Above a creek, below a road

Here is a small part of something I found this weekend. The video is of this little bit of stone wall that is mostly destroyed because of the road. The road is a recent construction, as it is not on the 1965 USGS map and/or ACME mapper. It is a seasonal, limited use road. The video starts at a small bit of stone wall and ends looking upstream, toward a larger section of somewhat intact stone wall:



In the video, when I was talking about some of the rocks having been brought in to construct the road, my belief is that the red shale on the bank was used as part of the road bed and tumbled down.

Also, of the sites I mentioned in the video, where I was pointing, the first one is a site downstream that I have yet to post about. The second one (upstream and above where two creeks meet), I posted about here and here. I'm starting to consider that this site is not as small as I originally thought, if the quartz rocks, rock piles, wedged rocks, bits of stone wall that don't connect to anything, crude stone row around the majority of the circumference of the mountaintop, and other things I've been finding over there are somehow connected.

I walked over to that second stretch of stone wall, a bit further upstream, and found a nice sized quartz rock in the stone wall:



Just a little further upstream, this pair of rock piles that gave a sense of pile gap pile, with my back to the stream and the bits of stone wall that remained, just uphill near where the truck is parked.



But, I couldn't stick around for a closer look because a hen turkey had just flown off her nest that was just a bit to the right in the last photo. I didn't look to see if she had eggs yet, I just left as fast as I could so she would come back.

I'm going to post some more photos of both the upstream and downstream sites later this week.