 Good morning YouTube my next verse. Good morning. Tom and Julie here We're here at the Desert Museum cactus garden behind Julie there It's a beautifully manicured cactus garden No, not really. That's just now. That's just natural. We're we're going up the road Looking for a mine, of course But that is pretty cool little cactus garden. There's some barrel cacti yucca Choya Another stuff We're going this way We've been walking for an hour already. We should be coming up on something soon. We're still hiking along here We're hoping that around this next corner. We'll see something special It's the same old story like when you're mountain climbing just over this next ridge is going to be the peak And then about five more after that you're at the peak Okay, so we've been over a couple more curves and ridges And Julie says it's just about another mile That's what she says like that and then she'll it will go another mile. She said well, it looks like it's still about a mile So we go another mile. Well It's about a half mile You know, she says it's just around the corner here. All right. Well, this time she wasn't lying It's a big hole in the ground, that's for sure. Looks like it might be jammed up Oh, yeah, that's all jammed up. You're not going to go in that one It's like a pretty big head works though. Yeah, there was a hoist pad up there. Okay, not so fast. No, there's a crack in the air there Let's go down and see what that was Tom's checking it out. See if there's no other way in There I am above this hole You see a shaft which is now locked There's another big dark gray waste pile across the Revealing there. Here's where the hoist mounts were, equipment pads Hoist was probably all the way up here Would have been fun to see all these old places operating back in the day when it all the Hustle bustle of the miners Buckets of ore going up and down Here's more of the waste pile from that shaft over here. Well, here we are at an antique collar For an antique shaft We hiked way up the canyon here looking for an attic, but we didn't find it and That across the little Wash here was the first Shaft that we came to that was plugged. Look at this cool dike goes across here these rocks standing up on edge here You know that? There's a cliff down here kind of And then it goes across to where that other shaft went in And I'm sure it's the same formation that this is on and I'll get too close here But it's open No ladders Ancient timbering. I'm going to attempt to go down this shaft. This collar is in really rough shape So I'm not really using it as an anchor just kind of a backup anchor We got a boulder back here that we're wrapped around And so let's go down to see what happens Do we do the step top for a minute always hard getting on the rope, isn't it? Yes, it is little leap of faith there on and off No, it's not that it's just that Well, you have the anchors It is also a leap of faith, but that's not what I meant. Yeah Okay, good luck for it. Okay. Thank you Hopefully I'll return in one piece much back Watch your back Now you have one sticking out Piece of lumber you passed it now Some nails on this one if you come down. Okay. I look too bad. Okay. I'm working my way down this shaft This is looking back up it It's not super deep. Okay. This is what the bottom of the shaft looks like It's really quite small. So this takes a right the big Post here Stull if you like Only goes up here That stops right there This one goes down Well, this comes to a little ladder It just stops right here and back up Rough day of mine exploring That's it comes making his way back up. You just start to see his legs There he is Well, we're back over here now by this first shaft we came to look at that dyke that goes all the way across this Wash both these shafts are right on that Vertical outcropping And it comes right here too And then that's where this shaft is this collapsed one Put a mess Too bad. It would have been fun to get under there I'm guessing it went down and ran along this Underground in this ridge here, and they may even be connected underneath there who knows But not anymore not for me. Anyway, this is look at this waste pile Almost looks like there was a mill around here. Well, that looks like tailings down there Don't know much about this area or even when it was worked or Probably like the rest of the stuff in this area, you know late 1800s early 1900s Time to go home Once again after a day of mine exploring We can get by the Choya here So thanks for watching the video you guys We'll find something again next week Julie's a pretty good Mine hunter she'll find one for us So we'll see you next time