 Good morning YouTube hikers, Tom and Julie here We're at the Pine Creek Trailhead in the beautiful eastern Sierra Nevada, which are Up here. Oh, I can't see them right there There they are It's October 18th 2019. We're going through the Pine Creek pack station to get to our trail We're headed up towards Pine Lake today Mostly hiking today, although this is mine country, so you never know we may run across the mine We'll just have to wait and see The boy what a beautiful area. Look at the mountains here There they are That noisy here is the Pine Creek flowing. It's got a pretty good flow up here It's pretty crisp this morning. It's right at 32 degrees Little after nine o'clock What nice tree already Wow what a trophy day not a cloud in the sky No wind this is a pretty big old tree and What a gnarly specimen that is it's dead Pretty wild. We're still motoring up the trail. We started in an elevation of 73 20 I'm guessing we've already come up a few hundred feet Here's another little creek crossing Beautiful little creek Well, this is the view going the other way on the switchbacks here This is back the canyon that we came from This is looking down over the Owens Valley and then Across the Owens Valley the white mountains Don't know that you can see them very well. Weren't you guys just going the other way? I thought I just saw you going that way Good morning. Are you guys out outfitting for somebody? But I mean do you have people out here somewhere? The lichens in this rock is a cool shade of green Almost fluorescent It's a huge wall too. You don't really get a scale of it until you see Julie So we're still plugging away. We must have gone up I don't know 1200 feet or so on Well, I have two miles There's a nice series of waterfalls here Here we are deviating from the trail Because We spotted a mine And I must say it looks rather intriguing. It's like the lower working is formed shot The lower portal I should say But up higher and there are a couple. I don't think you can get up there. You might have to be a mountain goer You probably can't get up there, but they look cool from here, don't they? Well, here's the Portal I'm guessing to the brownstone mine got the dreaded foam on there There's another hole above me here. It's kind of straight up though Tempting to try but I don't know Well, we came across an awesome looking bench for looks like for four With A custom built fireplace And another chair over here But this is a easy chair Yeah, easy chair out of it. That's pretty cool, isn't it? Yeah So let me spend some time making that so trying to get up here to these things They're proven to be a little difficult So I don't think I'm gonna be able to do it Really looks interesting though up there. I want to blow it too I don't know exactly what I'm looking at here It smells like a hoist room because there's a lot of grease smell coming out of there I hear some strange noises coming from in there Into you Huh? Oh, here comes a wind colder and heck up here right now My fingertips almost frozen. I was climbing the side of that mountain Looks like some major workings we're going on here though, doesn't it? What a jumble that is You see these big slabs hanging on the side of the hill Some of these have come down and completely crushed out this Whatever it was here these timbers So that's a little unstable to say the least I'm up here at the top of a tram It's pretty collapsed But this is the rail the tram rail you see I hear Here's a bucket tram bucket Here's another one Let a different look at it Here's the rest of the Upper tram terminal This is the turnaround This is the operators station I'm assuming this is some kind of a A brake control or something Here's a Control Maybe a rheostat Or a signaling device That's a whole bank of some kind of something. I don't know what this is This is Oh, that's G. Yeah, look at the big G. So this is all electrical stuff here Looks like Look at the huge motor up there. Let me see if I can get up there I'm in a pretty solid room right here. This is all carved out of solid rock Look at all this stuff in here Jump up under this platform here. Look at the old cans Looks like a huge carbide can Here's The motor Looks like two motors And here's the big bull wheel See if I can reach you on the corner There's some water that can even do the back of this Here's the other way Use this side That's where the water is coming in Gear down here And a nice little valley The waterfall coming out of it Just about back to where we started Well, here we are back to the Pine Creek Trailhead where we started this little adventure We walked about Four and a half five and a half miles With a total of scent of about 1900 feet. It took us about four and a half hours and we Did try and visit the brownstone mine and we saw the tram and all that stuff But we couldn't get in the mine because they got it foamed off Anyway from Julie and myself we thank you for watching and We appreciate it and I hope you will watch us again on another adventure