 Good morning Mine Exploring fans. I'm in Julie here. I don't know if you can see her or not. We are out in Death Valley National Park. Mine exploring of course. We're on a pretty good road right here. We've been out on this dirt road for about 15 miles and haven't had to put it in four-wheel drive yet. We should come busting out into a view overlooking Death Valley here soon. Wow look at that road. Long and straight. Well the road got a little tougher. Not crazy but a little hazy today in it. You can see. Wow on Julie it's a little hazy today which is unfortunate but that's looking south over the vast part of Death Valley. There's a road down there too. Look at that road winding around. I don't know it looks a little sketchy. You gotta watch out on these roads. If you get down there and can't get back up it could be in big trouble. So this is looking north through Death Valley. Crazy. Here are the ruins of three miners dwellings. They were dugouts. They were dug half into the hill to provide protection and weather to stay warmer and cooler depending on which season it was. So they're dug right into the hill. Half of them and then a rock wall. Here's an enamelware pot. I'm not going to use that anymore. This is inside one of these dugouts. Fairly spacious probably 16 by 24. There's an old vehicle frame. I couldn't tell you much about it except that it did have some wood along this rail here. It's wider in the back quite a bit. Here's a collapsed cabin. And a bed spring of course. Always a bed spring. The cabins just do not last out in these parts. Apparently this is a grave and buried here is James McKay. Don't know much about him. That's where he ended up. Rest in peace James. So over here is an interesting little shelter. There's a waste pile out in front of it. There's a road that goes up the hill behind it. Looks like a lot of small workings up there. Let's go take a look inside here. Here's this little structure. It's got rocks on the roof to keep the tin from blowing off of it. It looks like it's some pretty old corrugated steel that they're using for siding. Wood framing. And look what's behind it and at it. A portal. This is the inside. It's pretty sturdy still. It looks like it's been redone a couple times over the years. There were some windows in it one time. So it's probably about maybe 10 by 15. All right Julie let's go and see what the mine looks like. Some little cans and stuff. Here's a portal. Kind of handy to have your cabin right at the portal isn't it? Is there? Yeah. Looks pretty low. I'm going to be up and climbing under. Okay. Pretty low for quite a while there. It feels a lot of air and it's pretty low. Okay. So that's what I just came down through. A little bit low up in there. Comes to a little room here. Not real big. Got some support timbers here and there. Looks like some of this wants to slab off of here which would not be good at this point. Keeps going this way a little bit. Really dusty in here. I just came down through that little area. Down this drop it's about a six foot drop or seven foot drop. And a stoped area up above me. And a stall here. A couple of stalls. It kind of works its way across this ledge here. I don't know what happens over here. Well that's a mess. I don't know if I can come this far. Might as well go down there. Okay that's that mess that I just came down alongside all that timbering. It comes to a little skip track. And in here are the supports for the hoist or the windlass. And here are some real tracks that go this way. Some more car tracks. So let's follow this this way a little bit. There's part of a water pipe in the halfway here. Looks like a water line. Something goes down that way. Look at the timbers sitting here. Hey down the old skip track we go. Pretty low. A couple of stalls here. A wire or something. It's back breaking low. I can tell you that much. It gets pretty steep and the tracks look like they're falling apart. What's this for? Looks like an oar lock for a robot. Really a low stope. And it looks like it went down not too much further. I can see the bottom. There's a bunch of trash down there. It's pretty low for me to crawl down there and really slippery and pretty steep. So I'm going to call it good right here. We got a look at it anyway. This is looking back up. The track is kind of in right here or are they falling apart anyway. Kind of a crazy little mine. This track must just be for this stope here. There's a pillar you can see what they were taking. And I'm going to climb back up out of here again. Go find something else to do around here. I see somebody crawling over to us. I have an interesting little level down there. Is there? Yeah.