This was my first dumping trip with a group of RB'rs and my first time dumping (and actually finding something) outside of Michigan. I arrived in Wisconsin early so I killed an hour scatter dumping some nearby areas and found a small handful of cans. My first can dumped in WI is a green Drewrys Ale.
Met up with the group and took off. The first day in Wisconsin was pretty slow. A few dumps but some had no beer cans. We did manage to find a decent pile of cans at a camping area by a river that I had picked out. Oconto, hamms zips and flats, Miller grafs sodas. During the day my eye picked out a few bottles from the road, including this absolutely stunning 1890's Hutchinson bottle and 3 1920's sodas next to some quart-gallon beer bottles.
The last good spot of the day was a another dump on a hill on the way to another camping area. This place was the best spot of the day. Kingsbury cones, blatz and schlitz flats and tons of 60's stuff.
I kept a few cans and a 1928 Wisconsin plate from here.
Second day we focused on Michigan. Every spot we hit had cans and dumps. Both trucks split up again. Rusty, Aho, Art, and Rockbob in one with , 2 gallon Tom, Me, Bjorn and Patrick Beastofburden in the Other. My 2 spots I had picked for pit/scatter dumping were busts and we both split up. Shortly after this we found a massive multi residential dump that was practically 30ft long and 4 feet deep. 1957 all up to 1970 or so.
Tons of Bosch! There were some oddities dumped here, a Bubs and Van Merritt I believe and I personally dumped a few gettelmen 1000$ cans and a single meister brau bock. I also found a silver cream flat top here, which made me do a happy dance. Rest of the day was just the usual suspects. I ended up finding a decent goebel bantam at one of the last spots.
We all met up at Aho's afterwards and swapped stories with cold ones. Jay Sansom and his brother arrived shortly thereafter and boy was I happy to meet them.
I had to leave early the next morning (8 hour drive home) and couldn't go dumping with Jay
on Sunday which was a bummer. I had less than 2 hours to check a few spots on my way back home. Pretty much all duds except for 1 spot I didn't plan on stopping at had prewar blatz cones! A most wanted can for me. Also found an abandoned section of highway with a bridge. This would've been a killer spot for cans but the wet rocky ground proved that wrong. Great weekend was had by all. I know I got several cans that are going on my shelf.
