GLASS MOUNTAIN IS A VERY NOTICEABLE MOUNTAIN OF BLACK OBSIDIAN OF VERY HIGH QUALITY IN THE GOOSENEST RANGER DISTRICT. IT WAS LOCATED IN THE LAVA TIMBER SALE WHICH IS THE LAND THAT I STUDIED FOR MY THESIS. IT IS INTERESTING TO AN ARCHEOLOGIST TO TRY TO DISCERN IF THE FLAKES AROUND THIS MOUNTAIN WERE MADE BY LIGHTNING STRIKES OR FOREST FIRES OR BY MAN. THERE ARE MANY FLAKES SURROUNDING THIS 20 FOOT HIGH MOUNTAIN. WE TRIED WALKING ON THE GLASS BUT FOUND IT USELESS AND DANGEROUS.
SOME OF THE FLAKES WERE MAN MADE AS WE COULD DISTINGUISH CERTAIN BULBS OF PERCUSSION AND PRESSURE FLAKING. THIS LAND IS IN A PINE AND MIXED WOODLAND FOREST WHERE THE NATIVE AMERICANS (MODOC AND KLAMATH) INDIANS LIVED DURING PREHISTORIC TIMES. THERE APPEARED TO BE MANY SMALL CAMPFIRE S LOCATED NEARBY. THE MOUNTAIN PROBABLY SHIELDED THEM FROM WINDSTORMS AS WELL.
IN SOME PARTS OF THIS COUNTRY THERE WERE LAVA TUBES OR CAVES MADE DURING MANY MILLENIA AGO. SOME ANGLOS FOUND THESE AS WELL AS THE NATIVES. THE MODOC WAR WAS FOUGHT IN THIS LOCALITY AND THE NATIVES AVOIDED BEING CAUGHT BY STAYING IN SOME OF THESE LAVA CAVES UNDERGROUND. IT IS VERY RUGGED LAND TO WALK ON AS IT IS ALL CINDERS AND LAVA. DURING THE WINTER THE TUBES HAD SOME WATER FROM RAINFALL OR SNOW THAT THE NATIVES COULD USE.
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