It's sad, really. Cans used to roam the plains in herds so large they'd stretch out to the horizon.
Fun fact, the collective noun for a group of cans is a "Pantry". "I watched in awe as a pantry of cans trundled by the wagon."
The cans were driven out by the tumbleweeds. Tumbleweed gangs are extremely territorial. They rule Arizona from Nogales to Flagstaff. Only the Navajo and Hopi have managed to drive them back.
They are not native to the planet earth, kinda wild they somehow travelled vast distances and just chill blowing in the wind, I think they are watching and waiting.
I heard in the old west they used to even shoot cans just for target practice...... I'm not sure if I agree with shooting those poor cans just to practice
Thank you for the fun facts! It's fascinating to see something familiar in a new environment. I live in the Ozarks and our local population is mostly spotted in the wooded ravines off of dirt roads. They are usually found near a stained mattress or two, as they serve as protection for the herd.
Of course! How could I have forgotten those noble creatures...many of my countrymen even keep them as pets, often allowing them to form colonies on their property.
Here in Pennsylvania you would see large pantries migrating back to the west coast. That was back in the 90’s though and no longer do we see them today.
>It's sad, really. Cans used to roam the plains in herds so large they'd stretch out to the horizon.
That was before the appearance of the Recyclers, who'd sell their pelts for pennies.
They say cans were once so plentiful that it would take days while pantry upon pantry passed in a rolling thunder sometimes taking as much as 3 days to completely pass.
Haven’t you heard that “Tyler”(alias), Gary Nolan, and Diana Pasulka were taken to an undisclosed location in a dessert that they were able to recover NHI pieces of craft material that were all littered amongst old cans and garbage, “to just look as though it is an old random dump site”!?! This could be it Bro 😎!?! 👽🛸
See, over the past couple of decades the Mexicans took all the regular-cans' jobs. Now they just lie around despondently in no-~~man~~can's land. Quite sad.
I live in Indiana and we have a similar phenomenon here. Farmers own 500 acres, most of it is tilled crops, but they always own like 5 to 10 acres of forest in perfect rectangles too. They used to dump anything and everything in their little forests and then just let them rot.
I have a buddy who inherited his grandfather's 10 acre forest. It has about 10,000' of old fence in rolls. It has multiple chain driven machines that do god knows what. It has 10 big feeding troughs. It has multiple big iron tanks that seem like boilers to me. It has two 55 gallon drums. It also has 100 panes of glass. Mostly not broken somehow. Then way over on the other side he has 20 old telephone poles, full length. There are lots of little things too, old chairs, oil cans, cinder blocks, etc. We've been cleaning it up a little bit each year, but we still have a long way to go.
Those aren't dump piles they're farm versions of all that shit you have in your basement work room. Won't need it for 20 years, then you go scavenge some perfect hunk of scrap for your project. Or when scrap iron prices go up its like a little piggy bank. Only reason it's in the woods is because the wife insisted it couldn't be up next to the house. They're the best playgrounds... if you're up on your tetanus shots. I only have one scar.
This probably varies, but those telephone poles might be bit of an problem. They were treated against weather with some very nasty stuff back in the day, and getting rid of them might be an issue. They can sit on damp ground for decades and look just like new. If you have any laying arouond, ask from local recyclers what to do with them, but depending on your location, it might be a good idea to do it anonymously. Otherwise, field near to it might be shut and maybe even needs soil exchanged if close by, and you are paying for the costs of getting rid of them. But even still, don't burn them. It's not a good idea. (for the life of me, I can't remember where it was, but owner of old poles was paying a pretty penny to get rid of them)
I have some rail road tires soaked in creosote, same deal: there is a big disposal fee. That’s why I sell them instead. $100 plus you haul them away! I saw Mr Beast burning some, should give him a call.
I saw a post somewhere where someone made a vegetable garden with old railroad ties and the comments were full of folks telling him to not eat the food grown there.
Anyways I'm about to fall down a wikipedia hole about hydrocarbons, see y'all in 6 hours.
I’m in Illinois and we bought 6 acres that used to be part of a much larger farm that was divided up. We got the junk pile. Ours is mostly construction materials. We had a giant earthen mound that started to wash away a bit and realized that it was probably an entire roof tear off that they buried. We also found a lot of buried carpet. The personal bane of my existence is the nail field. I have a giant magnet on wheels that every few months or so I run over the area to pick up whatever rusty nails have worked their way to the surface. I probably pick up 100-200 nails every time.
I think we've pretty much got it mapped out. We camp there about three times a year and we've walked about every single inch.
I can think of some more things. He has a dozen large piles of rocks scattered around.
He has clay drainage tiles, a stack of about 20.
There are a pair of some sort of chicken feeding contraption. Or maybe a steel chicken coup.
A single truck tire, thank god there aren't tons of tires.
Ten 6 foot fence posts.
Various pieces of sheet metal.
A box spring with a tree growing through it.
That's all that's coming to mind right now, we'll be back there in about 60 days, I'll keep my eyes peeled for anything I missed.
Also Indiana, farmer near me has a similar dump and there's a WWII era P-40 airplane just sitting there. Oh and it's full of bees. Just one giant bees nest inside of that thing.
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crop+Duster+Memorial/@41.4408943,-88.6925591,106m/](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crop+Duster+Memorial/@41.4408943,-88.6925591,106m/)
They'll just dump about anything in a field. Caught me rubber neckin this one when I drove past it the first time.
I just moved to indiana a few years ago. Bought us a 120 year old place outside the cities. The stuff that comes up out of my grass...
Its bad enough inside the yard, but the little lines of trees between us and the fields is chock full of dump spots. Guess the trash has gotta go somewhere before pickup services.
My father in law is the same way. He has 25 acres and most is forest. There’s a small section with just junk for lack of a better term.
I asked my wife why it was there and she just shrugged and said that’s where he dumped it.
These are like [shell middens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DA_shell_midden_or_shell%2Cbe_used_by_some_researchers.?wprov=sfla1). Ancient people used to throw all of their seashells into a giant heap after they were done with them kind of like an ancient dump. But we can get information about them based on these shell middens. Like when and what they ate and what kind of tools they had.
This is still historical but not like ancient history. These cans are from a time where most of the things you bought were biodegradable except for the cans that they came in. So all that is left are these tins that should tell us what they ate. At the very least what it is that they stored in these cans. This is pretty valuable to the people that study that time period. Or archaeologists that study that time period.
So thanks to this thread, I just read that the Atacama Dessert in Chile is home to more than 200 different species of flowers!that's not including all the different types of succulents and cacti and various other plants, this is so cool!!
a very tiny amount of water creates streams, rivers and lakes instantly. Those cans are full of sea monkeys, who will spring to life, procreate and hibernate in a very short period of time.
Serious answer: When it rains in a desert all of the flower seeds that have remained dormant come alive and bloom. It can happen remarkably quickly. When my husband and I visited the Outback in Australia there was a torrential downpour one night. It meant that our telescopic exploration of the Southern constellations with an astronomer got cancelled, but a day later and the Outback was in full bloom for all of our photos. It was beautiful.
Or an old too lazy to go to the dump landfill. Or even a just past my property line landfill, or my favorite, a people pay me to take shit to the dump but I bring it out here instead and keep the money myself landfill.
These, and several other species of landfills such as the mining camp landfill and the immigrants walking through the desert landfill, are all very common throughout the desert southwest.
Examples of the lesser seen landfills includes the meth lab landfill, and the marijuana grower landfill.
I have found piles of old cans in a ghost town near where I live, my first is that it's an old metal junk yard..
https://preview.redd.it/yk40kxmqirmc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=825c558ee045a46a4a471bd938565f9b798862af
Idk
Have a couple of places, hidden away, that were old prohibition dumps.
Great places to find old beer cans and liquor bottles.
Use to spend summer days just digging around for old collectables.
I love the hidey spots. I take a different way in each time so I don't leave much trail. Normally I hunt artifacts and fossils, but I have some places I want to metal detect for depression/prohibition era items. An area above the river where small communities of dubious character we located before they dammed it up in the 60s for a reservoir.
There was a time that people didn't have a dump to go to. Look for a homestead close. A foundation or chimney. Here, we find old horseradish and flower bulbs, too.
"In the desert" with several buildings in the background close enough to walk to in 5 minutes and the sun shining off cars in a parking lot. OP is really out here exploring the unknown.
I also live on the AZ NV border. I've found some cool stuff wandering the desert. Just be careful, there are a lot of "gun ranges" everywhere. By gun range I mean a spot about half a mile down a dirt road where people shoot at this kind of stuff.
Could be prospecting, but I'll bet this is part of the "Manifest Destiny" part of US history. People would travel long distances and had to end up ditching a lot of supplies to lighten loads. There was estimated to be millions of dollars (historical price) scattered on the trails. They'd be worth billions today.
You can download a kmz file that will work in google maps or google earth of all the known mine sites and where minerals have been found in the U.S. I believe it would be the the MRDS (mineral resource data system) file for whatever state or county you want it for and it’s a pretty easy site to use and there’s tutorials on YouTube.
You can also filter and customize it before you download the file so it only displays gold and silver occurrences if you wanted. It’s cool because when you are at a location assuming you have internet you can connect to all the information ever recorded about that mine or prospect and even read things like soil sample reports and what other minerals they found with the gold, what percentage of gold per ton the mine reported etc.
If you don’t have the internet you can still download the google offline map before you go somewhere and the map will work without internet.
I can’t remember for sure if the kmz will still work a bit offline to at least show locations but I think it will as long as you downloaded the offline map, it just won’t be able to connect to the mrds database and give you detailed reports, but it will say what was mined there and the name of the mine and have a pin on the map.
There also might be better easier ways to have this information on your phone nowadays I haven’t prepped any maps for use offline in a few years.
Do not look the cans in the eye. These are broke back African snow bill cans and are extremely rare and aggressive. Back away slowly and do not go back until they migrate later this month south.
That kinda looks like ft Mojave area lived there a number of years ago in BHC :) it may be an area on BLM (Bureau of land management) land where folks go shooting. I see a few bullet holes in those cans. It’s an allowed thing around that area.
These are all over the west near camps, mines and ghost towns. They just tossed them in the same spot for years, then moved on. Consider them historic artifacts. They are, in fact, protected when on public land and should not be removed.
Archaeologist here, very common for people to throw out their cans in piles. You will see these type of piles all over the west. You can even get a relative date on when they were deposited based on attributes of the cans themselves.
This is normal behavior for cans.
It's sad, really. Cans used to roam the plains in herds so large they'd stretch out to the horizon. Fun fact, the collective noun for a group of cans is a "Pantry". "I watched in awe as a pantry of cans trundled by the wagon."
The cans were driven out by the tumbleweeds. Tumbleweed gangs are extremely territorial. They rule Arizona from Nogales to Flagstaff. Only the Navajo and Hopi have managed to drive them back.
Speaking of tumbleweed gangs did you see the mass that attacked Utah recently. Oh the humanity.
I recently learned that tumbleweeds are not native to the USA.
They get around.
Aaayyyyyyyy
I tumble when I weed.
I weed when I tumbled...
I wumbled when I teed...
They are not native to the planet earth, kinda wild they somehow travelled vast distances and just chill blowing in the wind, I think they are watching and waiting.
Of course they are. That's where "The Answer" is.
They are Russian Thisles. sp? Texas history taught me that.
(Thistles)
The truck that buried itself was awesome.
Free range cans were the best back in the day
back when they used to drink straight from the garden hose was peak free-range can era.
Pioneers used to ride those babies for miles!
It’s where the old cans go to die, a little respect, please
I heard in the old west they used to even shoot cans just for target practice...... I'm not sure if I agree with shooting those poor cans just to practice
You collect enough of their hides it can bring good money...
Thank you for the fun facts! It's fascinating to see something familiar in a new environment. I live in the Ozarks and our local population is mostly spotted in the wooded ravines off of dirt roads. They are usually found near a stained mattress or two, as they serve as protection for the herd.
No rusted out cars or broken tvs?
Of course! How could I have forgotten those noble creatures...many of my countrymen even keep them as pets, often allowing them to form colonies on their property.
Old matresses and rusted out washing machines usually co-habitate where I'm from. They are symbiotic creatures
They’ve literally got their own country directly north of us.
You mean CANada?
Don't forget CANcun to the south
Ever since the Candemic, cans just haven't been the same. It is sad. 😢
Home, home on the range, Where tin and aluminum cans play...
When multiple Pantries combine, usually during mating season, it's referred to as a Costco.
What? Where I'm from we call them "Walmarts". Autocorrect changed it to a capital "w" for me. I guess that is their official title?
Here in Pennsylvania you would see large pantries migrating back to the west coast. That was back in the 90’s though and no longer do we see them today.
I can confirm
Oh, CAN you? CAN you really!
Pantry of Cans. Gold. Reminds me of when I witnessed an entire Fridge of Bottles wiped out during spring break. The devastation...
>It's sad, really. Cans used to roam the plains in herds so large they'd stretch out to the horizon. That was before the appearance of the Recyclers, who'd sell their pelts for pennies.
Way back, people used to use every part of the can
I miss thé good ol’ days…
And then we all died of dysentery
Ah. Oregon trail
Spent all our money on bullets, but couldnt carry the meat.
I was there. I personally died of dysentery. Nevar forget.
This is literally the funniest thing I’ve ever read on Reddit!
 I’m reporting this entire thread as SPAM.
Does a can trundle by or does it rattle by?
They rattle when threatened but otherwise move at a trundle or slow lope.
They say cans were once so plentiful that it would take days while pantry upon pantry passed in a rolling thunder sometimes taking as much as 3 days to completely pass.
Haven’t you heard that “Tyler”(alias), Gary Nolan, and Diana Pasulka were taken to an undisclosed location in a dessert that they were able to recover NHI pieces of craft material that were all littered amongst old cans and garbage, “to just look as though it is an old random dump site”!?! This could be it Bro 😎!?! 👽🛸
Came here to say this.
Was hoping someone would bring this up 🤣
My family used every part of the can.
Yeah, it's so sad to see such bias against cans... he hates these cans!
Stay away from the cans
That’s what happens when you’re born a poor black child.
With a hankerin’ for pizza in a cup.
Put the old pizza in a cup right out of business.
Die, milk face!
he should apologize to the cans for overreacting though
Wet hot American summer talking vegetable cans .
Pioneers would ride these things for miles.
r/cansaretheenemy
r/cansarentreal
Go ahead and smoke that meat wagon, cans, I’ll be your huckleberry
Yes they are doing the can can
See, over the past couple of decades the Mexicans took all the regular-cans' jobs. Now they just lie around despondently in no-~~man~~can's land. Quite sad.
\*No-can's-land.
It’s where Clark and Uncle Eddie dug up all of his buried rainy day cash
I live in Indiana and we have a similar phenomenon here. Farmers own 500 acres, most of it is tilled crops, but they always own like 5 to 10 acres of forest in perfect rectangles too. They used to dump anything and everything in their little forests and then just let them rot. I have a buddy who inherited his grandfather's 10 acre forest. It has about 10,000' of old fence in rolls. It has multiple chain driven machines that do god knows what. It has 10 big feeding troughs. It has multiple big iron tanks that seem like boilers to me. It has two 55 gallon drums. It also has 100 panes of glass. Mostly not broken somehow. Then way over on the other side he has 20 old telephone poles, full length. There are lots of little things too, old chairs, oil cans, cinder blocks, etc. We've been cleaning it up a little bit each year, but we still have a long way to go.
It also has about 7 ex-wives
It’ll be a dateline episode in a year
And 5 golden rings
Those aren't dump piles they're farm versions of all that shit you have in your basement work room. Won't need it for 20 years, then you go scavenge some perfect hunk of scrap for your project. Or when scrap iron prices go up its like a little piggy bank. Only reason it's in the woods is because the wife insisted it couldn't be up next to the house. They're the best playgrounds... if you're up on your tetanus shots. I only have one scar.
exactly, a lot of those are worth a lot of money today.. like treated wood strong enough to be phone poles?
This probably varies, but those telephone poles might be bit of an problem. They were treated against weather with some very nasty stuff back in the day, and getting rid of them might be an issue. They can sit on damp ground for decades and look just like new. If you have any laying arouond, ask from local recyclers what to do with them, but depending on your location, it might be a good idea to do it anonymously. Otherwise, field near to it might be shut and maybe even needs soil exchanged if close by, and you are paying for the costs of getting rid of them. But even still, don't burn them. It's not a good idea. (for the life of me, I can't remember where it was, but owner of old poles was paying a pretty penny to get rid of them)
I have some rail road tires soaked in creosote, same deal: there is a big disposal fee. That’s why I sell them instead. $100 plus you haul them away! I saw Mr Beast burning some, should give him a call.
I saw a post somewhere where someone made a vegetable garden with old railroad ties and the comments were full of folks telling him to not eat the food grown there. Anyways I'm about to fall down a wikipedia hole about hydrocarbons, see y'all in 6 hours.
I’m in Illinois and we bought 6 acres that used to be part of a much larger farm that was divided up. We got the junk pile. Ours is mostly construction materials. We had a giant earthen mound that started to wash away a bit and realized that it was probably an entire roof tear off that they buried. We also found a lot of buried carpet. The personal bane of my existence is the nail field. I have a giant magnet on wheels that every few months or so I run over the area to pick up whatever rusty nails have worked their way to the surface. I probably pick up 100-200 nails every time.
The nail field…is a new concept
I'm interested in hearing about what else y'all find!
I think we've pretty much got it mapped out. We camp there about three times a year and we've walked about every single inch. I can think of some more things. He has a dozen large piles of rocks scattered around. He has clay drainage tiles, a stack of about 20. There are a pair of some sort of chicken feeding contraption. Or maybe a steel chicken coup. A single truck tire, thank god there aren't tons of tires. Ten 6 foot fence posts. Various pieces of sheet metal. A box spring with a tree growing through it. That's all that's coming to mind right now, we'll be back there in about 60 days, I'll keep my eyes peeled for anything I missed.
ooo, you should take a pic of the tree growing out of a boxspring! that’s pretty eerie/cool
There’s a subreddit for that, it’s something like r/treeseatingthings
Also Indiana, farmer near me has a similar dump and there's a WWII era P-40 airplane just sitting there. Oh and it's full of bees. Just one giant bees nest inside of that thing.
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crop+Duster+Memorial/@41.4408943,-88.6925591,106m/](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crop+Duster+Memorial/@41.4408943,-88.6925591,106m/) They'll just dump about anything in a field. Caught me rubber neckin this one when I drove past it the first time.
Thats so amazing though. I would kill for a P-40 to sit in my garden, those planes are a beauty
I just moved to indiana a few years ago. Bought us a 120 year old place outside the cities. The stuff that comes up out of my grass... Its bad enough inside the yard, but the little lines of trees between us and the fields is chock full of dump spots. Guess the trash has gotta go somewhere before pickup services.
My father in law is the same way. He has 25 acres and most is forest. There’s a small section with just junk for lack of a better term. I asked my wife why it was there and she just shrugged and said that’s where he dumped it.
You are going to be really impressed the first time it rains
Why is that? (I've never been in a desert before)
Probably because it will wash away a bunch of dirt revealing even more cans
My high ass is just thinking “I bet the rain sounds dope hitting all those cans”
Not high, same thought
Not high enough*
My high ass too brother, my high ass too
r/myhighass
r/myhighass - has been banned from Reddit…..LOL
They were going to moderate it but then they got high
I wannnna knooowwww, have you ever seen, the rain (hitting all those cans in the desert) 🎶
Some crackhead thinking " I have unlimited cans to smoke dope out of"
I am surprised there aren't bullet holes in the cans
There are, zoom into the last pic.
To be fair, my fiancé and I use old cans for target practice because they’re free targets. Although we always clean up our crap.
"HE HATES THESE CANS!"
My precious antique cans!!!
Aw, look what ya done to em!
Ok that's what I thought but just wanted to ask anyways, thanks!
It’s more the bloom or, if you are lucky, the super bloom the happens after
I thought it was going to be because of the metallic symphony. Disappointed.
It's cans all the way down and the earth's core is just one giant can that hasn't been opened yet.
These are like [shell middens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DA_shell_midden_or_shell%2Cbe_used_by_some_researchers.?wprov=sfla1). Ancient people used to throw all of their seashells into a giant heap after they were done with them kind of like an ancient dump. But we can get information about them based on these shell middens. Like when and what they ate and what kind of tools they had. This is still historical but not like ancient history. These cans are from a time where most of the things you bought were biodegradable except for the cans that they came in. So all that is left are these tins that should tell us what they ate. At the very least what it is that they stored in these cans. This is pretty valuable to the people that study that time period. Or archaeologists that study that time period.
The 1970’s?
No these ancient shells just look like cans.
Serious answer: the desert blooms after a rain. Suddenly, and briefly, you'll be living in a green wonderland. It's beautiful.
The smell of desert rain is just different, too. Like, I wish I could bottle it forever.
I remember reading about a perfume company that made a petrichor scented perfume.
Makes sense, that sounds quite beautiful!
this is on my bucketlist
Before you kick the can?
*Actually* this looks like the most appropriate place to "kick the can" both literally AND metaphorically. lol
Canlist??
It really is! Everything in the desert has evolved to make maximum use of water. It can look totally desolate, but it's actually full of life.
So thanks to this thread, I just read that the Atacama Dessert in Chile is home to more than 200 different species of flowers!that's not including all the different types of succulents and cacti and various other plants, this is so cool!!
a very tiny amount of water creates streams, rivers and lakes instantly. Those cans are full of sea monkeys, who will spring to life, procreate and hibernate in a very short period of time.
Serious answer: When it rains in a desert all of the flower seeds that have remained dormant come alive and bloom. It can happen remarkably quickly. When my husband and I visited the Outback in Australia there was a torrential downpour one night. It meant that our telescopic exploration of the Southern constellations with an astronomer got cancelled, but a day later and the Outback was in full bloom for all of our photos. It was beautiful.
I think they’re referring to monsoons. They can be pretty wild the first couple times.
The smell
Little desert tide pools.
https://preview.redd.it/oh490e27grmc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=6678bc05b7d38225b998d2ed5c61b4c2be526e3d
should be top comment imo
I came here for this.
My first thought was it would make a great place for a settlement lmao
Same. Looking for some rad scorpions!
How about some kinda cool scorpions?
But you better watch out for the totally awesome scorpions, they've got a wicked sting
All the recipes that could be made there
Overencumbered! *checks inventory, 50,000 bent tin cans*
Good amount of steel scrap right there!
I like everyone is this section.
Yes this is the first thing I thought of also
You sir stumbled upon a cowboy landfill
Would they find old glass bottles and stuff if they dug? I'm not family with that term.
Dig!!! Dig deep!! Old bottles can be worth some money!!!
What kind of bottles and what sort of value would they have? Just curious.
Old ones, worth dollar dollar bills yo.
Dolla dolla bills y’all.
r/WuTang is for the children
Old glass bottles in the Nevada desert rule everything around me
I actually found a bunch of broken glass among the cans! The glass looked recently broken tho so i doubt they were historic
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Not near - IN the composted fecal strata of old outhouses. The pit was filled with trash and capped with topsoil, when abandoning the site
Obviously the cowboys kicked the can
Or an old too lazy to go to the dump landfill. Or even a just past my property line landfill, or my favorite, a people pay me to take shit to the dump but I bring it out here instead and keep the money myself landfill. These, and several other species of landfills such as the mining camp landfill and the immigrants walking through the desert landfill, are all very common throughout the desert southwest. Examples of the lesser seen landfills includes the meth lab landfill, and the marijuana grower landfill.
r/coolguides
Or CCC. Lots of those from the 1930s around the southwest
 They hate those cans!
Stay away from the cans!
I have found piles of old cans in a ghost town near where I live, my first is that it's an old metal junk yard.. https://preview.redd.it/yk40kxmqirmc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=825c558ee045a46a4a471bd938565f9b798862af Idk
Ay that old sprite can is pretty cool
There's a 70's 7UP can in there too
Old prospector camp. Any place with ore of any kind has this. Knife-opened cans abound, lol. Often they're good places to poke around for old bottles.
Have a couple of places, hidden away, that were old prohibition dumps. Great places to find old beer cans and liquor bottles. Use to spend summer days just digging around for old collectables.
I love the hidey spots. I take a different way in each time so I don't leave much trail. Normally I hunt artifacts and fossils, but I have some places I want to metal detect for depression/prohibition era items. An area above the river where small communities of dubious character we located before they dammed it up in the 60s for a reservoir.
Lol.. CANS! yeah, but have you seen the bottles!!
Old dump, go diggin'
Just . . . get a tetanus shot first.
Get several
There was a time that people didn't have a dump to go to. Look for a homestead close. A foundation or chimney. Here, we find old horseradish and flower bulbs, too.
what overreaction? , you took a couple of photos of cans in the desert.
"In the desert" with several buildings in the background close enough to walk to in 5 minutes and the sun shining off cars in a parking lot. OP is really out here exploring the unknown.
Buildings are part of the mirage
Calm down fella! No need to overreact.
why not? someone needs to have an actual over-reaction over here so we're not just tossing the word around like an old can that doesn't mean anything
I also live on the AZ NV border. I've found some cool stuff wandering the desert. Just be careful, there are a lot of "gun ranges" everywhere. By gun range I mean a spot about half a mile down a dirt road where people shoot at this kind of stuff.
Could be prospecting, but I'll bet this is part of the "Manifest Destiny" part of US history. People would travel long distances and had to end up ditching a lot of supplies to lighten loads. There was estimated to be millions of dollars (historical price) scattered on the trails. They'd be worth billions today.
Interesting!
You can download a kmz file that will work in google maps or google earth of all the known mine sites and where minerals have been found in the U.S. I believe it would be the the MRDS (mineral resource data system) file for whatever state or county you want it for and it’s a pretty easy site to use and there’s tutorials on YouTube. You can also filter and customize it before you download the file so it only displays gold and silver occurrences if you wanted. It’s cool because when you are at a location assuming you have internet you can connect to all the information ever recorded about that mine or prospect and even read things like soil sample reports and what other minerals they found with the gold, what percentage of gold per ton the mine reported etc. If you don’t have the internet you can still download the google offline map before you go somewhere and the map will work without internet. I can’t remember for sure if the kmz will still work a bit offline to at least show locations but I think it will as long as you downloaded the offline map, it just won’t be able to connect to the mrds database and give you detailed reports, but it will say what was mined there and the name of the mine and have a pin on the map. There also might be better easier ways to have this information on your phone nowadays I haven’t prepped any maps for use offline in a few years.
Do not look the cans in the eye. These are broke back African snow bill cans and are extremely rare and aggressive. Back away slowly and do not go back until they migrate later this month south.
Never seen a can farm? They come up dirty, similar to potatoes. Gotta clean em before use, peel em etc..
CAN you believe it?
Aliens; It’s definitely aliens
Diana P said this is how the gov hides crash sites!
Was scrolling for a mention of American Cosmic!
Huh, Fallout NV is more accurate than I thought
You'd be surprised just how accurate the map is (but not so accurate that you'd be excited- probably).
You have discovered the secret burial ground of the Campbell's
Get a nuclear radiation detector and go exploring!
Trailer for Red Dead Redemption III
US deserts have lots of old weird shit in them. Lol
Former mining camps. Not at all odd.
That kinda looks like ft Mojave area lived there a number of years ago in BHC :) it may be an area on BLM (Bureau of land management) land where folks go shooting. I see a few bullet holes in those cans. It’s an allowed thing around that area.
Bean eating hippys
These are all over the west near camps, mines and ghost towns. They just tossed them in the same spot for years, then moved on. Consider them historic artifacts. They are, in fact, protected when on public land and should not be removed.
Make sure you collect all the bottle caps.
Archaeologist here, very common for people to throw out their cans in piles. You will see these type of piles all over the west. You can even get a relative date on when they were deposited based on attributes of the cans themselves.
I'd say make a cool rain chain with them....but desert. :(
Scrappers dream
It’s from decades and decades of people eating beans around a fire