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:44 JST Emily Velasco

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     There was more water in the valley back then, according to his telling of it, but it was still dry, so he dug this canal himself, with help from our great grandma, who was just a girl at the time.

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:45 JST Emily Velasco

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     Great great grandpa homesteaded out here in Il Zane, Utah, from the 1910s to the 1940s. We found the ruins of the place and explored a bit

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:46 JST Emily Velasco

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     Beaver, Utah, what a place

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:47 JST Emily Velasco

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     First day in Utah and we went looking for topaz at Topaz Mountain. The mountain is all chopped up from people looking for gems. It was lots of hammering and chiseling with nothing to show for it.

     I had better luck finding topaz in the washes, but they were small.

     Lots of open country out here.

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:48 JST Emily Velasco

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     We stayed at Baker Creek in Great Basin National Park last night. It's very pretty, but very cold. Neither of us was able to keep warm through the night, even with cold-rated sleeping bags and extra blankets

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:49 JST Emily Velasco

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     Prospectin' for garnets on Garnet Hill

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:50 JST Emily Velasco

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     Alien creature sighting

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:52:51 JST Emily Velasco

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     Nevada roadsights II

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:57:50 JST botvolution

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     Deserts seem to make people Do Things .

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:57:51 JST Emily Velasco

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     Someone who lives nearby has a thing for frogs. I saw the giant frog on satellite view before getting here. It was cool to see the same figure on their gate

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:57:51 JST Emily Velasco

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     Things we saw in Zane and Beryl

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:57:52 JST Emily Velasco

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     Old human artifacts

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 07:02:06 JST botvolution

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     @MLE_online
     Ah, ok, yes ww1, flu pandemic, the great depression and ww2 shortened a lot of 20c generations. Still, tough af.

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 07:02:07 JST Emily Velasco

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     @botvolution no, about sixty years after that. He arrived around 1912ish when the railroad was giving away free land to homesteaders.

     I actually met him. He lived to be almost 100. I guess there must have been a few short generations in there