Day off, late start but I go for crystal mountain again. The road - it's a lot worse than I remembered - more rockfalls, trees down, and the hardscrabble portion to the top - well, I surprise myself even. But I made it, only to be besieged by mosquitos - a pitiless whine, hundreds of them, I manage a couple of hours of unfocussed digging, some new pockets, tiny crystals, there's about 15 or 20 tons of overburden to be removed before I can start finding the good stuff, and with the bugs - mosquitos, black-fly's, deerflies and midges it might just have to wait until fall. They are maddening. A weeks digging to expose where I should be digging - but it will pay off.
Anyways - completely raw, hand-held phone out the window footage of the drive down the mountain (2 videos, missing about half the drive where it got boring) - I really should be a brand-ambassador for jeep, you see all the fancy Wranglers, lifted with the big tires and paint jobs that tell you they've never left the pavement. This jeep, if it could talk, well, it's been there. This is the same road I rolled the jeep down last year with the boy when the radiator blew.
I'll need a GoPro and a gimbal stabilizer, mount it to where the CB antennae would go, and then be off. Jeep Brand Ambassador, free gas, maintenance, jeep (of course), maybe a 6 figure salary (why not?) and I could provide 12 hours footage like this a week, of all the places Google Maps can't go....
Note: Sorry for the shaky footage, rough road and if it's any consolation it faithfully reproduces the nausea that every single prospecting partner has reported.