Grizzly Flat Trail, North/South Trail Junction, Closer Look

A return visit to the middle junction of the Grizzly Flat North and South trails. There's a short spur called the Grizzly Flat Cutoff Trail that joins the 2 trails here. Had more time this visit to spend exploring this area.

This is the only large, relatively flat area on this entire ridge. There's a large steel tank here, upon closer inspection, it appears to be around 5000 gallons. I wonder if that vertical pipe runs underground to a water source? Would need to use a metal detector to try and trace where it goes.

Looks like I've finally dialed in the DIY hill shade map calibration. Found the 2 "humps" or piles of dirt at the east end of this area along with the large ditch in the middle. This area has been leveled and a fair amount of earth moved both for that as well as the ditch.

What do you think this area was used for?

About the USGS hill shade maps:
https://apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

More to come, exploring off the the north east looking for signs of pipe and fencing and what looks like a faint trail...

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