 Well, I gotta say it is a very, very good morning today. We are still at the Sparks Lake. Last night was freezing cold. The mosquitoes also, they went away once it got, I would say under 55 degrees maybe or something like that. Anyways, an hour passed dark, they were gone. You guys know what this is. This is a little hair buzzer. Also, my battery's on low. But some people have been hating on my mullet and I'm gonna cut my mullet. And not because the people hate on my mullet, but, you know, I was trying to be very American and trying to go for the most American haircut possible, but I feel like I'm gonna end up on the front page of People of Walmart blog on Tumblr. You know what I'm saying? So, today's the day, we're gonna cut it off. We're in some change away from Bend, Oregon. We're in a place called Shanico, which is a ghost town, but people still live here. So that, by definition, would make it not a ghost town, I guess. For reference, I parked across the street from the ice cream place next to the hotel. And again, ghost towns don't really have ice cream parlors, but this one apparently does. This gold ghost town is kind of unique. It used to be the, I don't know, world's largest wool place. And just like most of the ghost towns in the United States, especially the West Coast, people originally came out here for gold and I'm guessing there wasn't a lot of gold out here otherwise it would have stuck around. Here's the Shanico wedding chapel. Not sure if people still use this or not. Left of the chapel, there's this building, really nice. In the distance, there's a ghost living at that house. He's outside watering his grass right now. And just around a corner, there's what looks to be like an old scrap yard. Those look like a couple cars from, I'd say, the 30s. Here's an old tractor from who knows when. Looks pretty cool. Cady corner to the hotel, there is the Shanico Museum, which is just open. It looks like it's always open. You can donate there and let's go on inside. It looks like there's a bunch of old vehicles in 1918 American La France fire truck. 1918 Chevrolet, 1919 Studebaker. Wow, these are to look like all Dick Tracy cars over here. 1925, I can't read it cause there's a bit, a lot of dust. Holy moly, 1923 Chevrolet panel. Looks like a carriage with some wheels on it. There's an old buggy over there. Some more old vehicles over here, which I can't really tell what they are. But man, this is pretty cool. This looks like some kind of, I don't know, limousine or something or maybe this was an old, what do you call those things with? Oh, I think it says ambulance right there. Yeah, I was thinking it was for coffins and things. Here's an old horse drawn carriage right here. Very good condition for how old it is. Can't believe that people traveled across country by these things. That is some kind of tanker carriage for something. I'm gonna guess oil cause there wasn't a lot of, you know, a lot of things back in the day that they could have wanted besides maybe water. But I really don't think that they would have gone all the way to transport water with something like that. I think it would have been like heating oil or cooking oil or something. Oh my God. A skateboard. What? No way. That's so funny. We found something cool. What? This is super cool. This is, man, that's awesome. That's an antique. It is. So we're in a place called Kent, which is also a quote unquote ghost town. Although this one isn't very spooky and there's a grain silo over here and there's a, you know, still people, you know, living in this little town. So it's not like, I don't know, it's not, what? This skateboard isn't that good. It's not like one of the most amazing ghost towns ever. I mean, it might be a kind of a cool place to take some pictures of some old buildings like this. But really there's nothing more than that. It's not like, you know, some, I don't know, you know what I'm saying. Oh, wow. This is interesting. It has that smell of old. Yeah, it's the moldy smell. You know, it's that like cardboard smell mixed with old wood. This is interesting. Oh, wow. This is a big old barn with just a bunch of old stuff in here. So here's somebody's photo album. They were definitely into, you know, cars and there's like a monster, what is that, a school bus? Monster truck. So yeah, it's interesting. I wonder if somebody just owned this place and just, you know, couldn't, you know, pass away and didn't have family or couldn't pay their taxes on her or something. I mean, who knows? Interesting, a little knife, a couple of dogs. Well, I've seen my fair share. So if you want a more in-depth video, go check out Josh's video because he went further inside the rabbit hole inside. And I guess there was like some interesting stuff. Just briefly, what was it? Yeah, they had a whole family that used to live there. I went to like, they had like, they had a door you can tell by the room, but like they had their coats on the coat rack. Everything was still like almost pristine condition. So you'll be able to see it when I upload it, but it's pretty interesting. I could not believe it. Interesting because it says parking for Warm Springs tribal members only. Although I am parked right there just on the side of the road just because we were driving by and we happened to notice how beautiful the river was, but also somebody made some little like chill hangout spot. Whoa, it looks like this is a fishing area as well. It's sketchy, man. Yeah. So it looks like they're probably fishing for, well, fish with these nets, but check out this thing down there. These guys totally made like a little pull out spot to get down to the, for a closer, you know, a little bit closer to the water to put the nets in. I'm guessing they're fishing, probably fishing for salmon. Yeah. There's a fish right here. We're just a little bit further up in the last spot. This is where the fish ladder is. We're gonna go check it out. It's the first time I've ever seen a fish ladder in my life. And this is so the fish can get upstream to spawn. So it looks like it's right here because those rapids over there, that's a lot of water right now. We would die if we went in there. Well, look, that's so much water, but something else I wanted to point out is like just like that last little, that little deck plateau thing with the, with the nets, there, look at all the plateaus over there. So that's the catch fish. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and then there's a couple more down there. So this is a fishing hole, the local Indian Reservation fishing hole. I've never seen anything like this before. What about you? Nah, but I want to fish. So next up on today's journeys is White River Falls State Park. Basically, there's a falls on the other side that I'll show you shortly. They diverted water through these massive tunnels into this holding tank from the holding tank down the hill, and that's where the electricity was produced. Now these went out of usage in 1963 because of the huge hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River. Just kind of put it out of business. But let's go have a peek first and check out one of the holding dams. All right, here we are. You can't really tell if it wasn't for this concrete wall here, but this, this was all water at one point. Float in from there. The falls are off in the distance. If I zoom in, you might be able to see a little bit of the mist coming up from there. And then down below where Josh is, that is where the powerhouse is. So here's part of the old tank. Just want to show you guys for reference what this looks like. Once you're down towards the bottom, you can see how the water flowed into the old power plant down here. As you can see, some people check it out. What's up, guys? So we'll go check that out in a second. But let me show you quick, real quick. What a spectacular view this is. I mean, it's a double waterfall. There's one up top and then there's this one here with this beautiful murky cloudy kind of water. I bet on a sunrise, this place would be amazing. Check this out. How insane is that? So we'll go check out the power plant after Captain Buzzkill gets up and goes home. This, my friends, is an old abandoned power plant, which, this is so cool. And it's great because there's not too much graffiti down here either. So you can actually tell kind of what is what and how things used to kind of go. Although graffiti is cool at some places, definitely I like this rustic look here. So I'm happy that it's not all spray painted up. But wow, this is awesome. So, yeah, here's the internals of an old turbine to produce electricity. And I'm sure if there's any engineers or electricians watching this video, you probably know what those parts are, we don't. I know those are probably some kind of gear system and that's some kind of like magnet with wires or whatever creates electricity. And then boom, you got lights. Boom, I like that. Here's the exterior shot of the building. Looks like they use local materials, these stones and then some kind of concrete or something. But it sure is cool. Yo, good find, Josh. Down the spillway, it says 1910. So I'm gonna take a wild guess and say, well, part of it was built in 1910.