California vacation digging...

[Cap-Sealed]

Out in California on vacation with Dale, Rusty Jonesin & Bill L....finding lots of cans and hopefully more yet to come!

[Senator Seebs]

Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalute!

[Rand]

OI?

[Sea Monkey]

WOW.......... Great job. Those pits always fascinate me how you guys find and dig them!

[BLindstrom]

What a fantastic time! My arms hurt from digging pits. tge variety of cans was amazing to me. I could have started a separate soda can collection if I wanted. Why are the sodas always in such good shape?

[BLindstrom]

And some good food too!

[Rusty Jonesin]

There was Dumpfest... and then there was California Dump Camp..

What a total awesome adventure this was. Great Time. Mentally I could have gone another week, physically...I didn't realize how wore out I was till I got home.

The Bonanza show was great Ed, It was great to meet and hang out with a bunch of the California/West coast collectors and diggers. Lots of fun and such a historic western town, so cool!

I know and have dug with Ed, But I didn't know Bill till I met him in the Reno airport and then Dale at lunch just a half hour later. Great guys and a great time digging with these three experienced and accomplished diggers.

The camping, digging and just chillin in the mountains KICKED A$$!!

I took a bunch of pictures, here's a few of them.

This is the building where Samuel Clemmons became Mark Twain

We are Here

Bill digging in Pine cones the size of Pineapples

First Camp

Arm loads of cans

Some cans from the first camp, Oakland Bantams

up in the Highlands

squeaked out another Karls can, only one at the bottom of a this pit of Value Lines

Cattle crossing, Mooove over

Camp 2, It was late, dark and all the camps in this area were closed due to fire or Bark Beetles, we found this flat meadow and made camp.

Boulder City

Brew 102

Color in the ground

Feeling Lucky

Salute Pit

Sierra Salute

[Rusty Jonesin]

Ed into another pit

Eastside

a couple more

City Club

a couple more

Clean up dump, 30's cans next to 50's cans to bad condition wasn't better some tough labels in this

of coarse the Acme looks good

Camp 3, A dumpers paradise, lots of pits and a mountain stream to cool down and clean up in.

Dale and his Gold 102

Cooling down

Living it up!!

Steak Night....Grillmaster Ed

California Road Crew

Regal Pale

We were bleeping around a washed out area getting nothing but a couple of roachy Fallstaff's. Then Dale spots this can just laying there, I grab it and it's a....

sweet B&B cone

Padre, Padre, Padre

Dale and some Pre Pro Whiskeys he and Bill dug

[Rusty Jonesin]

I know, just Oly's and Buds but the Oly's are 11oz and 15oz, so clean,.. sweet cans for the shelf.

Big Trees

Ed on the hunt in the land of big trees

Bill into another pit

Keg Beers

Camp activities, wrapping cans!!

Color at the bottom of the pit

Maier wash off clean

California 32'

On the road again

9000 feet

Bill, the digging machine

No were not in the UP

4th Camp

Well that's all for now, hope you enjoyed the pics, as Ed said it's all memories now, but good memories and some nice souvenirs.
Fun times! Get out and Dig, Get out and live!
Here's to mud on your boots,
Rusty

Dump Camp Crew

[BLindstrom]

Awesome post Rusty! I had forgotten about some of those cans already. I am still tired.

[Shevy85Ale]

Great post, great scenery, great pictures, great cans! Thanks for sharing.

[Cap-Sealed]

California vacation diggings: also known as Beer Can Summer Camp!


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https://youtu.be/MiWM_2hPRKg


https://youtu.be/1sAfYTmBst8

[Lovegun]

California vacation diggings: also known as Beer Can Summer Camp!


CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO SEE DUMPING VIDEOS!


https://youtu.be/MiWM_2hPRKg


https://youtu.be/1sAfYTmBst8

Felt like I was standing there with you! Great out of the ground color!

[canaddict]

Wow! Kick *** guys! Looks like another amazing adventure. I love this sport!

[Ziphippie]

Killer post! Our road crews in WI only have one shovel per three men. Bjorn

[Cap-Sealed]

Killer post! Our road crews in WI only have one shovel per three men. BjornIMG_5090.PNG

That was a large signal we were digging to.... but it appeared to be a metal bench or picnic table. We gave up for greener pastures.....

[DanielinAk]

Oh mama this is what fuels me to dig cans. I love it. Congrats fellas on a superb dig. Beautiful country also. I need to move.


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[BostonBob]

Holy cow! That would be a great camping trip! Amazing!

[Cap-Sealed]

Here's Rusty's share of the booty....

[Daev Larrazolo]

A few gems in there

[Rusty Jonesin]

a few Gems

It was a great time and a fruitful adventure. Bill and I got the lions share of the cans, definitely some Gems for the shelf.
Looking forward to heading out west again.
Here's some more pics of my cans.

fresh out of the box

cleaned

projects

little ones before

little ones after

I had no 11oz cans on the shelf before this trip, I now have eight.

11 oz

16oz and 15oz

REGAL & BURGIES

Nine different REGALS

Seven Burgies

Lucky's

MAIER BREWING CO.

12oz group

A couple of these cans are upgrades, but I will add around 65 new cans to the shelf from this trip. The Lucky Ale was one of Utah Mark's cans and was gifted to me from my buddy Dave Rusk, a special gem in my collection.

Karls

Second Karls can I dug, the blue one dug in Oregon with Ed & Scott both times only one found.

Happy Digging, Rusty Brothers
Rusty

[Cap-Sealed]

Those Schmidt City Clubs are the non-Keglined, Pacific Can Co variations!

[agkg25220]

Ed,
Look forward to seeing you at Cabin Fever.I will bring the Old Gold. Art

[canman65]

Nice work guy's! Beautiful photo's as well!

[Cap-Sealed]

An interesting thing about those Cold Braus was I needed them both and didnt even know it! I have an indoor can on the shelf but it is by Edelweiss Div of Drewerys South Bend, so really an Indiana can. We found both metallic red and enamel red Cold Braus but just by Edelweiss - Chicago. Added to cans to the Chicago collection and got rid of the Indiana can (even though it is mint.)

[Rogger]

Great collection. Kudoos!