Great Mine With Wild Legacy Of A Tragic Game & Hollywood Royalty
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Silver, zinc and lead were discovered at this site in 1887, but it was not until the 1920s that work on this mine really took off, with extensive mining, an aerial tramway, mill and more. The mill infrastructure was significant enough to serve as a filming location for a film starring Roy Rogers! Starting around the 5:28 mark, you can see the mill below (the film quality isn't great, but still gives a good sense of what was there):
• Bells of San Angelo 19...
Now, let’s talk about The Game and Bob Lord…
The origins of The Game supposedly reach back to Los Angeles where, in 1973, a graphic designer named Donald Luskin and a friend, Patrick Carlyle, created non-stop, dusk-to-dawn games solving puzzles across the sprawling Los Angeles metropolitan area. Although these games were mostly an “underground” phenomenon, they eventually caught the attention of the Los Angeles Times, which brought the games to the attention of the Walt Disney Company. Disney created a film, released in 1980, named Midnight Madness, based on the games led by Luskin and Carlyle. Although the film was a commercial failure, it caught the attention of a Florida teenager named Joe Belfiore.
In the early 1980s, Joe and his friends created their own version of the game like the one portrayed in the film. However, they really took it to the next level when Joe moved to California’s Bay Area to attend Stanford University and their game became The Game…
The structure of The Game is essentially that of a scavenger hunt, road race and puzzle-solving challenge that players encounter to take them to a location where another puzzle challenge awaits. Each successfully completed puzzle takes one to a new location. So, one could think of The Game as more of a race. Historically, The Game events always had a story or theme that connected everything.
Joe Belfiore once described The Game as “the ultimate test for Renaissance men and women.”
As the popularity of The Game increased, it brought in more of Silicon Valley’s elite - venture capitalists, tech company founders, executives at large tech firms and more. The Game events took on a new intensity as well, becoming increasingly expensive, high-tech and psychological as each running of The Game tried to outdo the prior events.
Examples I have seen cited include team members being dumped at a strip club after having been relieved of all clothing and possessions and left with nothing but a hospital gown and a clue written in reverse lettering on the back of their necks, being forced to walk around the roof of the Space Needle, having to get a piercing at a tattoo parlor, staged arrests and kidnappings by actors, crashing a gay nightclub where one had to dress in drag and sing “It’s Raining Men” on stage, complex maneuvers involving automatic weapons, helicopters and speed boats… I think you get the idea.
In late October of 2002, a particularly epic hosting of The Game launched in the Las Vegas area, named “Shelby Logan’s Run”. One of the participants was 37-year-old Bob Lord, a software engineer that had worked at Microsoft before starting, and then selling, an internet search company named XYZFind. This was Bob Lord’s first time participating in The Game and he showed up prepared with a wet suit, GPS unit, radios, laptop computer, clothing for any situation. But not a good flashlight...
After a physically and mentally intense run to 16 other clue sites around Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam, an abandoned prison, Goodsprings and others, the sleep-deprived teams were directed to the Argentena (no, that’s not a typo) Mine where the next clue awaited them. The team were told to walk exactly 1,133 feet on a precise compass heading and to find something called 1306. None of the players knew what 1306 was. Well, 1306 was an adit that had “1306” spray painted on it…
However, Bob Lord wanted to scout the route first and climbed up the small hill that you saw at the start of the video. On the way, he recalculated his bearings using his computer and suddenly found himself in front of an adit. For whatever reason, the team decided this was where they should proceed despite “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO” in orange spray paint by the portal and, perhaps more significantly, the number 1296 in blue (You can see the remains of these in the video). Followed by his team members, Bob led the way into the adit, their only light coming from the screen on his GPS unit…
His team members heard him slip and then heard only silence despite calling out to him. Bob Lord had fallen down the 30-foot hole you see in the video, crushing vertebrae in his neck as well as both of his arms and suffering serious head trauma. Bob was left a quadriplegic and is now blind as a result of the brain damage he suffered.
The Game still continues in various forms, but the bad publicity and extensive litigation following the Bob Lord tragedy emasculated it.
Welp, it’s that time of the year again. Rain, sleet, snow and TVR binge watching. I take a break from this guy and wait for him to add videos and catch up where I left off. Great exploration videos and straight to the point. No clickbait thumbnails. Great channel and commentary.
80 degress and sunny here in CO 😂
What an interesting (and tragic) story. Great breakdown and of course, another fantastic video!
I would watch him explore other things if he ever decides to. his content is outstanding. very enjoyable.
What a great night,just got off of working 12 hours,now I can relax and watch Justin bust his butt exploring mines for our historical enjoyment,THANX GUYS!!
Glad you're enjoying them! Thank you very much.
A friend and I explored that mine many times and camped there back in the late 80s. It was a lot cleaner back then. The fencing at the blocked adit was built by a local boy scout group years later but explorers kept breaking through. That burned vertical shaft went to a higher level just below the top of the shaft entrance where you saw daylight. That level, which you didn't explore has more impressive columns on it and is a great place to camp during bad weather. All and all, it is a great mine to explore. There are also more mines to explore just down the road heading away from Goodsprings.
Yes, I figured there was probably something like that running off of the shaft... It must have been great to visit that site in the 80s.
1.28 you got my attention. Made me read damit... lol.. Awsome video.
Explaining the sarcasm made me smile because I thought "well i never knew that! Well this bloke knows what he's talking about? I'll take his word for it"
Danke fur das Hochladen sehr intresant
Wow! Mine is amazing on its own. Rest of story really adds to the history. Thanks for taking us along.
Wow!
The description you provided is a crazy story!
Thanks for explaining it.
It’s really well written too!
Thank you taking me along. 🙏
Thank you. I'm glad you found it interesting... I felt like the mine was pretty cool on its own, but that story added a whole other layer of interesting on top.
Nice mine with a lot of cool features - thanks for showing this exploration to us
The description is wild! Sorry to read about Mr. Lord's bad moment. Beautiful square set. The demolished hopper and tram station must have been something to see in it's day! Thanks Justin and Crew!
I'm glad I stopped and read the description when you mentioned it! Made the video much more intriguing.
The Game sounds like "Extreme Geocaching" 😮
Indeed, that would be a good description of The Game. And, yes, I thought it made the mine much more interesting, for example, to find the exact hole that he fell into and which created so much attention and controversy...
Hell of an interesting History lesson in the description ... amazing what people subject themselves to "for fun" ...
Nice mine!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Amazing story. A mine becomes a film set, then becomes a background for other shenanigans....and a terrible injury.
The outside shots of the concrete look a lot like a place we have been, I need to pull some pictures out and look. Few things on this earth are as stupid as the people who go out into the back country and destroy the sites and artifacts that are links to our past. Just maddening.
The interior of that one was, to me anyway, about as confusing as any you have taken us in. The obviously moved a lot of material.
I see from the comments, people have started catching on about your writing talent, and love of researching the history of the mines you visit.
LOL, I guess I was ahead of the trend there as I've been reading them so long now.
That's the first place I go to, to see if there's something unique about what's inside.
BTW, this was actually a very brief description comparatively speaking, as you usually have a good three minutes of verbiage contained in your vast usage of the English vocabulary, what with the various terms used in the mining industry, and your great love of the alfabet government goons that are so destructive of the history that's contained within the mines themselves.
Oops shouldn't say such things that may come to haunt one in the future by the very same ones mentioned.
Excellent as always, and I do love the extended videos, much like they use to be..
As always keep up the great work my young friend, and please be safe your a valuable asset to us old ones that can't venture into such places anymore..
Hope you had a Great Day, and may Tomorrow be even Better, because you make mine better every time you upload one of your adventures.
Thank you for your time and consideration for others
Thank you for the kind words. UA-cam limits how many characters that one can enter into the description. So, I actually had more that I wanted to share, but was unable to.
Great videos waiting to hear how your mine is coming along it's been awhile
Cool mine - it feels (through video) like it's a very compact ore-body (laterally) that they sort of spiraled around up & down and hollowed out the mountain, without spreading very widely on any level.
Great video Justin!
I always like the video first then watch because i know its going to be good. Awesome stuff man, i dream of finding some mines like you find! keep up the awesome work.
That's a high vote of confidence! I appreciate it.
Yeah, I always like the video up front because it often shifts to the next UA-cam video before I get a chance to like it. So I like it up front and would definitely take away that like if it was going badly while I watched. So far, I haven’t had to take away a like from your channel.
As soon, as I saw that thumbnail, I was like is that the big horn mine.
I actually haven't been to that one.
What a trip....Thank you.
i have been in mines there is no way i would proceed without the right lighting and equipment, your life is worth more than money and prestige....love your videos always more than just walking into a cave...
Very interesting explore and story wow poor Bob. Thnx for a new nice episode Justin.
Amazing mine, always happy to come along :)
What an interesting (and tragic) story. Great breakdown and of course, another fantastic video!
Thank you, I love the geology and boy that was a huge mill that reminded me of another mining town.
Their mill and the whole town got flattened as the were in the business of radioactive products.
I have great respect for the hikes and the technical aspects of your adventures I am very thankful to witness here as I will probably never make it out West nor do I want to endanger myself and others by my ineptitude. You guys do this professionally and I stand back.
Sorry for Bob Lord.
Your exploring showed what you commented on. That twisting, infrastructure and all made this fantastic to watch. Thanks for that description and video link.
What an amazing hoist house, bin, and chutes they had set up. The Roy Rogers vid really made mining come to life.
"4 views. 57 seconds ago." - good timing to update the subscription feed :)
I remember playing that with friends years ago !
Great as always
Thank you.
Wow, this explore is quite incredible. I definitely will be exploring the photos & Roy Rogers movie. You keep out doing yourself. Your description read is awesome as well. You should be making shows for HBO or Showtime.
The views of the mine as it was are priceless, singing cowboys
Good evening from Southeast South Dakota
Your killing it awesome‼️
Great mine - and really appreciate the history!
Very interesting mine indeed and an interesting history too. Seemed like a very complex complex. Thanks for sharing Justin. All the best to you.
One word..extensive!
“…higher class mine explorers..”. Great video!
Great Mine, Like the cathedral part...strange. Just in passing, yours is the only channel I will watch that's over 20mins. to the end. I find time for your videos. Ok enough Wind.
That's high praise. Thank you very much...
Thank you for the explanation about the "game". I recently explored and extensively photographed that mine and this explains what I was seeing, such as string on the floor and all the paint markings. The burned out shaft really PO'ed me. The jerks even left the gas can. It really depresses me to see mines that I explored 30+ years ago only to go back and see they have been burned out and vandalized. Why? The doll and the skeleton are interesting. I used a picture of the skeleton as an avatar on a different website.
Yes, it is a shame to see such things (we saw the gas can as well)... It has definitely gotten worse over the past decade or two.
Great explore and history lesson Justin. Thank you very much!
Awesome mine| Awesome exploration!
Great mine, thanks
What an incredible mine! Thanks for bringing us this exploration.
Awesome video and explanation.
Great write up as always. I think the skeleton should have been pointing up at the rocks. Great mine👍👍
Ace mate. Addictive viewing.👍
Hi, Your channel has become my favorite mine explore channel. Ive always loved mines as I come from an old mining family here in Australia. Where I lived as a child there is a granite mountain behind our house that has mines that we used to visit. There are no roads or tracks to them I just know where they are. They mined silver, lead, tungsten & molybdenite. We used to pick pieces of silver metal out of the walls as kids. The last time I was there was in 1991.
Cheers Daniel.
Thanks, Daniel. It must have been fun growing up near a mountain like that!
@16:46 I suspect that wood was holding up the ceiling to stabilize the loose rock you pointed out. Something failed and the whole pile of wood is now on the floor.
Awesome video. Thanks
Awesome!
Thanks, great content. Always watch and am subscribed. :)
My gawd, that story in the description! I had no idea!
That's a huge and scattered mine.
It would be neat to see aap of this mine.🇨🇦
𓏢 the best! 🇨🇦
You are having a nice summer season this year. Digging the mines. Genesis we can be friends 😂definitely
looking atthe RR clip, u can just glimpse a couple of water tanks way up
Justin this is an awesome mine I appreciate the historic details. If you don't mind sharing, what was the envelope looking blue thing you picked up in front of the doll?
I don't remember that and I have the camera in one hand and a light in the other, so I'm not able to pick something up. What is the time stamp in the video for what you're referring to?
Have you ever been exploring and ran across other people exploring?
Not yet...
Any dead body’s?
Even though we like never see the actual thing they are after. Would be so amazing to see the wall of quartz they are chasing., Maybe one day.....
I wonder if the burned stuff was an attempt to bring down the supports to block the mine.
I do not understand why people need to distroy! 🇨🇦
Our standard unit of measurement is "Italians".
Your friend wouldn't happen to be 1.25 Italians tall, would he?
The mineralization looked neat, random sparkles here and there.
Wish the camera caught what you were seeing better but such cameras are gigantic, expensive, and fragile temperamental beasts.
Thanks much for looking this one over!
Wish the tram had still been standing, such a waste of history.
A very fair point... Yes, my friend is approximately 1.25 Italians tall.
Mine exploring is very hard on gear. As it is, I go through 2-3 cameras a year and those are fairly rugged. So, yes, unfortunately, the temperamental, high-end cameras would not fare well in the mines.
@@TVRExploring I'd give the high end camera about one minute tops, maybe 30 seconds.
Again, thanks much!
Exactly!@@brentkeller3826
I noticed some flaky white lining on the brake band of the burned out tram, probably asbestos?
Gas can and evidence of burn at the bottom of that shaft seems suspiciously nefarious.
Oh, all of the fires in there were definitely set intentionally.
36:40 THE SKELETON APPEARS
Disgusting that people disrespect history with their rubbish and burning ..who would even consider doing that .
THE LITTLE DOLL MIGHT BE SOMETHING WONDER HUSSY HOW SHE WOULD LEAVE A LITTLE DOLL BEHIND
ya know, before i finished this video i was thinking of the old WW2 training films and why wouldnt someone making money from this mine make a film of what your friend called "probably the biggest ore shute ever"?
There's nothing in the description below the video that says why this mine abruptly stopped visitors? As you mentioned in the video.
That story reminds me of Squid Game. 😮
What were they after besides gold ?? Wish you would say what type of mine they are if you know
How does it burn out like that ??!
Did they have fires in there too heat the mine ?? What about smoke ??
Women these days. Hopefully someone's gf appreciates them and isn't trying to kill them
Hope you at least got all the treasure stashed
Girls go where they look...
Sounds like the origins of the movie of "The Game" starring Michael Douglas and I think Sean Penn. It was a heck of a movie.
"Stope chamber" is redundant (like an ATM Machine). Stoping is a method of extracting ore from an underground mine that leaves behind an open space called a stope. Just a technicality :)
The Bob Lord story. Jeeezzz. 😔
Question: What's the point of a grizzly inside the mine? Would someone actually be tasked with breaking the rocks to smaller sizes inside the mine, rather than outside where it'd be easier?
Hi Justin, first off thank you for the awesome writ-up, do you think there was an accident whilst the mine was in operation to cause it to be burnt or was it some stupid little idiot with no respect ?. Such a shame the ore bin was destroyed like that, I bet it was a sight to behold. An awesome explore, some strange history though I gotta say. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
No, the burned sections were not an accident. They were intentional. At the bottom of the shaft you can even see the gas can that the vandals brought into the mine to set it on fire... And, yes, this definitely would have been a sight to behold!
@@TVRExploring disgusting how some people treat history. xx
Just curious why your friend looked stiff as a board up against the wall at 11:08, he look like a mannequin standing there.
Solid rock pillars folded over is evidence of movement?
Hes telling you to stop! 😂😂
Well the mine was just fascinating and the ore bin must have been something to behold. But once again we'll never see it because some idiot had to burn down history. You gotta wonder if Karma has caught up with any of these deranged morons. And Bob, well, he played the game but didn't follow the rules. Not just those that they had laid out. But the most important rule of all. Dont go into something unprepared. Being adventurous is great. But you have to set your own limitations. We all know when we are pushing our luck to the extreme. And in your gut you get that feeling that the adrenalin rush is now in the danger zone. Thats when the wise choice is to back it down a notch or two. But some people just have to "find out" im sure everyone knows what preceeds that. Its tragic but thats why they have signs everywhere that say, stay out stay alive. I wont enter a mine unless I have all the equipment and have made the arrangements to keep someone posted on my location and the time i should be making contact. Theres no reason to put other peoples lives in jeopardy for the thrill of exploration. And theres been many occasions where I knew better even though the area was clearly unvisited. I turned back because of hazards i saw. I made it over fifty. Thats not just luck. Thats knowing when to call it. Glad this team has the wisdom to make the right decision. Great exploration guys. Keep up the amazing work.
WHO THE HECK WAS BOB LORD AND YOU DIDN'T SAY WHETHER HE WAS JUST INJURED OR KILLED OR WHEN THIS HAPPENED I WISH YOU'D GIVE MORE DETAIL ON STUFF LIKE THAT INSTEAD OF JUST CURSSERY
Why don't you try reading the description below the video (as was mentioned multiple times in the video) rather than just giving it a cursory glance?
I have a couple GPS units from around 2002 and can tell you that a lit cigarette is a more reliable source of light than what Bob took with him. I dunno, kindof a chode move leading his team into the [clearly labeled] wrong adit.
Tragic, sure. Darwin Award nominee? Yep.
I'm more than inclined to agree fully with you, but I'm biased.
something been eaing at me and it accured to me to say this / not pertaining to this particular Vid/ // Bubby stay the fuck away from them Russian mines I'm not superstitious / just don't do that again... love you friend. you didn't deserve that shit your a good boy
Ha, yeah, there's some bad shit in those mines, to be sure! I appreciate the concern and, I can assure you, that I have no plans right now to return to any of the mines in Russia or the former Soviet Union.