Day three was a copy of day two. I started real low in the long wash to see if I could prove how far down the gold had made it.

Bodie, California, in its heyday, was once rumored to be one of the roughest and most lawless towns in the American West.

The old timers typically washed these areas down to bedrock, and some areas appear terraced. I would imagine this is because these hydraulic mines were generally where the miners found old Tertiary river channels on the sides of mountains that were gold-bearing.