 Here we are on the moon. It looks like the moon doesn't it? The moon jeep. Yeah, that's the moon out there. All right, Tom's gonna crawl in and check it out. See if it opens up a little bit. Everything's all eroded. We're crawling our way into this portal. Literally crawling. Got about 30 feet to go and it hopefully opens up. Tom, of course, is gonna check it out first. Here comes Julie. She's a dedicated mine explorer. Crawling on her belly like a snake. All right, we'll let her catch up for a second. This is a little alcove to the left. Had a Julie there. We got to a place we could stand up, finally, although we're gonna have to hunch over again to go further on. But this is just a short little, go ahead. Already looked in here. It's kind of an interesting little vein. There's some nice colors and a bit of a stope up there. And some white calcite or something. All right, let's go down this way. We've got to bend over a little bit. That's pretty low. Here's a big chute. Can't see up very far. Somebody made a bird in here. Looks like a pigeon. I don't think there are any pigeons right here, though. Here's a low-temperary. Boy, look at the water level. This floods. This is all dried mud. And you can see the water level about a foot and a half up the rib. I don't know what that does. This is the lesser used part of this mine. Explored part, I should say. The small stope. Now go ahead. Well, one of the ventilation hangers. Get another footprint in here. Look at all the dried mud. There's a huge waste pile outside of this thing. So if it's not collapsed, it goes somewhere. Still some air blowing through here. All the track ties are here. Lots of track ties and other short pieces of timber. Hopefully that's not the end, all right. Hopefully it turns to the right. Turning. Turning. Oh, here's a big stope. There's some track over that way. Oh, there's nice air blowing through here. Yeah, it's a beautiful vein in that. That's probably about a 20-foot-tall stope. Well, let's see this. So this is the main intersection here. So this is the way we were going that way. This is left as we're coming in. It's got track, although that looks like the main line because the track curves that way, doesn't it? You want to take this right first? Okay, right-hand rule. Here's a ladder. Boy, this twist's all around in here, doesn't it? That's kind of the backside of that stope we were just looking at, the 20-foot-tall one. This meanders over this way. Do you want to go back and stay in the first right that we took that way, so not take a left? Go ahead, I'll follow you. Already an interesting little mine in that. Oh, here's some, this shaft, huh? Watch it. So there's a lower level. This is the end of this right here. Yeah, it definitely looks like there's another level down there, doesn't it? The water pipes and airlines both go down in there. Is this a meander over here? Dairy steppanese? No, that's not a ladder system. So that's something to consider for the future that shaft going down there. You know, let's take another right. Well, look at that vein there. Beautiful. This lagging up here, a crib holding a bunch of waste rock. Julie's looking up the ladder, we just looked up a minute ago. Tracks to go this way. Well, I'm glad we crawled in there already. Here's some blue, beautiful minerals in here. Blue pocket to the right that you've excavated. Track curves hard to the left. That's it, there's the face of this drift. This stuff has the traditional lead silver look to it. Which a lot of the mines around here are lead silver. This is up into a small stove. All right, let's go see some more of this old mine. Okay, we're back to this good sized stove. We're going to take a right. That would have been straight coming in. Here's a chute up into a stove. Kind of a stumbly mine with all this timber on the ground. In rocks. No, yeah, in rocks. I don't know where all this small timbering is going to go. It's like splintered. So here we, this one ends at a big chute. It's jammed solid, little piece of a ladder there. Just the one of the stringers. Boy, that's got a lot of weight on it up there, doesn't it? Wow, the lagging on the back of the mine is packed solid. Although there are some pretty heavy timbers under here. Holding it up. Wow. There's a load count right here. Oh yeah. And then some load counts. Some load counts. Jack Moss, 1930 something. Does that say 19, it looks like 1937. Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid. There's something here too. I don't know, is that a face? Interesting. It's very heavily timbered with lagging and bracing on the back of the mine. I think there was a big stope above us and a lot of things have fallen out of it. Unloaded this up. Here's a left. Oh boy. That goes as far as I can see. Yes. This is Pitcher, Oklahoma, something, Oklahoma. Dorothy and Bill. Dorothy and Bill. Well, let's keep going straight here. Here's something that maybe had gone down at one time there that doesn't know. How'd you get behind me? You sneaker? New Mexico. I've never heard of it, if it's a place. And I even lived there. Jack, didn't we see that guy's name before? Jack Moss. Ogden, 45. Scared myself, did a red shoot. Tracks are still here. Yeah, you can go ahead of me if you want. Looks like it keeps going a little ways. Interesting mine, isn't it? Yeah. It's got a few modern, well, I say modern, like 70s, maybe, cans and bottles, but not really a lot more modern than that. Another intersection. It keeps going that way quite a ways. Here's a, I don't know what that does. Had tracking it. Let's keep going this way, even where we are now, right? Here's a contact zone with the hanging one on the right. Looks like Gullies put the brakes on. The easy means of face of the draft. Yeah, that's that. The vein apparently pinched down to, not enough to make it worth it. All right, back to, we have a right we can take. Okay, this is the spot where we could take a right. Now we skipped through this big, smooth spot. Sorry if I'm wobbling around like a drunk sailor. Julie said, oh boy, you know what that means, ladders or something scary. Oh boy, is that right? There's a short spot to the left that's been taken. One beer overhead here. Well, let's see what she's all boing about. I've got a safety rail up here. Keep you from going over there all at once. I don't look like it goes down terribly far. It's kind of neat to be on this angle day though, isn't it? Yeah, I like this. You got it too. You've been in all kinds of mines there like this. Very interesting. Last short stalls. Huge lagging area over to our left here. Yeah, all of them are. One, two, three, four, five stalls broken. Splintered six. What's it take to compress a stall like that? Yeah. Split or buckled all together. Yeah, you probably don't want to go down there. I don't see any track, so I don't know if sure it's a level. Although there must have been a way that they worked it down. I don't see any way to lift it out of here, so they must have worked it down lower somehow. There were some workings down below this, but we couldn't get out of them. Okay, moving past the big down slope, downward sloping slope to that fast. Here's an interesting area. Yeah, this is kind of a crumbly area, isn't it? Is that every crumbly? Oh boy, this is buckling too, isn't it? It's really the old boy. Yeah, this is breaking through here. These miners are some smokers, right? They must have seen a hundred cigarette packs. No tins, but packs, soft packs. This probably isn't too much bigger because we've already seen a fair amount in the waste pile. It was big, but not like, you know, biggest we've ever seen. Hmm, I bet you there's a lower level here. Well, somehow they dropped the stuff from that slope down and came out somewhere lower. There was a huge waste pile a little lower, but we couldn't find an opening. I think it had been purposely filled somehow or blown or bulldozed. That's a little different colored material than we've been seeing, although look at this vein. Wow, that's nice. I love seeing veins like this. That's why we come in here. That's why the miners came in the first place was to check out these veins, all the different ores or minerals I should say. Let us shoot 1938, a date on the wall, unless it's a distance. We're probably about that far in here, I would guess. What's his track over there? I mean, the old stabbing track. I think they did. Yeah, there's some gobbling. Yeah, that's backfill, all right. Or it's the face. I think it's both. I think it's, I should've been a geologist. So this was some gobbling here and backfill and the face. You can see that that's the end of the draft right there. It's neat mine, though. It's the best thing we've seen today. We're just coming from that way at the end of the draft. This looks like it was a man-way. Nicely timbered. Stung, good shape, ladders are gone. So there's possibly an upper and lower level here. Well, that's a vertical vein here, isn't it? This slab on my left is just about straight up and down. And this, I forget what this was. Oh yeah. I see a piece of a ladder down there. It probably fell in from here. Buckled my step here. Oh yeah, there's your ladder going up. This is in pretty rough shape right here with these buckled timbers. But that ladder's pretty tempting, isn't it? Hmm. Well, that's a long ways up there, too. First one's on solid. Well, I know it's here. It's possible that's an emergency exit, too. But it does look like it goes a long ways. We're heading out now again. Cool little mine. Yeah, this big hanging wall on our left here is closing the gap, isn't it? These stalls about every other one of them are failing. I'd like to go down there. Part of me would like to go down there and part of me says it's pretty nice right where I'm standing. I'd like to see some track down there on 1918 and 1926. 1918, that was during World War I, 104 years ago. Roughly. Probably not. Those two mill levels, and... Two mill what? Level, and the arrow pointing this way. Oh, that's old too, isn't it? Mm-hmm. Two mill level and... Hmm. So this goes all the way down to the mill. And work your way down. It doesn't look like you can walk down there because it's way too steep for that. There's a couple of ledges, but unless you feel like sliding between the ledges, hmm, interesting. I wonder if that's correct that that would come out down to the mill. That'd be a fun trip because we're quite a ways up the mountain from the mill. We're, uh, we're at least a couple hundred feet above the mill. Look at these pick marks. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, lots of pick marks. Okay, we're back to this intersection. We came from this way. That's where those cool stoves were on the angle. I think we went that way and we came originally from this way. All right, Tom's making his way up this ladder. So far it's holding fast. I'm trying not to be right alone. It doesn't look like there's anything to fall on you, although hold on a second here. I see trouble ahead. Okay. Oh yeah. What? It's all jammed up. I can't go up here. Okay, come on down. It's all collapsed, Jim. Okay. So I'm part way up this ladder and this is what I see up above me. Total collapse. I shouldn't even be here. If one of those boards lets loose, it's gonna hit me right in the forehead. And they're about 30 feet above me. So let's get out of here. Not that it's smart to me. I'm only a little ways up here. Ouch. The same thing got me again. Okay, here's Frenchy 37. Preacher Matt. W.E. Johnson. Jack Mosh, 1939. I don't look down so I don't fall in the hole. Chicago SS. This one I can't read. Something. Wilson. Maybe be able to read it in the video of the laser. Okay, this is the only spot we've skipped so far. Is this right? Would have been a left coming in. Let's check it out. Oh, and now we're a dull moment around here, is there? Oh boy, back to the, back to the stove. Back to the angled stove. And up this way too, yeah. And then this chute. Pretty nifty. Smells like sulfur back here. There's some explosives wrap. Oh no, that's a canvas. I take it back. There's some explosives wrap. Very sulfur-y. Yeah, something's been pooping back here. Why do animals come so far in a mine when it's so dark? Something definitely marked its territory there, didn't it? Mm-hmm. This feels like dead air back here too. Now let's see what we got. Do as you can creep down. Yeah, you can tell it's a little more humid. Oh yeah, it's got mud back in here. Where'd the water come from back here? Oh, it's getting hot. It's funny when you're in mines like this, you find that you go through zones. It seems like this might be an older section of the mine than that. It's been flooded too. There, now it's not so hot again. Moving on below. Right over down in my box. Well, it looks like we persevered. Here's the face of this trip. We made it to the whole main level. Well, that vein almost goes in a circle there. All right, let's go home. I'll buy you a beer again. I always owe Julie a beer at the end of the day for some reason or another. Yeah, you earned it. I'll buy you a pub beer or a regular course. That's all I got. Pub beer is from 10 barrels growing up in Central Oregon. It's a pretty good beer. What do you want? All right, pub it is. All right, guys, well, thanks for watching the video. We appreciate it. This was a fun little mine. We do have more options here. There's definitely a lower part of it, which would require a little rope work. Whoops. And probably an upper part too. Looks like a shoot mouth. So anyway, thanks again. And we will see you on the next adventure. Bomber from 1943. That's World War II. We have World War I and II represented.