There are always a thousand things to do to get ready for the short summer mining season - but the Holloway Bar Placer Mine is likely one of the only gold mines anywhere which includes running new powerlines for webcams on its "to do" list. Near the end of the last mining season, the gold channels led the mining operation out of the view of the existing webcams and into the trees, making good webcam images of the mining operation difficult to get. So, with the mining plan for the next year or two in mind, one of Al's winter projects was to rebuild the wireless network (watch for a new story coming soon documenting the changes) to make sure that cameras would work in the new mining zone. The first day of the project was to run power to the new minesite, so Scott and Al headed out a few days ago with a couple of spools of electrical wire and the appropriate connectors. The new powerline hooks into an existing outlet near "The Wizard" and worms its way up into the bush above the old mining location. When all was completed, the result was a weatherproof outlet supplying power to two webcams to upload both still images and an occasional webcam stream so that website visitors can keep an eye on what's happening at the minesite. I wonder what the old timers would think if they came across an electrical outlet fastened to a tree?

Plug in to www.hollowaybar.com today!