 Action! Good morning YouTubers! Here we are with Julie and Kevin, our friend Kevin. We're going to go hiking today and we're going to go over looking for some mines. So stick around, we'll see what we find. Should be a great day. So we ran across this old artifact. It's a great, it has a pivot point on one side and on this side it's got an arm that would have been able to, it's really heavy. Would have been able to like, you know, flip it up or down. It's way too heavy for like a cooking thing. I don't know what it is. It's pretty big though, pretty cool. Maybe when you guys know what it is, let me know. So here we came across a little tent pad. You can see the outline of it. They would clear it out and raise it up just a tad to keep the water out for a wall tent. A little can dump over here and over by Kevin and Julie is a fire pit fireplace. And here's the road. See this is the old mine road right here and this would go back, this goes back down towards the, up towards the silver be, or the golden be up that way. Here we are on top of a pretty substantial waste rock pile. Some barrels and other parts and stuff down there, lumber. You can see in the distance down there, there were some tent sites, the rocks, the squares, and then there was an old cabin over that way. The cabin is flat now. Looking right below me there was a tank with some mill tailings around it. Up there is a chute, like a combination orbin chute. They probably fed the mill. There's a shaft that's gated up back that way. Kevin and Julie's still here. We're heading to another couple of mines. I see the waste piles over here to our left. Tom's going to go investigate first. We found a hole in the wall in the mountain. Here comes the mine explorer. Here comes Kevin the mine explorer. Is this the first mine you've been in? Yes. Okay, so we're heading into the mine. You can see where they've seen Kevin these flat spots over here, like this wall. This is where the mineral vein was along this wall. That's what they call a fissure, or the contact zone, where the minerals pushed up along this wall. That's what they've taken out. They've stripped right off that wall. You'll see that a lot in mines. You'll see the smooth wall. Here are some more timber sets straight ahead. They put that in some places that aren't quite stable. Yeah. It's getting warm, isn't it? This is a little crosscut, so they follow the vein over this way. Usually it's right up. That's okay. I know they do scare you. That's okay though. They won't get you. They won't get you. Did he go this way? Well, then he was going to see him again. It's okay. He won't get you. You can just stand up. Don't be scared. Yeah, a lot of that sometimes is tortoise, believe it or not. Those short squat ones are tortoise crap. Well, it's got an end. Maybe it goes up. It's got an end sooner or later. You knew it wouldn't get me real big ones. He went right through us. He actually hit my hand. Yeah. That's the end of it. So this is what they call the face of the mine. Now this is the face of the mine. That's as far as they went. He's done the explorers coming back out. Crawling. Get out of here, better than I am. But then I'm old. On my end, I got her. Yeah, just a second. And when I go to stand up. That's what's hard when you have. We need to go to stand up. There you go. There are the mine explorers. Okay, we're in another mine here. There's a skip track and a bridge. Julie just crossed the bridge. There are a couple little timber sets here. And an old, old skip track. And an old bridge. The right side of the bridge is blown out. But Julie made it. That doesn't mean I can make it. This is looking down the skip ladder. They wouldn't get on there later. Okay, Kevin, Julie and I are exploring this little mine. It's not going to be a huge one. Look at the natural timbers they use. You know, it's not come out. It's not milled lumber. Boy, that's a little guy, isn't it? Look at the old can. Vines. Okay, move aside a little bit. Oh, that's low in there. There's the face. I'm going to cross the bridge. So this is the top of the ladder for the skip track. It's got some steel brackets hooks for the ladder top that hook onto this 4x4 right here. And this is looking down at probably 25 feet. I can't tell if there's a level down there. All right, Julie said she wants to be the first one down this skip ladder. I'm not exactly sure why, but that's what she said. Because I can barely fit. That next one looks a little... Yeah, watch out. That one is coming off, kind of. Just hang on to something. Watch out for rocks. Do a little gardening on the way down. Something doesn't fall on your retinas. Give your camera in your pocket. Your light. Can you turn your light up? Did you only go twice? Hold on a second, will you? Did your light only go twice? There you go. These are held together by like old wire hangers. Is there a little drift? It's like a whole bunch of webs just covering this whole bottom. Okay, Julie's nearing the bottom of the shaft. She's clearing some spider webs. Big, big spider. Trancella? I don't know, but it was big. You just wrecked his home. That's why he's mad at you. Well, he's gonna have problems too. It's like the rest of us. Does it look like there's a level? Yeah, it goes off that way. Okay. All right, Julie's coming back up the ladder after the big explorer down there went ahead of that nice little drift. There she comes. Is that down there? Yeah, hot. Spidey? I'm a little warm too. All right, good job, Julie Explorer. Well, you guys, we hope you enjoyed the video. It was fun going out with Kevin and Julie, of course, and with beautiful Pinto Mountain and the Pinto Basin behind us. We thank you for watching the video and we'll see you in our next adventure. See ya. Bye.