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Picks & Pans: Winter Prospecting and "Forty Mile" Miller
January 2004 by Ron Wendt
It was in the mid-70s. I had just finished setting my traps out along the river when it dawned on me where “Forty Mile” Miller’s old hardrock outcrop was. Here I was, standing on snowshoes, floundering in three feet of snow, bracing myself so I wouldn’t...
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