base camp

“Dunsmuir is the perfect base camp to explore Northern California’s natural beauty,” says the city’s visitors website.

In 2019, we went to the exact spot where these technicians from the mining company had illegally entered the property to set up a sort of makeshift base camp to do this soil and water analysis to test for trace amounts and minerals.

We applied in the area of the category of urgent concern and conservation, citing that this was very likely headed in the direction of becoming a mine very soon, and we wanted to go to exactly that base camp where they had set up shop.

But our group and this mining company that came in to set up the base camp very likely could have been the first human beings to set foot in this area.

Our collecting really didn't happen very much outside of about a 100 meter radius of our base camp.