Golden Spike – from Shooting Range to Senior Card – Joel and Alison’s Excellent Adventures

All of the employees at WRCNU came down with COVID over the weekend so they basically shut the doors to all the volunteers for this week in order to ensure no one else got sick. Due to that, I had the day “off” yesterday and agreed to help Joel with some of the target work that he is involved in at the Golden Spike shooting range. A lot of walking and measuring ensued as Joel needed to work on some of the longer distance (mile) targets!

Sagging 2″ x 4″ framing needed to be replaced on this target.

Just about walked right into this guy’s web – you can see it in the photo below. The spider was easily 2 1/2″ – 3″ long and looked like it was planning on taking down small birds!

Second 1770 yard (mile) target needs new paint and legs.

After we were done with the target work, we drove just about a block down the road to the Golden Spike National Historic Park where I could buy my Lifetime Senior Pass. At $80 it seems like a great deal! They were just setting up to do the historic reenactment of the driving of the last spike to connect the West Coast and East Coast by rail. We had seen this before and it was 90degrees with no shade so we opted to hit the road.