 Here she is. Good morning Julie. How are you? Good. We're hiking today. We're gonna hike up in these mountains right now and find a mine. But we have to go around this way to make it easier for ourselves. So let's go hiking. It should be a great day. It's a little overcast. Probably be about 85 though a little warm. It's the way it is. Pretty rugged terrain. Nothing Julie can't handle though. We're down to the canyon and we're gonna go up. It's a pretty big wash coming out of here. It's a big canyon. We're gonna go up this way and then take a left out of it and then up to the mine. We found a can dump. Always a good sign when you're mind-exploring. Means there was a camp around here. There's some tobacco tins. More stuff. Milk cans, bean cans, piece of a shoe, a heel of a shoe. That's pretty common. There's some pottery, a little crock pot. There are nine tobacco tins all in a row here. And then Julie found a cool can. It's got an opening tab like you would use with a key. But they opened it with a knife. The key is not there. What a view again. One thing about mind-exploring we get into some places that have some awesome views. These are very rugged mountains. This is looking the other direction from the last shot I just took. A little hazy today but you can see over into Nevada that's Mount Charleston with the snow on it. Over that way if you can see that. There's a screen maybe used as a classifier of some sort. Here it looks like an old cabin. Oh it's an old trailer. That's what it is. Maybe an old camp trailer. Wow. Wooden spoke trailer turned into a camp trailer. Look at that spoke wheel. You don't see that all the time. A lot of barrels down in the wash below it. It's kind of windy today so you're going to get some wind noise. So you can see this was made into a camp trailer with these curved raptors I guess it would be or roof supports. Look at a cute little cupola for the heater vent. All homemade stuff it's all welded. This is the front corner pieces made out of steel and all this all the roof has collapsed obviously. It looks like all these brackets were homemade too to make that roof unless this was a really old factory job. All on a trailer that's about let's see here. Probably only six by six by 15 roughly. Look what's it say on there. The top part was probably an atomizer and maybe it's a little perfume bottle. There's the new hardshell auto polish. They got a brand on it. Johnson? With Sunstop. I'm almost certain that this is an old ice chest. Not a refrigerator but an ice chest. And the ice would have been down below there. This might even be the top of it over here. I'm guessing. It probably went up here some out. I don't know. At least it would. Two by two. Oh this is a whistle. Oh that's a train whistle. Look at that. That's sitting under there. It's clean as a whistle but look how clean it is down there. It's like it's a whistle. No pun intended. Do I dare blow it? I mean how dirty can it be. That's pretty cool though. Seeing some old guys sitting out whittling this thing away. Lived out in the middle of nowhere in this contraption. You don't find those every day? No. That looks like an old skip bucket. Made of course. Here's a, this looks familiar but I can't remember what it is. One of you guys will tell me and there's this thing. This looks like a rotating display rack for something that you'd see in a store. I don't think it's specific to mine. Something like a merchandise or something that's sitting here. Here's another barrel over here. What's that say? Ream. There you have it. Let's go find the mine. This looks like all paydirt piled here. It's not been processed. Several loads of it right here. Right in front of that old trailer. Otherwise it would be on the waste pile. In the mining dump. One of you around kind of a treacherous old road if you were driving on it. Obviously hasn't been driven on for some time. You definitely wouldn't want to go over the edge here though. I see a barrel way down there. Yeah. Alright we should be getting close to the mine if it's here. It's not even sure if it's really here or not. So here's some stuff. There's an opening here. Oh wow. Look at that. Look at that old door. There's a gas tank from a vehicle in there. Look at that little rail going in there. I'm following this trail past that portal I just saw. Just to see what's down here. That's an interesting looking deal. It must have been a chute. This must have been an ore chute. All you want to do down there is another looks like an ore handling facility. This is following back along the trail that led to the chute. Apparently they didn't haul the ore down the road that we came up. They sent it down that chute. A cabin or something. There's a lot of debris down there. Wood. You thought it was a head frame. There's a piece of full sized rail. Imagine hauling that up here. This is all waste piled down here to my right. Among other stuff. Alright let's go in the, let's go in the mines here we have. It's kind of exciting. Right off I love the door. It's still in good shape. It's made out of 2x6's and 2x12's. Some big flat hinges. And notice that this rock is standing on its end here. And another interesting looking mineral vein over that way. This tin cover for something. Oh it's cool in here. Yeah it's hot out today. This is a kind of fractured rock. The track is still all here so far. It's still very usable. It's in good shape. They did a nice job of it. They're obviously following something the way it's curving around. Once again this pastel color is up here. Mineral vein. Jeff Williams told me what that was but now I can't remember. Yeah he's too smart for me with all the geology and knowledge. Anyway hey Jeff. Hope you guys are doing well today. Hey Jeff. Okay here we have a piece of rubber hose. Looks like airline or waterline one of the other. Looks like a little equipment storage area. They do a light bulb. They can't see anything. A? M? RPM. RPM. Should we go down there? Sure. A little bit of box in it or a bucket of nails. Wow. There's some ventilation pipe and some other stuff. So here's a V-belt pulley. It is part of a headlight assembly. This looks like a pulley for a flat belt. There's a mason jar and a big crock pot. It's good on here. See what's down here. It looks like a piece of drive belt off of something. Not super wide. There's the connector. We'll have to go look at that after a little while if we don't want to do it right now. Here's a box. Phillip's furring nails. Maybe for making their ladders. Yeah we'll have to go up there later. That's too inviting to skip but let's go visit the main level first. How's that sound? Do you think that crock has any writing on the bottom of it? Pacific. Number two Pacific? Yeah. Cool. Okay. Yeah. That u-hose looks familiar to that u-pipe. I can't remember what that's for. Anyway, let's carry on. That was interesting. More stuff. Old something paint. Some parts of some dynamite boxes. Can you pick one over there? Put it on there? Put this one. Let's get something on it. Company. And some paints. Some old cross ties and some paint cans. This is probably looking up to that spot where that other ladder went up. I'm sure we'll be up there before the day is over. I think this is a goldmine. It's there's a lot of stuff around here. There are talc mines. There are silver mines. There are other goldmines but this red, the mine nearby that I've been in here, that was a goldmine had the same red. Do we just bonk her head but she's okay. So here's some lagging. Not real heavy duty. Just one by stuff. Here's where Julie bonked her head. Anyway, it's red. Oh cool. That's that calcite and look at that. I'll say look at the geology. And we come to a big chute. That's got to be coming down from up above there. There's a lot of stuff in here too. This looks all just haphazardly chucked in here for some reason. If you come in here watch out for nails. We don't go very far. We you grab that little box that we went by but look at the look at the mineral vein in here. It's crazy. I'm glad we made the trip up the hill. This is cool. Wow, look at that. I don't believe I've ever seen anything quite like that. What is that? Isn't it got some red on it? Oh, I thought it was a label. Look at this is a hand soldered or brazed box. Take a little closer look at this chute. Now that's all jammed up. There's some burlap sacks that maybe used for something. So yeah, this is a pretty wild vein. This calcite stuff too is kind of strange. But look at the layers of this. It's very loose. Thousands of layers. Alright, let's backtrack to that ladder. See what's up there. Alright, Julie's gonna be the first one to brave the ladder. Hang on tight. A little dusty. What do you see? Oh yeah. Want me to come up? Okay, this is just on top of that little ladder. Crawling around through the low. Goes up that way. A little bit that way. Couple stalls. I guess we're gonna make our way up there. So I just came from down there. Crawled up here. Comes to my intersection. Just goes a little way there and then ends. Goes this way. So I'm gonna crawl up here and see what's anything up there. Okay, so I'm up on top of that little area. That ends right there. And then this goes up. I don't know if you can see some stalls way over there. And I'm gonna have to crawl up there. But it might come get Tom. Alright, Tom's coming up to follow me. And it goes left. Okay, we just came up from that way. Now we're going this way. Julia's anyway. I believe we're crawling around in a stope. Looks like it opens up maybe after where she is right there. What do you see? A little bobbing wall. Baking me. We're twisting and turning through this whole little big mountain. I got my shorts on today because it's so hot out. You gotta put your knee pads on. That's where we just came from. We went, I believe it might be an or shoot or an or pass. And we're up to maybe another level here. And here are three MJB cans that don't look terribly old. But there's a bottle there. A full intact bottle. What's it say? Old Sunnybrook, Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. Wow. Louisville, Kentucky. That's cool. One pint. A pint of booze. Wow, cool. Let me get a picture of that. Alrighty, there are those cans in that whiskey bottle. That was pretty cool. Let's go this way. You see a bridge or something. A little bit of a muck sheet here. And a stope up above us. A couple stalls. I see a bridge. There was that shoot down below. Maybe that's what this was. Look at the vein up there. Wow. I don't know where that ladder was. I didn't see that down below, did we? I believe this is where this, I don't see. That's the shoot we found down below, but it doesn't look like it. If that's not a crazy looking shoot, huh? I don't believe that's a ventilation. I think that's a round shoot that they were using. Could be wrong though. But is there another level up higher here? How do they get up there? I wonder where this goes? Because you'd think it would come into that shoot where that, where we were at the end of the Lord Drift. But how do they get up above us to work? There weren't any ladders going up. Yeah, what's over this way? Okay, let's go over that way. Watch out. This is very light duty lagging here. It's only one by stop. Can you get up that way? You can go up this way. What's straight ahead of you? Just a little bit of a stoped out area. You probably want to go this way. Okay. The big stope up here where they've cleaned out a big area. Big stope that they cleaned out. Big area. Look at this old stuff here. Old lagging. The end of the line. So it ends shortly up there. It doesn't go much farther. Here's a Prince Albert can. Oh, you found another Prince Albert can. Oh, what a shot. Went right to me. What's up there? Mike, there's some rocks coming down. Okay, hold on. Let me get out of the way. Well, I'm up here as high as I can figure out how to get. I'm in this stope. This round shoot keeps going, but I don't know how they got any higher than this. Unless it's from the outside. I'm in this stope. I just sent that Prince Albert can down to Julie to look at. Once I was in the middle of this climb when I found it. Right in this slope here. And they've just cleaned this out. There's your mineral vein. It's some crazy, not very strong lagging that's holding all this stuff back. Julie's still down here. Unless this goes over this way. It's possible it goes over this way. Let me go over there and look. Okay, I've just come from that way. I'm up in the stope. It goes this way always. And it goes that way. You can see the mineral vein up here. And it goes behind me. There's, I believe, the beginning of that round shoot. Let's go make sure. Yup, here's the beginning of that shoot. Can you hear me down there? I'm at the top of that shoot. Do you hear that? Here Julie coming through the shoot. All right. Well that's the top of the mine. So back down I go. It's going to be a little treacherous getting down here. The stuff's going to want to slide. Here he comes. There you are. Sorry about the dust. Well, it's unavoidable. Oh boy, slide on down. Don't go that way. Don't come this way. No, you have to go behind you. And then I'll bring them out here. It's out of here with all this dust. Sorry about all that dust. That's okay. It's forgettable. Yeah, it's pretty rough up there getting around. Tom's wearing shorts today because it's really hot. It's 85 degrees out. We had a five mile hike to get here. We're just about back down to where that rope was. Dusty, dusty work. It's fun though. All right, better go catch up with him. Here she comes. It's kind of a tight little place to explore here. You can wear a helmet. Here's your rope. How many times do you whack your head? Three times. Three times in ten feet? Yeah. You may want to turn around another way you came up. I am. Hang on tight. It's just a funky little knot they got up here under an old stove with a bunch of fractured rock around it. Let's hope it hangs on for a few minutes here. Yeah, it's probably held for a hundred years. It's going to make it another few minutes. Good job. Here's this stuff again. Say goodbye to that. Look at the buck in the nails. Look at the galvanized ones. A little bit of everything in there. The big rubber hose. Probably an air hose the way it looks. This is still full. This is grease. All right, that's the way we explored earlier. This is the way out. And that's where we're going to get some fresh air. Fun mine. Yeah, very interesting. Somebody else can go find their whiskey bottle, the tobacco can, ceramic jug. What are those called? Flask? No. Crop. Crop, yeah. It's all right here. There's the entrance. It's not a real big mine. We like it though. One last bump for your road. Here we go. Out we go. Wow, fresh air is always fun at the end of an explorer. Ooh, hot though. Ooh. It's on a time. It's kind of cloudy dude. It almost sounds like it feels like it's going to rain. They use dynamite boxes for wedging on this cribbing area. So we got to make our way down. We're going to try to take a new way down and go look at, there's a loading facility at the bottom of this. I'll tell you this over here. There's a loading facility down there towards where we have to go. So we'll try and get down that way. There's the bottom of that chute, which was at the end of the upper level there where the railway was. And the lower or bin was down that way, which is what we're trying to get down to. I'm getting over near that lower bin from this mine. Here's a wire rope or cable. It's possible there was a ground tram or even an aerial tram. I'm not sure which to haul or from the top up there over to this structure here, whatever this is. It actually looks like a couple of little tram buckets there, homemade ones out of a barrel. So here's this platform. No doubt it was a tram because here is one of the homemade buckets. How cool is that? Would have had a pulley up here or two. I had a big boat going through this. Huh, there's a pulley on there too. That's kind of weird. There's another one down here. It looks like a road right here that we can take. There's another tram bucket down here too. Yeah, Julie found a piece of enamel ware. Oh yeah, there's one of the towers right there. It's down the buckets. Anyway, homemade tram buckets. This would have had a pulley up here also. And this was the tower it looks like.