Sleep Spot #894,354

Published Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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After leaving Paradox I slept up on Pine Ridge south of the La Sal Mountains. A potential interview with a couple building an off the grid home south of Moab fell through today so tomorrow it's back to Paradox to interview a man who used to work for Atlas Mines in the Old Moab Uranium Mill in the late sixties. This man fell into a vat of what they call yellow cake in the trade.. which is pretty much pure Uranium... After he fell in he had to drive himself home and have a shower and change clothes.. they didn't even provide for him at the site. Can you imagine.. those were the days. He is heavily opposed to the proposed Uranium Mill in Paradox stating.. "I've worked at a Mill... and unless they can prove to me that they'll clean up after they're gone and that they'll have safer work standards, I'm dead against it!"

He's been itchy for 41yrs and has yet to receive compensation from the Atomic Energy Commission or Atlas Mine which is now long since bankrupt. Same old story.

Here are some images from my sleep spot up on Pine Ridge where Moses enjoyed a nice old hunk of hunter's leftovers.

peace,
d

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