 Good morning mine explorers Julie and Tom here. We're going right into the portal without any further delay See what we have here There's a neat little wall right here There are some nice blue rocks outside of the mine on a waste pile So I'm guessing this mine might have some colorful mineral veins, which is always nice We like that There's a nice looking vein what we have here though. I'm not very tall about it or a drift There's a little vein running right through the top of this thing top of the back The center of the back A little hanging wall on the right a few pieces of timber with some metal brackets on it Was it pipe rail? Almost looks like that was for a pipe rail The cross ties There are some more cross ties or something There's been some surveying down in here apparently Coming up to some timbering There's this vein kind of interesting to see how that forms there with this fractured stuff behind it and then the transition to this smooth-faced hanging wall Here's some timbering There's a little cross cut to the left only about 15 feet long Some lagging on the right here And then the face This is a road that we're heading up on the mountain. It's a little deceiving, but it's pretty steep pretty rocky Looks like fun though, so let's go check it out Here's an old steel head frame over a deep shaft Really is at the end of a pretty big waste pile It's just to be a pretty big mine Looks like an added over there or two Some old foundations from buildings and Equipment mounts and what have you Here's the classic looking waste pile A mine dump if you like A little breezy up here today We parked the Jeep Another nice road wall here Comes really This road ends right here pretty much that we were driving on it comes to an old another old wall though that Has a very steep grade to it And does not look like it was wide enough Before a real road, so it's probably a burrow trail I see some lumber down there. Let's go see what that's all about So this road that we were following our trail looks like it had a trestle on it or a bridge Maybe for a railway And I see some pipes coming out of the ground over there, so let's go see what's happening there So at the end of this little real line is a shaft There was a ladder at one time here The ladder's not there now we could rope into there. There's a portal looks open across the way there and There's a line anchored a cable anchored into the rock there I'm guessing that it was a way to haul ore from that Added over that way up the hill and then They would have hauled up this little railway. There had to be a little railway here the way that bridge was They went up this way And right up to the top of the mountain They probably had a Cable pulling it all the way up there and had tracks on there Because it's too steep. It's too narrow and too steep for a road So I guess for now we can go over and look at that open portal over that way. Okay, this is entering the portal Looks like it intersects the shaft right over here. There are several stalls right here and then As you can see right ahead of me is a shaft I'll climb over these stalls and go take a peek. This is looking down into this stove It's open to the daylight behind me The surface road's getting over off. This what's over the cliff here Tom's going down first You check out the shaft. Let's take the fast way and the ladder's pretty old Yeah, we're roped in Okay, this is looking back up the ladder. It goes vertical here after The spine standing it goes down quite a ways So I guess I've gone this far. I gotta keep going. It looks like there's some debris in the shaft. I pray there could be a problem, but Let's keep going see what happens. So this is what you see when you get back here That's looking back at the ladder. I just came off of and then shaft. It's a vertical shaft There's a bit of a little level here Here's the vein directly above me There's an area that's been opened up here. This is looking down below me. I see a sheet down there steel sheet and some more ladders it looks like But it's pretty jammed up and It's not really a level So this is going back towards the shaft now The shaft looked like it was jammed up below me pretty good That's the bottom of the shaft, but as you can see that's Pretty well clogged up So I guess it's back up we go. This is looking up. Here comes Tom on the way back up This ladder is terrible on one of the worst ladders he's ever been on Good thing he's roped in It's tied together with string down there. Oh boy where it goes vertical And the rungs are broken A lot of them But it's getting me up. I guess Yeah, there's a big rock right there. Yeah, it's gonna ready to let loose. There goes Yeah, I couldn't reach down and get it No, I would have Probably be falling down there Back to air And light