 Well, this is old-school exploring. We're driving around a known mine area Looking for a waste drop house. The road's pretty good, so that's helpful Little bit of snow on the mountains ahead of us Here we are at a little shaft and it's got water in it Look at that. Man, it looks pretty deep too doesn't it? The water does Alright, on to the next. We got some things way up the canyon here. I can see them So this is a little shaft Ladders falling off. I can see it in the bottom on there turns into an incline and goes into the mountain that way about 30 feet down Comes mine explorer slash hiker Julie the mine exploring this girl in the West So it looks like there are some nice workings up that way Very steep to get to and look where we'd have to go from between me and where they are We've got several obstacles We're gonna try going over this way and see what we can find. There's a couple more Workings over this way see this huge rock. That's about the size of a bus or bigger Look where it came off see the flats what up there this lighter Look at that thing how they would have made a thud wouldn't it? Wow, unless it was that smaller slab that came off there It looks more like that thing doesn't it? Well, we're still going here. We're in some very rugged terrain and We're trying to get over to this top of this waste ball over there Believe it or not. This is a burrow trail of some sort the burrows are crazy They can go places where Just about nobody else can We're climbing We've been all over this mountain Well, this is looking straight ahead. I Think we better climb out of here Okay rock climbing mine exploring time here comes Julie super windy right here She's a better climber than I am usually There is an open portal here and we're in see an old plastic bottle and a Old spray can comes right away to a junction in a little Well, this was a little fireplace for somebody. Let's take the right Looks like the veins In the back of the mine here Directly overhead See all the rocks are stacked vertically like that This looks like an old natural Fissure some antique ribbons in here You're so old that they've faded even inside with no light on them that water Lot of times when you see moisture like that in the mine you stay away from it because it's usually rat pee That looks like water Yeah, it's kind of wet in here. Isn't it? Yeah, they're following this big natural fissure here See look it up. There's a ladder that's down They were probably had it standing up working this spot. That's straight up Kind of an interesting vein. Oh, I see a winds coming up. I see the supports for a windlass Is that the end of the draft? Yes? Yes center Wonder if there's a lower level or this is definitely the supports for a Little lift of some sort whether or not it was a hand cranker It's hard to say and then there's a skip track here Skip track goes down above 25 30 feet maybe 30 feet And I can't tell if there's a level that let me cross this bridge and I'll see from the other side So it looks like there's possibly a bit of a drift down at the bottom of this Little area. Let's put this on the back burner for right now and we'll go explore the other Brants that we skipped. Okay. We're heading back the way we came from I like this I Like this natural fissure you don't see that too crazy often in mines and once again, I think this might be rhyolite This is a gold mine here. We are back to the Intersection I look there's an open stuff Or maybe just natural opening. I like this little fireplace area, too What is it tree sweet pink grapefruit fruit juice? Hmm, I haven't seen that before Probably not terribly old though. No, but it sounds good. You're in the mood for some grapefruit juice There's the honey pot well that didn't go away for Somebody's put handles on that feel can or a lip around the top of it. All right, let's try this little skip ladder Can you step on it? Yeah, it feels fairly sturdy. The last letter is not connected. I mean, it's just sitting there. Okay Okay, okay, so I'm at the bottom it goes this way a little bit. Let me go check it out. Okay Okay, you come off that ladder. It does go to the right here a little bit There's a fuel can Funny that there's vent line in here, too Once again, the vein is directly in the back of the mine center of the back You know, there's that mine down here. Oh, maybe they were trying to dry it out because it's wet And it only goes about maybe 50 feet total And then there's the end of it So that's the story from down below So I don't know what this is. It might be a cat It's you know, usually you see rabbits down here. This doesn't look like a rabbit Look at the teeth on that thing And then see it's got kind of a round head like a cat does It could be like a baby A baby mountain lion or something. I don't know Or a mine cat Okay, well This is looking back up the ladder. See Julie's light up there Your light And The skip ladder is pretty good the manly ladders come off There's a spider There's a looks like a fox Skull and jaw The bottom section the ladder is not attached to anything Nothing like climb 100 year old ladders They've used old um flooring Tongue and groove flooring for rungs. That's weird. Yeah Okay, I'll get out of your way. Okay. Okay. Last look at this vein here That little shaft was kind of neat A little drift on at the bottom Nothing major but interesting and then I believe that was a baby cat of some sort That skeleton that was down there It had kind of a big head for the body size. That's why I thought maybe it's a baby You know, baby's got kind of big bobble heads Okay, here we are back to the uh The entrance and We're going to go out and we're going to go down a little lower See if we can find something else There we are Yay back to the air Doobie doesn't like going downhill. She's pretty good at going uphill Down hill and not so much Very rugged up in this area Here she is You all right Watch that barrel cactus I ran into one once when I was hiking I was looking up at the scenery and I Ran into one a little bigger than that one. She just passed Stabby good There's our Jeep down there a lot of snow in the panamon still. All right. We got to make her wait on this slope somehow Look at the little purple flowers Aren't they pretty and there's some of y'all the ones mixed in there too I bet you if we talked julie into it you might make a bouquet out of these and action julie Thanks for watching the video today. 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