Blacks Fork, north slope Uintahs.
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Blacks Fork, north slope Uintahs.
Today we drove up to Blacks Fork, an abandoned lumber camp on the north slope. I was hoping for a stress free drive into a nice remote area, but no such luck. The area was packed with UTVs and ATVs and jerks towing camp trailers at 5 mph. The road is great, a graded county road that might scare a 2wd if it's really wet. Here's some pics.
Duplex cabins
The two big single room buildings in the center are probably a mess hall and a company office and/or store? I dunno which is which. Big buildings in the foreground, number one on the left.
Big building number one.
Big building number two.
Two buildings downslope are a stable and (probably) a tool shed.
Stable.
Tool shed?
The logs on this door jam were numbered (with tar?) from the top down - a 1, a roman numeral 2, then arabic 3 4 5 6. I have no idea why.
Eight years of post-occupation visitors have walked off with the archeology of the original occupants and left their own detritus that'll be archeology soon enough. Lots of beer cans, broken glass, and bits of rusty metal - I only found this bit laying around that was identifiable as "original" trash. The edge is rough, indicating it was hand-crimped and soldered instead of assembled by a machine. The openings are ragged, not clean, meaning it was probably opened with a knife as opposed to a can opener. It was something liquid, not a solid like canned fruit or vegetables - my money is on condensed milk.
At the top of the lower meadow is a small footpath deliberately lined with stones that heads uphill past a small copse of trees. It's overgrown, with trees and shrubs of considerable size growing in it. At the crest of the small hill, it splits right and straight - both branches peter out almost immediately. I couldn't find anything up there to indicate why - no grave markers, no sign of an old cabin, nothing. Very mysterious, I love it.
Duplex cabins
The two big single room buildings in the center are probably a mess hall and a company office and/or store? I dunno which is which. Big buildings in the foreground, number one on the left.
Big building number one.
Big building number two.
Two buildings downslope are a stable and (probably) a tool shed.
Stable.
Tool shed?
The logs on this door jam were numbered (with tar?) from the top down - a 1, a roman numeral 2, then arabic 3 4 5 6. I have no idea why.
Eight years of post-occupation visitors have walked off with the archeology of the original occupants and left their own detritus that'll be archeology soon enough. Lots of beer cans, broken glass, and bits of rusty metal - I only found this bit laying around that was identifiable as "original" trash. The edge is rough, indicating it was hand-crimped and soldered instead of assembled by a machine. The openings are ragged, not clean, meaning it was probably opened with a knife as opposed to a can opener. It was something liquid, not a solid like canned fruit or vegetables - my money is on condensed milk.
At the top of the lower meadow is a small footpath deliberately lined with stones that heads uphill past a small copse of trees. It's overgrown, with trees and shrubs of considerable size growing in it. At the crest of the small hill, it splits right and straight - both branches peter out almost immediately. I couldn't find anything up there to indicate why - no grave markers, no sign of an old cabin, nothing. Very mysterious, I love it.
Re: Blacks Fork, north slope Uintahs.
Pretty spot. Where is this at exactly?
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Re: Blacks Fork, north slope Uintahs.
On the north slope of the Uintahs, just south of Meeks Reservoir and the Wyoming border.
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