Oroblanco
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Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp said:ORO, one thing always makes me curious. The remark is made that it has a hidden entrance so is difficult to find and enter ??
Shucks ORO, if you were walking along a cliff and suddenly spotted a large OOP delta, you would just HAVE to investigate no?
A canyon the size of the zig Zag one, would be a natural collector of water from the storms, it would have to exit and it would carry along a tremendous amount of soil, and rocks to be deposited in the main exit. Among this debris would also be Gold, if present inside. Over the years this delta must have accumulated enough materiel to be of a large, readily spotted size
Any reasonable prospector traveling along would readily spot it, and go check it for signs. He would find the hidden entrance while doing so.
Sooo??
Just curious.
Don Jose de La Mancha
Well a delta with no visible source might be cause for investigation, but a delta may not form the way it would stand out either. It could be inside a curve, or obliterated by floods etc. Then too remember the original version, Gotchear stood directly in front of the entrance and no one could see it until he stepped into it. It has to be so difficult to see that you can stand in front of it, look right at it, and not be able to pick it out, since we know that was the case with the Adams party. At least as far as the story goes, in the opinion of many all of these lost mines are just stories.
Also we do not know the size of the zig-zag canyon except by guess work; it could be quite small or quite large. It is not safe to make assumptions about how big it ought to look or what size it will be, before seeing it.
So I guess I have to respectfully disagree. I don't think that finding Adam's canyon is going to be easy by any measure.
Oroblanco