I worked for a mining company in college. It was a quarry operation where a typical shot was 50 holes drilled on 5’ centers. Usually two sticks of dynamite went down a hole first then fill it up to the top with ANFO.
One time there was a hard rain a few hours before and the foreman said to keep dropping in sticks until you heard them quit splashing. Instead of two sticks most holes had six.
I was under a loader bucket about 150 yards away when the shot went off. Fly rock the size of footballs came flying down and tore up the conveyor belts, punched holes in shed roofs, and banged up a lot of equipment. I got soaked by a piece that landed in a puddle in front of the loader. It took an entire day to repair the belts and equipment.
Good times.
Woohoo!!
Just up the road from Canon City, you'll find the very high suspension bridge over the Arkansas River. Ride the funicular down to the river/railroad. Look at the sheet metal roofing over the platform. Notice the holes in it that Mother Nature has made.