Fascinating mining camp find! One can only but imagine the struggle to bring some of those bigger machinery components with only wagons to haul them in. If one could reclaim this area and build it back up as a remote mountain range camp, you could use a bulldozer to clean up the worst of it, while improving AND maintaining the trail with the dozer. Bringing cargo container cabins in would be nice, but if not by trailer, then by cargo air drop with a helicopter. Basically one only needs clean water to survive on up there, then a few properly dug and contained outhouses. Heat can be wood stoves, but also supplimented by solar panels for added energy sources and lighting. I could see installing a proper perimeter fence of about 15 to 20 feet in height to keep out hostile wildlife while allowing for deep snow depths. But the greenry around there means one could in essence grow gardens, even if raised bed ones including with greenhouses (Alaskan wilderness style).
@cwp1alpha or just leave it, doing that would cause alot damage to the area.it would take alot to fix that road as you only seen 1/16 of the trail.....it's very bad.
This is some great insightful work here, I agree. I like that I’m not thinking alone here. I have spent the better part of a day wondering how habitable this area could truly be amongst the triumph of will.. It would require a few summers non stop work and some headaches but this is doable. I also came to the conclusion that logistics and winter would be the only trying time truly, outside of being uncomfortable with a few natural events summer would bring and upkeep headaches as well as maintenance of equipment. Water looks viable in a area I didn’t catch on camera and it is exactly as you described.. I always keep an eye out for something like this. Eventually we will do it together as a channel, that’s a promise. Thank you for sharing love pondering this stuff as much as the adventures we share. I hope to hear from you on the next one, Thank you👍👍👋 until next time friend.
I grew up in the Biggest producing gold mining town of its time. Started in the late 1800s Bralorne BC Canada. There are people still living there as logging started, but there isn't much there now. No bank, or police, the people who live there love the quiet. When I grew up there is was on the tail end of production. 1955 to 1971 when the mine closed. It was devastating to the town, watching your friends all moving away. My mom and dad were one of the last to leave. I would walk through town and see open doors, bikes and stuff just left behind. It was a strange feeling at the age of 15 having to move from the only town you knew. Its 2024 and we still have reunions every year. We are all getting older but for a lot of us still feel displaced.
The scenic views were amazing and the history of the place was really great, but the fact that one of them always has a weapon in hand definitely said something about the potential for trouble. I realize it's most likely the wildlife variety, but it does always make me nervous when my guide needs to be armed and ready. Great trip though. Glad it all went well. 😀
100 + years ago there were no chain saws , those log buildings were hewed, and corners notched all with axes- square bit, broad, and adze. They did have saws of various uses and types. Most all work was done by hand tools, oxen, mules, horses, and steam. It would be good to know what minerals they were mining.
A 3 ft wide vein of quartz containing gold and silver. Trace of copper. This in mentioned at footage of old ball crusher. you are absolutely correct in everything you explained. Thank you 👍👋👋
The most beautiful place I've ever seen. I actually teared up seeing this. I wish life was still like this. The way the world is now, wow. You're very lucky to be able to see this place in person. I wish you would've gone inside the old cabins and taken a look.. don't get to see that kind of craftsmanship in today's time. Thank you for sharing
Gorgeous country. If you happen to live in an area where you step outside and see majestic mountains, please don't take it for granted. I have wanted to live out west for most of my adult life, but my wife doesn't want to move until her parents go to glory. I just hope that when that happens I'm not too old.
I understand you completely..There’s never a perfect time. Whenever I made choices in particular that have changed my life or my “normal” I have come to realize the stars never align like we hope. Just jump, when you have that feeling. the world seems to favor bold decisions even if turmoil follows. As long as you take what’s yours and continue working towards your goals or dreams it’s hard for evil or bad energy to stop that. I hope you find your peace, I’m rooting for you. Truly. Thanks for sharing, hope today finds you well👍👍👋
Beautiful. Imagine the resourcefulness and skills of the Men who made that town. Must be really hard to build a log cabin from scratch. Respect to those people. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿
You guys have enough good material right there to build a small cabin. How often does anyone go up that trail? It's not grown over, somebody must be using it. What a beautiful spot, just gorgeous. That pollution you spoke of, looks like rust in the water. The old cabins are picturesque, but the old machinery is a scar on the land.
Exceptional video I really enjoyed that view I grew up in Leadville Colorado and it’s the same era of mining operations at 10.152 ft elevation , so beautiful at that elevation! Great job fellas 👍
Damn it! I have been planning and saving to go investigate this area for 3 years...no need to now, i done seen it on youtube....thanks fella"s. Guess i will go to Hooters instead
Ha! Found it on google maps. Beautiful location. Thank you for sharing. My dad would find these kinds of places while hunting all the time. I remember exploring a few. Your secret is safe with me ❤
10:54 is a horse drawn scoop, missing the wooden handles, used to dig basement, ponds, leveling ground, whatever. Could be used as a stone boat. I used to have one.
Nice video! Please show more detail of each and every building, and each and every piece of equipment. I would have loved to see the inside of every building. If you're going to take the trouble to travel out that far, show us *everything* in every detail please!
This is fascinating! Thanks for taking us along. 🙏🏽💝✨👍🏽🌻 As a mother of a son who also likes to explore and hike to off the beaten path places, I’m so happy to see you staying safe with your knowledge of the cave structure. 🙏🏽✨💝💯
That’s awesome , glad to hear it.! Everyone needs to get out and get lost for time to time.. Thank you for joining us on the the trail, happy to share👍👍👋
Wow! Can you imagine hauling all that iron equipment, particularly that huge round tank with the rivets, up that mountain! As a rockhound, my imagination wonders what kinds of cool rocks could be found in those tailings and surrounding area.
Thank you for joining👍👋 The tailings had a good amount of quartz the 3’ft wide vein contained gold and silver running perpendicular. The whole operation we explored was centered around quartz bearing gold and silver!
APA has some really cool mines all around it. The Bear Gulch Mine that was on the Fox series is one drainage over. People mistakenly refer to the district as the Bear Gulch District but the real name is the Tidal Wave District.
Wow! You find the best!! Your video quality is wonderful, nice drone footage, too. I am new to your channel and just love it! Thank you for posting and sharing your great work!
Hey brother, I understand keeping mum about location etc. I'm too bloody old to poke around fallen buildings already knowing what's inside. I doubt I'd ever get up to such a place even though I have my old Willys Wagon and years (decades) of off road and on road experience. But as you speak of history and ask me to imagine it... well, I can't really since it's just a random site in the trees of Montana somewhere and nothing more. I've worked various oil fields from Utah, Montana, N. Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas... mining is work. Hard, thankless, dangerous and deadly work. Cold, hot, lonely work, months, years away from family and friends and always looking for better pay. Friend of mine had a great grandfather named Plummer who was sheriff in Bannack MT who got himself hung for trying out a scheme on the wrong side of the law. Thing is, everyone knows this history and for my friend especially, THIS place is significant and meaningful. Enough so, it's a preserved site. Many other places are like that for a lot of us. My great grandpa was a blacksmith and sheriff in Dodge City Kansas in the 1870's and '80's. He decked Wyatt Erp once for not removing his gun in a saloon. But Peter Walter Beamer and Erp became friends after that. And after working on a big windfarm project a few years ago there, the town has become all the more special to me. Even found my gr grandma's boarding house (near Applebees!) So... not telling you what to do. Just pointing out the mining camps are all documented and findable via state sources. A few of us old timers love the scenery and history and KNOW it wasn't really very romantic then or now. But knowing the history a bit more activated the only time machine outside of music and memories I know of. Meanwhile, please stay safe, stay armed, and God bless... oh, and watch out for Bigfoot! 😂
It’s my passion and a honor to keep it alive. History is only one generation away from disappearing. Happy to bring you down memory lane and to share this. It’s important we don’t lose anything for my children as well… Thank you sir, precious experience to share always safe and will do! Bigfoot hasn’t given himself up but I will keep an eye out for you! 👍👍
That piece of equipment is a Slip. It was pulled by horses and had wood hands to control digging a small bite of soil or rock. It would slide at a low angle until full. Horses or mules would drag it to the dump site. The handles would then be lifted so as to dig at a sharp enough angle so as cause the cutting edge to tip the slip over and dump the load. It is pretty easy to get tossed and hurt. I have used them behind tractors as well.
It would be great to see what this looked liked when people lived there! Wow, what a beautiful spot and so many buildings! I wonder how long ago it was abandoned? Thanks for the tour. (from Sandi)
it would really be something, can’t imagine.. Would have been extremely isolated and remote given the day and age of the site..What a time.. Happy to share, thank you for coming along👍👍👋
Wow another beautiful mountain mine the scenery there is stunning. I know I say it every time I comment on your videos what a great video be safe and keep the videos coming.
Thank you Charles, always a pleasure to hear from you.. The channel isn’t the same without your comments and insight thanks for being here since day one!! Happy to share buddy, look forward to bringing the next adventure right to ya! Thank you! -Always am.
welcome, Thank you for the kind words! Pleasure sharing this on-going adventure and always will. Appreciate the subscribe, goes along way and helps our expedition reach new sites and unique locations along with the lost history that we share along the way! Hope today’s treating you well and look forward to hearing from you on the next one. Awesome!👍👍👋
Thank you for sharing these awe inspiring vistas! Though I personally would have enjoyed the silence of the mountain and the bubbling stream and breeze to canned noise. Again, thank you so much for sharing this small slice of God's many wonders.
really fascinating .......good for the human spirit to be in remote abandoned places like this,,,,,surrounded by deep Nature wilderness and nostalgic vibes of long ago human human dreams,,,,,,,, the junk piles aren't pretty, but a wistful haunting feeling still hangs in the atmosphere of such places which is good to feel for reasons hard to define, but linked to something deep in our emotions............. thanks for sharing,,,!!
The lake unfortunately looked to be bad due to the cyanide leeching during the gold extraction process..I did not see a single fish tooling around the lake, no kidding..👍 I wish!
Nice video and ride. Would have really been something seeing that entire operation set up. If that was a wheel I saw near the front of that boiler, it was probably an early wood burning, steam driven tractor. Probably cleared a trail for that tractor to haul that equipment up there. Then served as a power unit with belts from an idler wheel. I wouldn't assume any ponds near mines are good water, tho.
Incredible work here, I agree just precious. It’s great to hear this, a few of your insights I haven’t even considered while still researching this explore I know the community appreciates different perspectives and insights as well. Sometimes people like yourself make the adventure even better! Steam driven tractor..man that would be awesome to see!! Hmmm… Thank you for sharing! Hope to hear from you next time and that todays treating you well.👍👋👋 Thank you.
Firstly, kudos to the driver. Most would have turned back long before. What a killer find! I can only imagine being there during the winters. A bit of snow I'm sure. Definitely, always carry a gun. I live in rural Oregon and sometimes surprising a bear or big cat is as dangerous as a hungry or overprotective mother animal. Great location. I do lot of the same type of exploring. Grateful I found your channel. Haven't gone through what other content you post. But this one is a good one for sure. Keep it up, maybe we will meet on a scout. I would recognize the jeep for sure. Be safe, don't destroy, carry out and have fun.
Thank you for the thoughtful words, appreciate them. Glad to have you with us. My pleasure sharing the passion friend. Thank you, Thank you. Hope to see you on the trail! 👍👋👋
This reminds me of the old mining cabins I found dotting the hills above Tin Cup and Pitkin, Colorado while elk hunting. The wheelbarrow looking thing looks a lot like the buckets from a dredge. I would assume it was used in a similar manner, maybe dragging material out of the mine.
I for one love the fact you don't share your locations. Finding them is half the fun. Many others might not tell you the location but probably I 80% of the time I can figure it out just by studying the backdrop, signs, etc. Cant tell you how many I have marked on my map due to that. Keep doing what your doing. And no, Im not giving away the ones I found. Its called an adventure for a reason.
Well, all i can say is that it is a beautiful place to have a nice sit down and pop up a tent and make a nice camp fire and put up a pot of coffee and beans 😁😁 and im am disappointed that you didnt collect a good size rock from the mine. I saw some nice pieces and would be a perfect souvenir of this unique and beautiful location.
When I did my colorado outward bound course in the 70’s, we hiked up to what I believe was the tomboy mine above telluride and bridal veil falls. There were still many buildings standing then we spent the night in the cook shack which still had the old stove which we fired up. Unfortunately I could only find one photo of that site. On that trip we had also spent the night in one abandoned cabin. We also then hiked over the 13,000 foot pass that lead the way down to the camp ground at camp bird.
That’s an Awesome Adventure, It’s bittersweet you found one remaining photo from the expedition..I bet it brings great memories at a glance however… Thank you for sharing…Happy to have you with us👍👍👋
Unfortunately no I have not found any, it’s very common at a lot of these site I visit. Photos, journals etc,,. Nothing, unfortunate but mysterious.. Thank you👋👋👍
@perrysonier4285 have had way more keys than this in my intentions for years and never had a problem. Thanks for pointing that out.only reason I run this small set is they don't make as much noise on the ruff roads
Sweet spot that is! Self contained I’m assuming all the hunting one could handle and maybe trout in that glacier lake? Clean water and tons of fresh timber to cut, what a retreat now a days and well worth the trek! History is something else and it’s everywhere in each state
The lake is what we call a cirque lake. They develop during the glaciation of the area in a valley under the mountains that provide the snow to feed the glacier, long ago. They are often deep as they are carved out at the bottom of the glacier.
Ah cool, it’s really fascinating. beautiful water clear and just fresh looking. It’s deep..has a special hue and energy, you can look into it and get lost almost.. Thank you👍
Thank you, Really enjoy sharing and learning somethings as we go as well. Truly my pleasure and just happy to bring some joy to the world! Sorry to hear this as well man. Setbacks in life are extremely difficult I’ve had many and we all have our own battles.. One thing personally I have learned when life doesn’t go as planned attack it and make it your strength the best you can. I’m a firm believer things or situations happen for a reason. But understand most of the time you always have a what if in the back of your mind after the “battle”. If you hold on to the “what if” or “what could be” you will look in the rear view mirror to long and loose sight at what’s in front of you. Life a beautiful ride and I’m just rambling my two-cents but truly happy to have you on board. Thank you and hope your evening is treating you the best it can! See you on the trail buddy👋
Alright OBJ and @MDR,.... I want exact directions with GPS marks and the like to this awesome trail and mine camp !!! Just kidding 😆😅🤣😂 Some people 🙄 Thanks for taking this old man along and sharing your adventure. .... There was a time for me, but it has passed, I'll just let you do the hard part and just enjoy the video ... Thanks for another awesome share. Take care, stay safe, alert and free !!! Best wishes from southwestern Oregon...⛏⚒⛏
Always nice to hear from you OG, maybe someday we will get you on the dusty trail for one more hoorah! My pleasure buddy, happy to share and glad to have you on the trail with us.. Thanks for the kind words and If I can meet you at the base of the mountain I’ll shoot you cords.. -Always am 👋👋👍
Wow, I'm so jealous! Love it! I used to drive around in the Oregon woods in my - get this - 20 year old Honda Civic. I was always alone, so didn't get nearly as adventurous as you guys were, but it was really fun. I can't believe I never popped my tires or broke down. I finally got too old for it and also thought I was really pushing my luck with my car, but I really miss those days. I will say I've been a real proponent of Honda cars since then! 😄 (Now it's 25 years old and has NEVER broken down on me.)
That item you called a wheelbarrow is not a wheelbarrow it's called a slusher bucket and it would tie a horse onto that ring in the middle of that loop that pivots over the center and it was two poles one of each side of the back and the horse would pull it and a guy directing the bucket would either pivot it up or pivot it down to dig out ditches or basements or whatever a little bit at a time with one horse
Thanks for dropping in, start researching claims (mine claims) and revenue analysis and follow rail ways. you can find a lot rail roads moved the goods and people and the people went into the mountains to find riches… Google maps are your friend! 👍👍👋
Started exploring old mining sites in northern California 50 years ago. Many buildings were log or board and batten cedar. Over the years most have burned down in forest fires.
Welcome fellow explorer, happy to hear this. Never regret doing these things with our precious time do we? Thank you for sharing, hope today’s going well and some adventure is involved!👍👍❤️
24:45 It really is interesting to think about the old time prospectors and survey teams that were out combing the wilderness. Some life those guys must of led.
WOW GREAT VIDEO !!! How many miles do you think 🤔 it is to get back in there ??? Thank you very much for the unique adventure. Blessings From Linden Michigan 😮 WOW UNBELIEVABLE !!!!
I really enjoyed this video. I wish you could tell where it's located. I wish you would have done some panning for gold while you were there. It would have been interesting to see if you found any gold. I would have done some fishing as well.
Those tracks I found towards the end of the adventure are actually pretty close to a rock wash on the mountains edge. Happy to share thank you for coming along! 👋👋
Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback and genuine community we are building here and I’m glad you’re here. Seriously thanks! Sharing the adventure and learning from others is such a treasure. Appreciate you! Also every subscriber or share is a step towards something new and unique sites unseen and lands unconquered..Everyone counts and we will keep marching onwards into the unknown👍👋👋
Fascinating mining camp find! One can only but imagine the struggle to bring some of those bigger machinery components with only wagons to haul them in. If one could reclaim this area and build it back up as a remote mountain range camp, you could use a bulldozer to clean up the worst of it, while improving AND maintaining the trail with the dozer. Bringing cargo container cabins in would be nice, but if not by trailer, then by cargo air drop with a helicopter. Basically one only needs clean water to survive on up there, then a few properly dug and contained outhouses. Heat can be wood stoves, but also supplimented by solar panels for added energy sources and lighting. I could see installing a proper perimeter fence of about 15 to 20 feet in height to keep out hostile wildlife while allowing for deep snow depths. But the greenry around there means one could in essence grow gardens, even if raised bed ones including with greenhouses (Alaskan wilderness style).
@cwp1alpha or just leave it, doing that would cause alot damage to the area.it would take alot to fix that road as you only seen 1/16 of the trail.....it's very bad.
This is some great insightful work here, I agree. I like that I’m not thinking alone here. I have spent the better part of a day wondering how habitable this area could truly be amongst the triumph of will.. It would require a few summers non stop work and some headaches but this is doable.
I also came to the conclusion that logistics and winter would be the only trying time truly, outside of being uncomfortable with a few natural events summer would bring and upkeep headaches as well as maintenance of equipment. Water looks viable in a area I didn’t catch on camera and it is exactly as you described..
I always keep an eye out for something like this. Eventually we will do it together as a channel, that’s a promise.
Thank you for sharing love pondering this stuff as much as the adventures we share. I hope to hear from you on the next one, Thank you👍👍👋
until next time friend.
@@MontanaDirtRoadsI would be up there the rest of my life partner…This is the way!
….. only takes $$$ - where is this place, US or CN?
@@johnkarlson8692
Montana somewhere...
I grew up in the Biggest producing gold mining town of its time. Started in the late 1800s Bralorne BC Canada. There are people still living there as logging started, but there isn't much there now. No bank, or police, the people who live there love the quiet. When I grew up there is was on the tail end of production. 1955 to 1971 when the mine closed. It was devastating to the town, watching your friends all moving away. My mom and dad were one of the last to leave. I would walk through town and see open doors, bikes and stuff just left behind. It was a strange feeling at the age of 15 having to move from the only town you knew. Its 2024 and we still have reunions every year. We are all getting older but for a lot of us still feel displaced.
Love to hear this from our viewers, memories to treasure..So interesting! Thank you..😀
@@MountainWestProductions I was told a few years ago that someone from China had purchased the whole town; lock, stock and barrel.
MAN OH MAN.
I'M 88 YRS OLD AND WOULD LOVE TO BE THERE WITH Y'ALL!!
haha I be happy to have you, the more the merrier!
Thank you sir, hope todays treating you well!👍👍👋
The scenic views were amazing and the history of the place was really great, but the fact that one of them always has a weapon in hand definitely said something about the potential for trouble. I realize it's most likely the wildlife variety, but it does always make me nervous when my guide needs to be armed and ready.
Great trip though. Glad it all went well. 😀
100 + years ago there were no chain saws , those log buildings were hewed, and corners notched all with axes- square bit, broad, and adze. They did have saws of various uses and types. Most all work was done by hand tools, oxen, mules, horses, and steam. It would be good to know what minerals they were mining.
A 3 ft wide vein of quartz containing gold and silver. Trace of copper. This in mentioned at footage of old ball crusher. you are absolutely correct in everything you explained. Thank you 👍👋👋
The most beautiful place I've ever seen. I actually teared up seeing this. I wish life was still like this. The way the world is now, wow. You're very lucky to be able to see this place in person. I wish you would've gone inside the old cabins and taken a look.. don't get to see that kind of craftsmanship in today's time. Thank you for sharing
Thank you, happy to share.❤️
Gorgeous country. If you happen to live in an area where you step outside and see majestic mountains, please don't take it for granted.
I have wanted to live out west for most of my adult life, but my wife doesn't want to move until her parents go to glory. I just hope that when that happens I'm not too old.
I understand you completely..There’s never a perfect time. Whenever I made choices in particular that have changed my life or my “normal” I have come to realize the stars never align like we hope.
Just jump, when you have that feeling. the world seems to favor bold decisions even if turmoil follows. As long as you take what’s yours and continue working towards your goals or dreams it’s hard for evil or bad energy to stop that. I hope you find your peace, I’m rooting for you. Truly.
Thanks for sharing, hope today finds you well👍👍👋
@@MountainWestProductions I appreciate it! Good luck to you as well!😃
Beautiful. Imagine the resourcefulness and skills of the Men who made that town. Must be really hard to build a log cabin from scratch. Respect to those people. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿
Agreed, Happy to share.
Thanks👍👋👋
You guys have enough good material right there to build a small cabin. How often does anyone go up that trail? It's not grown over, somebody must be using it. What a beautiful spot, just gorgeous. That pollution you spoke of, looks like rust in the water. The old cabins are picturesque, but the old machinery is a scar on the land.
Exceptional video I really enjoyed that view I grew up in Leadville Colorado and it’s the same era of mining operations at 10.152 ft elevation , so beautiful at that elevation! Great job fellas 👍
@@Mr.sir24132mihi Beautiful country, happy to have you along. Thanks👍👍👋
Damn it! I have been planning and saving to go investigate this area for 3 years...no need to now, i done seen it on youtube....thanks fella"s. Guess i will go to Hooters instead
haha, Thanks for watching! Happy to share and safe travels buddy👍👋👋
Where they at @scotimotti
Ha! Found it on google maps. Beautiful location. Thank you for sharing. My dad would find these kinds of places while hunting all the time. I remember exploring a few.
Your secret is safe with me ❤
Appreciate ya, it’s a special place, glad you enjoyed it! Happy to have you along for the adventure! Thank you for dropping in and the kind words👍👋👋
I loved seeing the abandoned town. Beautiful country. Thanks for letting me tag along.
Happy to have you along for the adventure. Thank you!
this is an amazing video. always impresses me how nature reclaims her environment
10:54 is a horse drawn scoop, missing the wooden handles, used to dig basement, ponds, leveling ground, whatever. Could be used as a stone boat. I used to have one.
This^! Thank you👍👋👋
I have heard it referred to as a slush bucket. As a kid we used that, attached to a tractor to clean out a small pond
For those who work remotely this is definitely a place to live
Nice video! Please show more detail of each and every building, and each and every piece of equipment. I would have loved to see the inside of every building. If you're going to take the trouble to travel out that far, show us *everything* in every detail please!
I hear you, Always improving for a better experience! slowly but surly! Will keep this in mind, thanks friend 👋👋
FANTASTIC!! WONDERFUL!! Thank you!!
Amazing for your video of I Found An Abandoned Town Unseen For Centuries In The Remote Wilderness. I love your video and I thanks for your sharing.🥰
Happy to hear, and a pleasure to share!
Hope today’s treating you well!👍👋
until next time friend.
This is fascinating!
Thanks for taking us along. 🙏🏽💝✨👍🏽🌻
As a mother of a son who also likes to explore and hike to off the beaten path places, I’m so happy to see you staying safe with your knowledge of the cave structure. 🙏🏽✨💝💯
That’s awesome
, glad to hear it.! Everyone needs to get out and get lost for time to time..
Thank you for joining us on the the trail, happy to share👍👍👋
WOW what a great video and just lots of history. Thank you and be careful out there.
Thank you couldn’t have done it without you guy! happy to share the journey.
Hope today’s treating you well sir. 👍👋👋
-will do
Wow! Can you imagine hauling all that iron equipment, particularly that huge round tank with the rivets, up that mountain! As a rockhound, my imagination wonders what kinds of cool rocks could be found in those tailings and surrounding area.
Thank you for joining👍👋
The tailings had a good amount of quartz the 3’ft wide vein contained gold and silver running perpendicular. The whole operation we explored was centered around quartz bearing gold and silver!
APA has some really cool mines all around it. The Bear Gulch Mine that was on the Fox series is one drainage over. People mistakenly refer to the district as the Bear Gulch District but the real name is the Tidal Wave District.
That's not a shovel. It's called "a slip" and it was pulled by horses to scoop and carry dirt to fill low spots in roads.
almost a horse drawn wheelbarrow combo of the times!
Thanks for the thoughts, hope todays treating you well!👋👍
Wish you would have looked in the small building with the chimney and door on it.
Thanks for the ride!
Always happy to share👍👍👋
Wow! You find the best!! Your video quality is wonderful, nice drone footage, too.
I am new to your channel and just love it! Thank you for posting and sharing your great work!
Happy to hear it, very cool!
Thank you!👍👍
Hey brother, I understand keeping mum about location etc. I'm too bloody old to poke around fallen buildings already knowing what's inside. I doubt I'd ever get up to such a place even though I have my old Willys Wagon and years (decades) of off road and on road experience. But as you speak of history and ask me to imagine it... well, I can't really since it's just a random site in the trees of Montana somewhere and nothing more. I've worked various oil fields from Utah, Montana, N. Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas... mining is work. Hard, thankless, dangerous and deadly work. Cold, hot, lonely work, months, years away from family and friends and always looking for better pay. Friend of mine had a great grandfather named Plummer who was sheriff in Bannack MT who got himself hung for trying out a scheme on the wrong side of the law. Thing is, everyone knows this history and for my friend especially, THIS place is significant and meaningful. Enough so, it's a preserved site. Many other places are like that for a lot of us. My great grandpa was a blacksmith and sheriff in Dodge City Kansas in the 1870's and '80's. He decked Wyatt Erp once for not removing his gun in a saloon. But Peter Walter Beamer and Erp became friends after that. And after working on a big windfarm project a few years ago there, the town has become all the more special to me. Even found my gr grandma's boarding house (near Applebees!) So... not telling you what to do. Just pointing out the mining camps are all documented and findable via state sources. A few of us old timers love the scenery and history and KNOW it wasn't really very romantic then or now. But knowing the history a bit more activated the only time machine outside of music and memories I know of. Meanwhile, please stay safe, stay armed, and God bless... oh, and watch out for Bigfoot! 😂
It’s my passion and a honor to keep it alive. History is only one generation away from disappearing. Happy to bring you down memory lane and to share this. It’s important we don’t lose anything for my children as well…
Thank you sir, precious experience to share always safe and will do! Bigfoot hasn’t given himself up but I will keep an eye out for you! 👍👍
That piece of equipment is a Slip. It was pulled by horses and had wood hands to control digging a small bite of soil or rock. It would slide at a low angle until full. Horses or mules would drag it to the dump site. The handles would then be lifted so as to dig at a sharp enough angle so as cause the cutting edge to tip the slip over and dump the load. It is pretty easy to get tossed and hurt. I have used them behind tractors as well.
It would be great to see what this looked liked when people lived there! Wow, what a beautiful spot and so many buildings! I wonder how long ago it was abandoned? Thanks for the tour. (from Sandi)
it would really be something, can’t imagine.. Would have been extremely isolated and remote given the day and age of the site..What a time..
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Wow another beautiful mountain mine the scenery there is stunning. I know I say it every time I comment on your videos what a great video be safe and keep the videos coming.
Thank you Charles, always a pleasure to hear from you.. The channel isn’t the same without your comments and insight thanks for being here since day one!!
Happy to share buddy, look forward to bringing the next adventure right to ya! Thank you!
-Always am.
That Cherokee's seen some rough miles. Probably gonna see a bunch more....
I hope so for all of us! Thank you for tuning in, hope you’re well👋👍👍
New subscriber here. Great explore of a neat site with a ton of history. Keep up the great uploads.
welcome, Thank you for the kind words!
Pleasure sharing this on-going adventure and always will. Appreciate the subscribe, goes along way and helps our expedition reach new sites and unique locations along with the lost history that we share along the way!
Hope today’s treating you well and look forward to hearing from you on the next one. Awesome!👍👍👋
Thanks for sharing this great adventure. I'm a Jeep guy but here in the Northeast we don't have anything like this. Maybe someday.
For now, subbed.
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Thank you for sharing these awe inspiring vistas! Though I personally would have enjoyed the silence of the mountain and the bubbling stream and breeze to canned noise. Again, thank you so much for sharing this small slice of God's many wonders.
really fascinating .......good for the human spirit to be in remote abandoned places like this,,,,,surrounded by deep Nature wilderness and nostalgic vibes of long ago human human dreams,,,,,,,, the junk piles aren't pretty, but a wistful haunting feeling still hangs in the atmosphere of such places which is good to feel for reasons hard to define, but linked to something deep in our emotions............. thanks for sharing,,,!!
This is where you need a drone to go in ahead of you
I bet that lake hasnt been fished in maybe decades. I would camp up there and fish that lake for days. ❤
The lake unfortunately looked to be bad due to the cyanide leeching during the gold extraction process..I did not see a single fish tooling around the lake, no kidding..👍 I wish!
Wow I love these old place’s! Awesome video & find! 👍❤️🤘
Thank you, very precious site here. More than happy to share with you and hope to hear from you on the next adventure!👋
Lot of old towns in Texas if you ever get that way.Many are located on Farm to Market Roads.
I’m very happy to receive it from you It’s a new town no one has ever seen how exciting❤
Nice video and ride. Would have really been something seeing that entire operation set up. If that was a wheel I saw near the front of that boiler, it was probably an early wood burning, steam driven tractor. Probably cleared a trail for that tractor to haul that equipment up there. Then served as a power unit with belts from an idler wheel.
I wouldn't assume any ponds near mines are good water, tho.
Incredible work here, I agree just precious.
It’s great to hear this, a few of your insights I haven’t even considered while still researching this explore I know the community appreciates different perspectives and insights as well. Sometimes people like yourself make the adventure even better!
Steam driven tractor..man that would be awesome to see!! Hmmm…
Thank you for sharing! Hope to hear from you next time and that todays treating you well.👍👋👋
Thank you.
You let yourself get sucked in..."just another few feet"...You need to shake off that curiosity, and stay safe. Great video. Thanks.
It’s something that’s hard to get over, I understand you however… Thank you and happy to share. Hope todays been good for ya👍👍👋
I expected any moment for a bear or mountain lion nursing her young to be hiding in one of those cabins and spring out on you both. Yikes!
Living the dream I see. Thanks for the video!
Thank you, happy to share with you👍👍👋
Firstly, kudos to the driver. Most would have turned back long before. What a killer find! I can only imagine being there during the winters. A bit of snow I'm sure. Definitely, always carry a gun. I live in rural Oregon and sometimes surprising a bear or big cat is as dangerous as a hungry or overprotective mother animal. Great location. I do lot of the same type of exploring. Grateful I found your channel. Haven't gone through what other content you post. But this one is a good one for sure. Keep it up, maybe we will meet on a scout. I would recognize the jeep for sure. Be safe, don't destroy, carry out and have fun.
Thank you for the thoughtful words, appreciate them. Glad to have you with us. My pleasure sharing the passion friend. Thank you, Thank you.
Hope to see you on the trail! 👍👋👋
A metal detectors paradise! Did you take a metal detector with you? Probably a lot of period relics around the buildings.
This reminds me of the old mining cabins I found dotting the hills above Tin Cup and Pitkin, Colorado while elk hunting. The wheelbarrow looking thing looks a lot like the buckets from a dredge. I would assume it was used in a similar manner, maybe dragging material out of the mine.
I for one love the fact you don't share your locations. Finding them is half the fun. Many others might not tell you the location but probably I 80% of the time I can figure it out just by studying the backdrop, signs, etc. Cant tell you how many I have marked on my map due to that. Keep doing what your doing. And no, Im not giving away the ones I found. Its called an adventure for a reason.
Rock on! ❤️
Thank you for the kind thoughts, glad to have you here with us on the expedition!
see you on the trail man👍👍👋
Amazing explore thanks for taking us along.
Thank you, Happy To Share👍👍
What a gorgeous place to live!!!!
So cool!
Amazing video guys ..keep up the awesome work .
Thank you for the kind words, Happy to share the experience..👍👋👋
Hope to hear from you on the next one.
Safe travels
Neat mining ghost town. Thanks for sharing
Well, all i can say is that it is a beautiful place to have a nice sit down and pop up a tent and make a nice camp fire and put up a pot of coffee and beans 😁😁 and im am disappointed that you didnt collect a good size rock from the mine. I saw some nice pieces and would be a perfect souvenir of this unique and beautiful location.
Happy to share and spark your curiosity, well said..!
Thank you for coming along, hope today’s going well for you👍👍👋
When I did my colorado outward bound course in the 70’s, we hiked up to what I believe was the tomboy mine above telluride and bridal veil falls. There were still many buildings standing then we spent the night in the cook shack which still had the old stove which we fired up. Unfortunately I could only find one photo of that site. On that trip we had also spent the night in one abandoned cabin. We also then hiked over the 13,000 foot pass that lead the way down to the camp ground at camp bird.
That’s an Awesome Adventure, It’s bittersweet you found one remaining photo from the expedition..I bet it brings great memories at a glance however…
Thank you for sharing…Happy to have you with us👍👍👋
The tool you found is called a,fresno. You hooked a horse to it and scooped dirt. Probably what was use to make the road you came in on.
I agree I have one that my grandpa used. Pettigrew Arkansas! loging roads. he was born in 1903.
my dad used one but he called it a slip.
@@laceydawgee2244 yup I’ve heard that also.
Awesome stuff!
I love nature.
Are there any old black & white photos of people working and living up there back in the day?
Unfortunately no I have not found any, it’s very common at a lot of these site I visit. Photos, journals etc,,. Nothing, unfortunate but mysterious..
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Take your ignition key off that ring , ring of keys toooo heavy, not good to have that weight swinging
Eventually it will ruin your ignition.
@perrysonier4285 have had way more keys than this in my intentions for years and never had a problem. Thanks for pointing that out.only reason I run this small set is they don't make as much noise on the ruff roads
Sweet spot that is! Self contained I’m assuming all the hunting one could handle and maybe trout in that glacier lake? Clean water and tons of fresh timber to cut, what a retreat now a days and well worth the trek! History is something else and it’s everywhere in each state
Really Is Special, Happy To Share!
Thank you
The lake is what we call a cirque lake. They develop during the glaciation of the area in a valley under the mountains that provide the snow to feed the glacier, long ago. They are often deep as they are carved out at the bottom of the glacier.
Ah cool, it’s really fascinating. beautiful water clear and just fresh looking. It’s deep..has a special hue and energy, you can look into it and get lost almost..
Thank you👍
10;43 that is a horse drawn dirt scoop. The first railways, and main highways were built using them.
Older jeeps and wagoneer are the best for being off roads and trails! I owned numerous older wagoneers! They keep on going no matter what!
I do have great respect for Montanadirtroads rig after this as well!👍
Really enjoy your adventures with you. great videos. I wish i did more of this stuff before my muscle condition got worse.
Thank you, Really enjoy sharing and learning somethings as we go as well. Truly my pleasure and just happy to bring some joy to the world!
Sorry to hear this as well man. Setbacks in life are extremely difficult I’ve had many and we all have our own battles.. One thing personally I have learned when life doesn’t go as planned attack it and make it your strength the best you can.
I’m a firm believer things or situations happen for a reason. But understand most of the time you always have a what if in the back of your mind after the “battle”.
If you hold on to the “what if” or “what could be” you will look in the rear view mirror to long and loose sight at what’s in front of you. Life a beautiful ride and I’m just rambling my two-cents but truly happy to have you on board. Thank you and hope your evening is treating you the best it can!
See you on the trail buddy👋
Alright OBJ and @MDR,.... I want exact directions with GPS marks and the like to this awesome trail and mine camp !!! Just kidding 😆😅🤣😂 Some people 🙄 Thanks for taking this old man along and sharing your adventure. .... There was a time for me, but it has passed, I'll just let you do the hard part and just enjoy the video ... Thanks for another awesome share. Take care, stay safe, alert and free !!! Best wishes from southwestern Oregon...⛏⚒⛏
Im also too Old for that. But I know these days do not tell people how to get to these places they will destroy them! RESPECT IS GONE!
@@jwfinley7808 👍👊 Straight up !
Always nice to hear from you OG, maybe someday we will get you on the dusty trail for one more hoorah!
My pleasure buddy, happy to share and glad to have you on the trail with us.. Thanks for the kind words and If I can meet you at the base of the mountain I’ll shoot you cords..
-Always am 👋👋👍
This is the way.
Just amazing guys! Thank you.
Thank you..👋
Would be so fun to ride that trail with you. Gorgeous spot!
Happy to share, thank you for the kind words.
hope todays treating you well👍👍👋
Beautiful country up there.
Very good job there. I use to go into places like that in the Wallowa Mountains in NorthEast Oregon.
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Nice!!! views!! and honest talk! Cheers! awesome! Thx
Happy to share and have you along, thank you👍👍👋
Beautiful nature
Enjoy this ride, my old bronco would have considered this a highway.
Stunning beauty and really interesting 🤔
WOW! Awesome and gorgeous!
Wow, I'm so jealous! Love it! I used to drive around in the Oregon woods in my - get this - 20 year old Honda Civic. I was always alone, so didn't get nearly as adventurous as you guys were, but it was really fun. I can't believe I never popped my tires or broke down. I finally got too old for it and also thought I was really pushing my luck with my car, but I really miss those days. I will say I've been a real proponent of Honda cars since then! 😄 (Now it's 25 years old and has NEVER broken down on me.)
Thanks, Love an old civic!👍👍👋
Thank you for sharing this view with us
Welcome 👍👋
Thanks 👍 for sharing this with us. 👍 😊
That item you called a wheelbarrow is not a wheelbarrow it's called a slusher bucket and it would tie a horse onto that ring in the middle of that loop that pivots over the center and it was two poles one of each side of the back and the horse would pull it and a guy directing the bucket would either pivot it up or pivot it down to dig out ditches or basements or whatever a little bit at a time with one horse
All I can say is Awesome!
Thanks buddy, happy to have you along and glad to share the adventure!👍👍👋
It’s beautiful country. All. Right.
What a cool place! I would love to know where it is, but I also understand not sharing that info in these modern times 🤠
Unseen for decades thanks for the trip. Montana right?
Amazing how they brought all that iron up there. Sheesh!
Making me nervous him going in that cave
Very informative. Thanks!
Thank you for joining us, Hope todays treating you well!👍👋👋
how do you find great places like this? I want to get more in to off roading and this is a great trail and destination.
Thanks for dropping in, start researching claims (mine claims) and revenue analysis and follow rail ways. you can find a lot rail roads moved the goods and people and the people went into the mountains to find riches… Google maps are your friend! 👍👍👋
Started exploring old mining sites in northern California 50 years ago. Many buildings were log or board and batten cedar. Over the years most have burned down in forest fires.
Welcome fellow explorer, happy to hear this. Never regret doing these things with our precious time do we?
Thank you for sharing, hope today’s going well and some adventure is involved!👍👍❤️
Wow a very very rare abandoned mining town. Who wouda thought.
Awesome job with the drone!
Thank you👋
Great video ! Montana ?
24:45 It really is interesting to think about the old time prospectors and survey teams that were out combing the wilderness. Some life those guys must of led.
Agreed really is fascinating, would have been an experience tagging along with those guys and what they came across in travel.
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Where is this? A lot of words in your description but no mention of where you are!
WOW GREAT VIDEO !!! How many miles do you think 🤔 it is to get back in there ??? Thank you very much for the unique adventure. Blessings From Linden Michigan 😮 WOW UNBELIEVABLE !!!!
you are welcome, happy to share.
Thank you for the kind words!👋👋👍
So which lake is that? Which mountain Are you showing in the distance?
That truck is a beast.
I really enjoyed this video. I wish you could tell where it's located. I wish you would have done some panning for gold while you were there. It would have been interesting to see if you found any gold. I would have done some fishing as well.
I know, we both have our pans didn’t bring them…Would have been really nice to see something!
Thank you 👍👋
Wow what an awesome view.
At that elevation, pretty hard winters unless they were only up there starting early spring.
The bear would be hunting for Moths in the loose rock on the side of the hill.
That is a common thing that bears do to fatten up for winter.
Those tracks I found towards the end of the adventure are actually pretty close to a rock wash on the mountains edge.
Happy to share thank you for coming along! 👋👋
Awesome exploration!
Thanks for showing.
Always, happy to have you along👍
Thank you👋
that was a slip scraper, pulled behind a team of horses or mules to move dirt. We used one on the farm into my teens.
You just got a subscriber you have an exceptional channel, thank you.
Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback and genuine community we are building here and I’m glad you’re here. Seriously thanks!
Sharing the adventure and learning from others is such a treasure. Appreciate you!
Also every subscriber or share is a step towards something new and unique sites unseen and lands unconquered..Everyone counts and we will keep marching onwards into the unknown👍👋👋
awrome video! thank you
you are very welcome, really happy to share the day. Glad to hear from you👋👍
Thanks for the kind words.