Owyhee Mountains Greening Up Nicely
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Looking south while in McKeeth Wash of the Owyhee's
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Slow Moving Thunderstorm Just to the East
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Thunderstorm that stayed with us for about an hour
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Snow Capped Silver City Mountains
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Zoomed in on the Silver City Mountains of Owyhee County
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What Was This Area?
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Is this an old Mountain Home AFB Missile Silo Site?
This fenced-in area (open gate) had two large electrical panels and a few round metal fence posts at the gate that were much bigger than necessary. While the total area was much smaller than I'd expect an old missile silo site to be, I cannot come up with any other explanation.
What do you think it is?
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Rock Hounding McKeeth Wash
We didn't spend more than 30 minutes looking around this little known wash. I got a tip from one of my readers this wash contained some nice looking opal but we didn't see much of interest. There was a lot of nice looking quartz but nothing worth sticking in our pockets. Of course, McKeeth Wash runs much futher south and across the Poison Creek Cut-Off Road. You may want to explore another portion McKeeth Wash.
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Comments, Questions or Answers
So what do you think? Let me know what you think about these photos.
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2011-05-16 04:44:03 | Tim Bondy the Admin
Dirtman...thanks for the info on Pershing missile site. I figured the site was too small for an Atlas missile site. There was no earthen bunker visible at least from what I saw. I'll check it out more carefully next time I'm back down there.
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2011-05-17 19:17:16 | Dirtman - Atals Sites
There were only three locations for the Atlas missisles. One near Orena, one off Orchard Road and one off Hwy 51 south of Bruneau.
The huge bunker I spoke of is off Missle Base Road, west of Grand View. Ask some of the locals if they know where it is for a better location.
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2011-05-17 20:48:46 | Tim Bondy the Admin
Hey Dirtman...how about a Titan Missile site. Not a Launch Control Facility but just a silo? Just seems unusual there would be a Pershing site in Idaho but I'm dumb about this stuff.
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2011-05-18 18:33:59 | dirtman
I stand corrected. There were 3 locations for the Titan Missile in the area. Each one had 3 missiles. I did a googl search and found that. They provided the GPS coordinations if you want to find them. I know for a fact that Pershing Missles were here and were part of the White Sands Missle Range. I am not sure of the dates. The huge bunker I am talking about is left over from them.
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The picture you posted is of what I beleive is an old Pershing II missle site. There were several scattered in the mountains. The Pershing II was truck mounted missle system. If you come across a large earthen bunker, that was the launch control facility.