 Good morning YouTube Mine Explorers. Tom and Julie here. See that road wall over there? We don't know where it goes but we're guessing it goes to a mine since we're in a known mining area. So let's go take that road and see where it goes. All right we're on the road. Here's the wall we were just looking at. Here's the road. Looks like it might be kind of hanging on the edge of things. I'm not even sure if it's passable but we're about to find out. I don't see any tracks on it. It looks like a road doesn't it? I thought for a second there was a burrow trail. No it looks like a road. It's a narrow road but it's a road. Wow that valley in the background. I hope we don't have to turn around anytime soon. It's gonna be a lot of jockey. Wow look at that old road across the ravine there. Looks like it goes over to a couple working suits. Looks like it turns into a trail at one point. Beautiful death valley in the background. Wow. There's some more stuff up there. There's another one back up canyon always. That one might be worth checking out. Here's the jeep way up here. We were gonna head up over to these on the side of the hill straight ahead and see what happens. Okay we're climbing up pretty good now. Final stretch before the mine. Okay I'm on top of this waste rock pile. It's decent size and behind me is an open portal it looks like. Although I believe this is not your traditional drift. This is going to be going through a series of open stoves and this probably was a silver lead mine too. This looks like it has a lot of mica in it and also some silver and lead ore. So let's gear up and go in here. Here we go inside the portal and I think we're gonna end up in a big open stove. I think this one gets visited very much doesn't. There's a nice foot wall on our right. Nice and smooth. Here we're already coming into some open stoves. Oh wow cool. Oh wow. Look at the pillars. That is so cool isn't it? There's a little stall over there. Watch where you're walking or this might go down. Careful now. Piece of cake for Dooley. This open stove might be a little bright for the camera. Those pillars are so neat and that's back the way we came from. Okay let's see what goes on up here. Slow. Still have this football on our right. Very steep vein. You can see how steep it is. It's probably 70 degrees. No assessment paint or ribbons. We've finally lost the paint guy. He's been everywhere except here. Now this was some old workings established in the late 1800s. This whole area was. What a clean drift. There even any rat poop in here? It goes on for a little ways doesn't it? I thought it would be stopped already. Here's a smooth hanging wall. Always fun to see. For me anyway. Looks like some quartz. There's a more traditional lead silver look. Can we go through the mountain? Yes we do. That's always fun to do isn't it? Let's see where we are. Oh that's right. What do you know? Look at the layers of all that stuff. Well we went through the mountain alright. We went over this way too. So we saw this road coming this way and this is where it goes. Alright let's go back through the mountain. It was such a short trip. We might as well keep the recorder going while we're going back. Yeah probably is. This door might have been for wind because I imagine the wind would breeze right through here. Yeah that looks like an old fuel can. Do you see any crystals that would fluoresce Julie? So they drove this tunnel right through the mountain. Yes it's a tunnel. Open on both ends. That's a fun little quick explore. And then back where we started. Alright well that was kind of fun. We better go find something else to put with that around here because that little thing won't be enough to satisfy your. Gonna make our way down this wash to the mine we just looked at from overhead. It's gonna be kind of windy so you're gonna get some wind noise. The wind is funneling right up this little wash. A bunch of old cans down here. That's looking behind us. There's an even supply of cans down this whole wash. Here's where the little road wall starts through the trail wall. Cans must have washed down from the camp which I believe was up above us here. All kinds of cans. This looks like a little pile of ore. It's on a piece of steel sheet. That's an old screen for something. Here's the interesting looking portal. Nicely timbered. Okay let's see what we have in here Julie. Okay it looks like it takes a right. Hard right. Looks like that's about it. There's a small room here. Not real big. This looks like it's poured in from outside somehow. That's just the end of that little drift right there. Back here kind of purple and red. Alright let's turn down this thing see what happens. It's cooler anyway. There's a nice wall you know. The rat's nest. Apparently from their markings there there's something here where these arrows are. There's burrow crap in here. Yeah that's gotta be pretty old. I don't think a burrow has squeezed in there lately. Oh the rats bringing in too don't they though? I wonder if the rats eat that. Remember we've seen them in rat's nest before. That's what that is. Imagine a rat running around with a big chunk of burrow crap. Okay well that was fun. We're back to the portal. We are gonna go a little further down canyon because there are a couple more mines on here that we spotted from higher up when we're in that tunnel. And since we're this close you might as well go check it out. Here's the start of the old mine road that can crawl out of the wash here. This doesn't appear that it was ever a road because the wall is right here and the edge of the rock is right here. It's only about four or five feet wide. Definitely not wide enough for a full road. But a nice burrow trail. Wow look at that scenery. Oh yeah there's a working right here. Oh it's a shaft. Shoot. I'm gonna bring my ropes. There's a shaft right there. The road keeps going that way for a little while. So many of these have been the adits. Oh here's. Maybe this is an adit. Pickers. All that danger. All that danger for nothing. All that danger for nothing. Right. Some good footwork. Look at this green rock. It's got some other colors in it too. Crazy looking place. Minimalized. Hey little buddy. How are you? You with the yellow feet huh? And a yellow tip on your tail. You a cute little guy? I can still see you. I'll leave you alone. This looks like another pile of ore that came out that never got hauled off. This probably has a fair amount of silver in it. A whole pile of it there waiting for you. Well we tried. We hiked down here and we couldn't get into this shaft because the ladders are pretty sharp. I'll take a peek down there just so you can kind of see what we're looking at here. I don't know if you can see down there or not. It probably goes down about 50, 60, 70 feet from what I can see from right here. These are the waste piles. Oh well. Those two waste piles at the top of the hill is where we were in the tunnel a while ago. Quite a ways up. Now we're down here. There's the shaft. There's Death Valley. There's not a little area. Isn't that neat? There's a really little ladder here. I don't think I trust that ladder. Just a little open cut. This weird thing we found is round. It's about a few inches long. It's got a round thing on this end too. It's got a round little thing on the bottom of it or something. Weird. What is it you guys? Another one's grandpa. I see him that old guy. Hey tame. All right we're just about back to our jeep.