Sutter gold mine
a bird
This is a vein of quartz which usually contains gold
One of the early drills called the widow maker because it caused white lung which was due to silicate dust. It's also where the term gold digger came from as women would marry the guy who operated the drill knowing he'd be dead in a few years.
Some more quartz veins
This is an innovation on the previous drill made after they figured out what was killing the people on the previous drill. It was still pretty dangerous though.
This is a modern drill powered by a hydralic ram and often weighed enough that it took two men to carry it. The rock in the top of the picture is called black slate basically compressed sediment from the base of the ocean. There is aparantly only a few places in the world where you can see this.
A recreation of the old mine shafts supported by wood that would rot after a short while small narrow dark and dangerous.
You can see a dot of gold in this vein just where the flash light is
The most recent area of excavation in the mine
on the way back out
the car we rode into the mine in.
Little water thing that they do panning in.
Lake tahoe
the sun set on the mountains
Riding the gondella up to heavenly
view down the gondella towards lake tahoe
Can't quite fit the whole lake in wide angle
On our way up to the top
View from the top
this is the heavenly flyer a huge zip line from the summit down to Heavenly. It was fully booked that day unfortunately
On our way back down
Out hotel ... not sure why it's logo is like that with the hawaiin shorts and the st bernards
Lake Tahoe Panorama
