Tour Mechanics and Flow for the English Tunnel and Carissa Tours and an Afternoon in the Saloon

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Photograph of the Interior of English Tunnel

This morning, we drove back up to the English Tunnel and the Carissa. Tours of these two features usually have two person crews. One, the leader, delivers the tour content, and the second person, the drag, performs a variety of tasks, most of which are done behind the scenes, and helps keep an eye on stragglers. Today, Joe went over the responsibilities of the drags for both tours. The flow of the Carissa tour has changed since I was here last, so I followed that discussion closely. Tomorrow, Joe will go over the tour content, but I will not make that session (I'm familiar enough with both tours from my previous experience here.)

We drove back into town for lunch. After lunch. Joe took some of the new staff and volunteers to Willow Creek and demonstrated gold panning. They worked at it for about an hour. Later, Connie showed me her bounty- three small flakes of gold. A pretty good take, actually! 

Before going up to the tunnel and the Carissa, Gator and I had grabbed an ice chest, loaded it with blue ice and Sarsaparilla and took it up to the Miner's Exchange Saloon. I opened the saloon after lunch and greeted/gabbed with 15 visitors and sold eight bottles of Sarsaparilla. Pretty slow. I closed the saloon at 4 and called it a day.

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