The Narrows. Heartrock, and 2 mines

April 28, 2013 - Another beautiful day and the gang from work decide they are going to join Dave and me for our Whichita Mountains Virtual Geocache hunt. Today we do Boulder Mountain (which is really Eagle Mountain)(which we gave up on a few weeks ago but found a path up the north side using maps), then go see Heartrock (which is an Earthcache) and then a mine (cache called Mine games) on the south face of Lincoln Mountain, then over the pass between Lincoln and Elk and finally to Bonanza Mine on the south side of Elk Mt. We then would take the Treasure Lake trail to the Treasure lake parking lot and hitch a ride back to our cars parked at Dog Run Hallow parking lot. Started at 8 a.m. and ended exhausted at 5 p.m. Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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Whoa... if this is just getting to the way up... we're in trouble!	A.J., Dave, Joe, Jason, Sean and I take off up a trail that supposely goes up to the top?	L to R: A.J. - Joe - Sean
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Lots of rest breaks!	Gulp... this looks a bit difficult!	All his way for a removed Disk... but here is where it was!
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nice view	Jason on his way up
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	The intials in the cement... that counted as found it too	Dave got his 50th cache with this one!
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Jason, Sean, Joe, and Dave with Me sitting... A.J. taking the picture.	No duhh!!	We did it!
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The road out... wow...did we really do that?	Jason at Heartrock	Joe at Heartrock
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Sean at Heartrock	ddvdude (me) at Heartrock	Dave at Heartrock
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going up the bubble to the top	You can see the cars real close... Heartrock is just off the side of the road.
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On our way to the side of Lincoln Mt.	The abandoned mine... decades ago I came by here and there were railroad tracks going into the water and an abandoned mine car here.
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You can see all of the pilings (rock debris) from a good distance before getting here... and they are slippery to walk on!		There was some kind of big machine here to pull out the ore... just the steel in the rocks is all that remains.
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		Wondered what that smell was!! Thought it was one of the guys!
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The Lincoln Mt. / Elk Mt. pass... easiest way (you sure?)	The south face of Elk Mt.	A.J. at Bonanza Mine
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Bonanza Mine	That's all it is...	The famous waterfall near Treasure Lake... doesn't always have water in it!
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But two weeks ago it rained just over 6 inches here so there is water and then some!	Usually a green brackish pool... now clear and clean	A.J. cooling down
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ddvdude trying not to become a blob of jelly on the pool floor as he comes down	Treasure Lake... the parking lot is just to the west! We made it!	A collered lizard....
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	Or what we call a Mountain Boomer!
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