I too visit these places mostly by internet while sitting on the couch... we are so fortunate to get a good look thanks to Wonderhussy. One amazing thing to ponder is this: there are hundreds and hundreds of places like this to hike/visit in the American West; I mean high alpine valleys that are a lush, interesting 'island world' in a vast desert sea. There are dozens in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and hundreds in the other states. Most have hiking trails and if you have an internet connection, a GPS phone/emergency beacon you too can drive to the nearest road approach, camp there and hike in! There are too many to run out.... not taking them for granted, but just saying there are so many that all of us can see them in some way. I have been to Big Sky Montana, Alta in Utah, Death Valley in CA, Boulder and Steamboat Springs CO,, Glacier National in MT (road to the sun) to name a few; I'd love to see the Jackson Hole part of Wyoming and more isolated mountains in Nevada that are surrounded by desert and bypassed by the public... these are lush islands of beauty that anyone can get to and find peace.
You probably get tired of this kind of comments but I just look forward to your videos each week. It’s a nice break from all the politics and negativity going on in the world these days.
-> Me, Three!! Ditto!! Also, love the humor, which cracks me up, at times, & "Laughter is the best medicine", the well-known publication Reader's Digest says!! 😄 Love learning, & seeing New places, & the old places that our teacher & Army Dad used to take us to.. 🏜️🌅🏞️ Divine Angelic Safeguarding, & Many Abundant Blessings, ALL!! 😻🙇🏻♀️🙏🏼🕊️👼🏻🌻🌄⛅🌤️
When i was 6-7 this guy across the street picked me up and threw me into his swimming pool. I could not swim. This guy across the street was at Peal Harbor December 7, 1941. Shooting at the planes with his rifle from his barracks he said the Japanese planes were low enough you could easily see the pilots. Half the year, during warmer months, him and his wife Sally, lived in a camper at Lundy Lake. The rest of the year Bill Sims and Sally lived across the street from me here in Long Beach Ca. Bill passed away in about 2003. I wore a Hawaiian shirt to his memorial service in Anaheim Hills. Before the service I went surfing. Sally was born in Hawaii. Bill and Sally got married a short time before Pearl Harbor was attacked. Bill told a couple years before died, “Mike as soon I could afford to buy shoes, I left Tennessee.” Bill knew every fishing hole in the eastern Sierra Nevada’s. He loaded gunpowder into homemade bullets for his many rifles(which were stollen in broad daylight from his house[he never replaced]). Growing up his grandkids were my best friends since in diapers. I learned to swim. During the summer I lived in the pool he threw me in, with Robbie and Jeff. Everyday for three months we’d be in that fkn pool. Robbie and Jeff with their parents lived another part of Long Beach, but during the summer pretty-much lived at their grandparents. Bill was just another one of my grandparents. My parents were close to the Sims. Bill was a submariner in the US Navy. He was hardcore. He told me some gnarly WWII stories. My dad was a medic in the army during the Korean conflict. My dad witnessed some gnarly stuff. I used to see my dad and Bill hanging out talking across the street in outdoor chairs. My dad was upbeat funny guy. When Bill and my dad got together alone it was almost melancholy meeting. Id see them and wonder between them how much suffering and death they both witnessed. Bill was a character, he never wore shoes in the neighborhood, always wore an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt. Before moving to Long Beach, the Sims lived in Hawaii. Bill was still an island boy. When Robbie, Jeff and myself got older we drifted apart. Our Mid-late teens they no longer would stay at Bill and Sally’s. My priority became skateboarding and surfing and the friends doing the same close to home. Sally was born in Hawaii. I asked her years ago if she had a desire to go back and visit. She said “nooooooooooo. Hawaii isn’t they same.” A couple years after Bill passed the house across the street was sold, Sally moved to Idaho. I remember stopping in my tracks, i without warning I gave a moment of silence, with that lump in the heart feeling when my mom told me Sally had passed away. Sally took Robbie, Jeff and myself when we were about 10-11 years old to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. This is when Bill and sally would leave for Lundy Lake half the year. I believe they lived in that resort you spoke of. Mountain Biking Mammoth Mountain in the late 1990s I paid a visit to bill and Sally at their Lundy Lake camp. They were so happy to see me. I hung out with them one evening after mountain-biking. I didnt stay long. To this day I kick myself for not coming back before I left back to Long Beach. I told them I MIGHT come back the next day or before i left. Bill told me months later back in Long Beach they went out and bought a bunch of steaks to BBQ when I returned. I didnt think they’d mind if I stood them up. They were a bit hurt but laughed it off with me, saying it was OK. I still feel bad ha
Great video ! Love the old mining places .. the history . Imagine living up there w the snow and the brutal conditions mining gold.. people were way more tough back then! Thanks for the tour.. and risking your lungs! You’re the best tour guide !! 😊 You definitely earned that martini and steak!!
I’m a miner in big sky country and it’s wonderful to see you talking about mines not only do I look forward to seeing your beautiful face every episode, but very excited about the next story you are totally awesome and if you’re ever looking for great stories about mines in Montana. Look me up Tap’re Light.
On the mine site itself you're pretty safe from anything harmful. It was down by the wooden holding tanks that you don't want to go poking around the ground. The arsenic would have leached into the soil by now. As for the lake, yeah I'd just admire the view and keep my feet dry. But I'd love to dive the old town site! Thanks for trudging your way up to the mine Sarah. You earned that steak! And a martinini sounds pretty good right now 😋
We used to camp in the campground at the resort in the 80's and 90's and hiked up to the May Lundy mine once. That trail was a road but had a locked gate at the bottom. There were no WARNING signs at that time and people would backpack and camp up there. They even fished in the lakes up in that canyon.
Hmm, how many got cancer or some weird disease from that poisonous Lake, prolly a class action Lawsuit where the victims only rcvd a few bucks, and the Lawyers got the BIG BUCKS. Total BS!
JACKPOT! Beautiful and fascinating! Yeah, I'd definitely camp there! I just wouldn't lay on the ground or drink the water. Thank you for going all the way to the mine for us!
That definitely was a flywheel, that appeared to be attached to a steam engine at some point. The flywheel was attached to the generator for electrical power.
Wonderhussy you must be pretty well to do to afford going to all those places the destinations are so beautiful. Thank you for allowing us to enjoy them to your the greatest ❤
Doug Berry hiked to that mine, and beyond, about two months ago. There was a lot more snow on the ground which made it difficult to traverse the trail. Your vlogs are always soooo entertaining !
Another scenic and historic area shown and narrated by the Wonder Hussy. But also as the Wonder 'Hustle', because she puts out 104 videos a year, two every week and sometimes throws in a third video once in a while. And another 'nekkid' swim....take care and travel on !!
It never ceases to amaze me the effort people will go to dragging many tons of machinery up narrow trails in hope of making a fortune. Buying, transporting and setting it up before the first load of ore is extracted.
Loves dem mar-tonies too ; likes mine with dem olives stuffed with da Blue cheese, anchovies, or other thingies…. Enjoy (love ur wackie stuff u do). Be safe, stay healthy.
For those interested in a little more strenuous workout, the Lundy Lake trailhead, a couple miles past Lundy Lake, is an access point to a seldom traveled and beautiful part of northern Yosemite Park. Soldier Lake, Return Lake and upper Return Creek are worthy destinations if you have a few days and a backpack and wish to leave the crowds of Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne, and Saddlebag Lake behind. It doesn't have the arsenic problems.
I think the Lundy Falls trail is the one that goes in to Yosemite. If you get a back-country permit at the Bishop ranger station (and CA fire permit, if allowed), you are allowed into and out of Yosemite without additional fees, permits or a dreaded lottery.
I herd that alot of the roads in the serria Nevada have the same contamination problems. yes I would camp there. No fear what so ever here. Thanks wonder hussy!
Kudos for finding the narrow gauge RR tracks. One of the items at the top was a stationary steam engine for powering the mill. Another item was an ore car, minus its wheels. Great hike!
At around 21:30 you mentioned all that stuff was the big Kahuna and it is. That big flywheel with the interesting tube things is where the main steam engine powering everything sat. Those tube things are the remains of the steam pistons. Arms would have extended from there to the pin on the big wheel so the motion of the pistons spun the wheel. The stuff to the right of that are the various power take offs. Most likely each set of drums represented a single drive belt with the ability to shift it for different gears or to drive different machines.
The mill was complete until it was burned down either accidentally or by vandals in 1969. There are shafts and used to be additional structures near the top of the mountain at around 11,000 feet. The large wheel you found near the end was part of an aerial tramway that went to the upper workings.
Spent many vacations at Lundy with the family. My wife used to metal detect at the old town site. A friend of mine, his wife, and my daughter used to hike up to the old mine, and fish the lake above the mine called Onida. One of the "Pater Noster" lakes above the mine. His wife and my daughter would hike back to camp with our catch, and we would spend the night and catch another limit the next day. The fish were very hungry and would bite on any fly. The last time we were there, a Canadian company was opening up the mine. The workers were staying in one of the cabins. They would carry our backpacks up for us in their trucks but would not give us a ride. Made our hike a lot easier. I fished with an old guy [I'm old now] who knew a miner that worked the May Lundy mine. He would work a 10-hour shift, get a ride down to town and get drunk, sleep a couple of hours and back to work. Had to be tough in them days. The big wheel laying on the ground was a cable wheel for ore buckets. It carried the ore down to the stamp mill that is now laying on the ground. The Forest Service burned all the wooden structures years ago, so all that is left is the iron. Keep up the great videos, love to revisit old places I spent many years enjoying. ,
Howdy Ms Hussy! Loved watching your 250k Q&A just now...then I saw this newly released video. What a treat! Such a beautiful place. Thanks for doing the leg work. I know we all appreciate when you take us along. Thanks again. 😉
@@underthetornado it's actually not - this mine sits on private property, and arsenic is natural in nearly all mountain water anyways, there is no lead there - it's fake signs to keep people like you from camping there and trashing the place - and those signs work mostly.
The canyon west of the lake is filled with beautiful waterfalls. Also, the county maintains a campground nearby (leased from the power company). Nicer than most forest service camps, cheaper, and length of stay is not limited. Lundy is one of the most beautiful eastern sierra canyons.
The mining claim was patented private property until the late 1980’s, at that time the land owner did a land swap with the forest service for some more accessible land elsewhere. They also may have wanted to give it to the government to avoid having to clean it up. My sons AC me I spent two days there in the 1980’s. No warnings at that time, but no arsenic poisoning to this day.
What stunning footage! 🤩🥰😍 So beautiful!!! Thanks for taking us up there! Loved seeing the remains of the mining operation there too. I would have loved exploring around there myself. 😉
Breathtaking valley , shame it was exploited for minerals & contaminated, reminds me of the mountains of wales hollowed out to get the slate for roofing half the worlds houses. Thanks for taking us there WH.
Very much enjoyed the video. I have been to Lundy Canyon a couple times and looked up to where the old mining camp was but never had the chance to hike up. thanks for doing that and shooting an excellent video of the site. Now on my bucket list is a return to Lundy and hike that trail. Oh BTW the U shaped canyon is a classic glacier erosional feature. At one time Lundy canyon was filled with a glacier actually several times over the last 150,000 years.
Your videos have improved by orders of magnitude over the years - it's easy to tell that you put a LOT of work into staging, blocking shots, sound quality, and editing, not to mention selecting interesting places to shoot them. The result is videos that're worth the time it takes to watch them, and that leave the viewer with the feeling of having (virtually) been there! Nicely done. BTW, an N-95 dust mask should be sufficient for just walking around, if you were worried about inhaling toxic dust. Cheers.
She doesn’t read comments, so, you are wasting your time, claims she doesn’t have time to, although she hasn’t worked a job in many years! How long can she do this, she’s not getting any younger, what is she going to do when she cannot do this anymore, run out of $$, gets injured, climbing mountains in flip flops? Apparently, she doesn’t think about her future life, foolishly lives for the day?
@@Jeff-jg7jh I wouldn't expect her to read or reply. Comments help the channel's stats. If she publishes a particularly interesting episode, I'll comment on it and often hit the like button as well.
Our son and I hiked up to the mine about 10 years ago. I used to run trail ultras and the son is a fireman. Damn hard hike, worth every drop of sweat. Thanks for making this episode, loved it !
That very old old growth redwood that those tanks and bins are made out of is pretty cool. That’s a great video. Yeah I’d camp there. I’m pretty sure that Fukushima has radiated me more than any other toxic site in America so I’m not too worried. Great video.
Very sad story about the Lundy resort. Used to be pretty cool You are close to one of my favorite places Saddlebag lake which leads to the 20 lakes basin. Plus Log Cabin mine up the mountain a bit plus the awesome Mobil gas station 🤘🏼
Pretty cool place despite the toxicity. Once again, anything in the desert & the mountains is very interesting. Is there a degree that incorporates history & geography because if there is you have certainly earned one.
I would camp there it’s been long enough they get a lot of snow and rain the signs are really there just for your safety my dad was a miner and we played in all of the tailing and went swimming in the tanks around the mills I’m 70 years older and healthy
Gorgeous location and it is a shame it is so polluted with Hazardous materials. It is on the State list of most contaminated areas. Thank you for sharing your awesome adventure with us. Everyone stay safe, happy 😊 and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia
There's places like that in Colorado also. They look gorgeous but they're polluted as hell and superfund sites. The mining corporations just destroy it then declare bankruptcy.
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🥰🤩🥩🌸😜🌷Cledus&LulaBelle side hustled, Stanford& his minions, selling Arsenic, they married, moved to a gilded 3 story Sacramento mansion, had 4 children, LulaBelle, Founded the EPA..and all went to Heaven in a lil’ row boat..🎉😂 thanks Wonderhussy for a educational, exciting, fun,and majestic video😂
Hi Wonderhussy! Thanks for taking us to cool places. Im disabled now so I can only go to these places vicariously through you. Thanks!
I too visit these places mostly by internet while sitting on the couch... we are so fortunate to get a good look thanks to Wonderhussy. One amazing thing to ponder is this: there are hundreds and hundreds of places like this to hike/visit in the American West; I mean high alpine valleys that are a lush, interesting 'island world' in a vast desert sea. There are dozens in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and hundreds in the other states. Most have hiking trails and if you have an internet connection, a GPS phone/emergency beacon you too can drive to the nearest road approach, camp there and hike in! There are too many to run out.... not taking them for granted, but just saying there are so many that all of us can see them in some way.
I have been to Big Sky Montana, Alta in Utah, Death Valley in CA, Boulder and Steamboat Springs CO,, Glacier National in MT (road to the sun) to name a few; I'd love to see the Jackson Hole part of Wyoming and more isolated mountains in Nevada that are surrounded by desert and bypassed by the public... these are lush islands of beauty that anyone can get to and find peace.
You probably get tired of this kind of comments but I just look forward to your videos each week. It’s a nice break from all the politics and negativity going on in the world these days.
Me too!! 😃
-> Me, Three!! Ditto!! Also, love the humor, which cracks me up, at times, & "Laughter is the best medicine", the well-known publication Reader's Digest says!! 😄 Love learning, & seeing New places, & the old places that our teacher & Army Dad used to take us to.. 🏜️🌅🏞️ Divine Angelic Safeguarding, & Many Abundant Blessings, ALL!! 😻🙇🏻♀️🙏🏼🕊️👼🏻🌻🌄⛅🌤️
Couldn’t agree more!! Stuck at home often homework/armchair research! Wonderhussy the perfect instant getaway - especially when I can’t getaway!
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Me also
I love the underlying humor in every sentence you deliver. Great video as always.
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Love your content , Wandering Jeepsy shouted you out in her recent video for helping her in her time of need. Good on you.
When i was 6-7 this guy across the street picked me up and threw me into his swimming pool. I could not swim. This guy across the street was at Peal Harbor December 7, 1941. Shooting at the planes with his rifle from his barracks he said the Japanese planes were low enough you could easily see the pilots. Half the year, during warmer months, him and his wife Sally, lived in a camper at Lundy Lake. The rest of the year Bill Sims and Sally lived across the street from me here in Long Beach Ca. Bill passed away in about 2003.
I wore a Hawaiian shirt to his memorial service in Anaheim Hills. Before the service I went surfing. Sally was born in Hawaii. Bill and Sally got married a short time before Pearl Harbor was attacked. Bill told a couple years before died, “Mike as soon I could afford to buy shoes, I left Tennessee.” Bill knew every fishing hole in the eastern Sierra Nevada’s. He loaded gunpowder into homemade bullets for his many rifles(which were stollen in broad daylight from his house[he never replaced]).
Growing up his grandkids were my best friends since in diapers. I learned to swim. During the summer I lived in the pool he threw me in, with Robbie and Jeff. Everyday for three months we’d be in that fkn pool. Robbie and Jeff with their parents lived another part of Long Beach, but during the summer pretty-much lived at their grandparents. Bill was just another one of my grandparents. My parents were close to the Sims.
Bill was a submariner in the US Navy. He was hardcore. He told me some gnarly WWII stories. My dad was a medic in the army during the Korean conflict. My dad witnessed some gnarly stuff. I used to see my dad and Bill hanging out talking across the street in outdoor chairs. My dad was upbeat funny guy. When Bill and my dad got together alone it was almost melancholy meeting. Id see them and wonder between them how much suffering and death they both witnessed.
Bill was a character, he never wore shoes in the neighborhood, always wore an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt. Before moving to Long Beach, the Sims lived in Hawaii. Bill was still an island boy. When Robbie, Jeff and myself got older we drifted apart. Our Mid-late teens they no longer would stay at Bill and Sally’s. My priority became skateboarding and surfing and the friends doing the same close to home.
Sally was born in Hawaii. I asked her years ago if she had a desire to go back and visit. She said “nooooooooooo. Hawaii isn’t they same.” A couple years after Bill passed the house across the street was sold, Sally moved to Idaho. I remember stopping in my tracks, i without warning I gave a moment of silence, with that lump in the heart feeling when my mom told me Sally had passed away. Sally took Robbie, Jeff and myself when we were about 10-11 years old to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
This is when Bill and sally would leave for Lundy Lake half the year. I believe they lived in that resort you spoke of. Mountain Biking Mammoth Mountain in the late 1990s I paid a visit to bill and Sally at their Lundy Lake camp. They were so happy to see me. I hung out with them one evening after mountain-biking. I didnt stay long. To this day I kick myself for not coming back before I left back to Long Beach. I told them I MIGHT come back the next day or before i left. Bill told me months later back in Long Beach they went out and bought a bunch of steaks to BBQ when I returned. I didnt think they’d mind if I stood them up. They were a bit hurt but laughed it off with me, saying it was OK. I still feel bad ha
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Been with you for years, keep up the travels and I'll try to keep up with you.
In that area, you probably need to avoid becoming bear food more than avoiding the chemical hazards!
Lots of gold teeth back then. Was always fascinated at my Grandpa’s gold teeth
Wow! I can't believe how adventurous and brave you are. Hiking up that mountain to a toxic old gold mine. Amazing!
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Well done Wonderhussy brilliant as always looking good cheers
The arsenic and lead are probably from the mountain itself
exactly!
Oh my gosh, my friends and I backpacked up there over 40 years ago. Crazy!!!!
I have friends who are finding lots gold in old mining camps . So look around you might find a nuget size of once. Last years snow caused big washes.
Hi Sarah another good video a good mine it does look interesting glad you got a skinny dip in Takecare
20:28
I would have had to see every last piece of that rusty old iron.
The "Gear" at a little after 20:00 looks like one of the wheels for a Tramway.
Great video !
Love the old mining places .. the history . Imagine living up there w the snow and the brutal conditions mining gold.. people were way more tough back then!
Thanks for the tour.. and risking your lungs! You’re the best tour guide !! 😊 You definitely earned that martini and steak!!
You had me LMAO with the yarn about Cletus and Lula Mae!👅🤙♥️🎂😊
Thanks for the journey..
Gorgeous scenery compliments a gorgeous hussie❤
Beautiful, Love your Gears,,,,,,,,,
I have heard that wearing protective clothing, notably old lace, protects the wearer from arsenic.
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Good one, LOL
❤ love your videos about your discoveries and the facts and info shared, thank you
I’m a miner in big sky country and it’s wonderful to see you talking about mines not only do I look forward to seeing your beautiful face every episode, but very excited about the next story you are totally awesome and if you’re ever looking for great stories about mines in Montana. Look me up Tap’re Light.
That was so many years ago that the toxic crap has mostly been washed by the rains and weather.
On the mine site itself you're pretty safe from anything harmful. It was down by the wooden holding tanks that you don't want to go poking around the ground. The arsenic would have leached into the soil by now. As for the lake, yeah I'd just admire the view and keep my feet dry. But I'd love to dive the old town site! Thanks for trudging your way up to the mine Sarah. You earned that steak! And a martinini sounds pretty good right now 😋
Good chance the entire creek leading down to Lundy Lake is contaminated, too.
Of all the great vids I get to enjoy on Utube, you are the cherry on the very top. What a spirit !
You are a true Wonder. My love is true.
I think it's great that you're doing video on Wed and Thurs, you're not as rushed and it shows. Keep up the good work and hope your having fun too.
telephone was the internet of the day back then/ a pic of my grandfather with horses in 1906 showed phone lines in the back ground .
What a nice bit of history in a beautiful location. Too bad it was to toxic but that’s life and the way of the world back then.
I would love to have some of that old wreckage in my yard as yard art… I love that kind of stuff!!
THANKS!
We used to camp in the campground at the resort in the 80's and 90's and hiked up to the May Lundy mine once. That trail was a road but had a locked gate at the bottom. There were no WARNING signs at that time and people would backpack and camp up there. They even fished in the lakes up in that canyon.
Their is a lake above the contaminated lake and fishing there is fine because it’s upstream.
Hmm, how many got cancer or some weird disease from that poisonous Lake, prolly a class action Lawsuit where the victims only rcvd a few bucks, and the Lawyers got the BIG BUCKS. Total BS!
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Loved the outro Babe😍
Yup, you found the main haulage adit and the mill site. The crankshaft for the stamps was laying on the ground. Good job!
Another great WH video. Safe travels.
Nothing like the beauty of the high Sierra's.Fell in love with Bishop many many years ago.🥰⛺
Great mountain-goat hike WH! :-)
Cool to see so much machinery still around.
Love you videos, it’s like going on a new adventure every day.😊
JACKPOT! Beautiful and fascinating! Yeah, I'd definitely camp there! I just wouldn't lay on the ground or drink the water. Thank you for going all the way to the mine for us!
That definitely was a flywheel, that appeared to be attached to a steam engine at some point. The flywheel was attached to the generator for electrical power.
Actually I think that flywheel belongs to an air compressor
Wonderhussy you must be pretty well to do to afford going to all those places the destinations are so beautiful. Thank you for allowing us to enjoy them to your the greatest ❤
Doug Berry hiked to that mine, and beyond, about two months ago. There was a lot more snow on the ground which made it difficult to traverse the trail. Your vlogs are always soooo entertaining !
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Another scenic and historic area shown and narrated by the Wonder Hussy. But also as the Wonder 'Hustle', because she puts out 104 videos a year, two every week and sometimes throws in a third video once in a while. And another 'nekkid' swim....take care and travel on !!
Whats wrong with monetizing video content. She needs to make a living. I'd rather watch WH's content than mainstream crap any day.
@@highcurrent1125 Huh ??....I agree with you.
It never ceases to amaze me the effort people will go to dragging many tons of machinery up narrow trails in hope of making a fortune. Buying, transporting and setting it up before the first load of ore is extracted.
Nice! Steak n Martinis! Yum
And she won't have to hold her nose while enjoying those! 🥩🍸How she always has at least one thing that makes me burst out laughing I'll never know.
What a beautful place! Thank you for showing it for us.
Loves dem mar-tonies too ; likes mine with dem olives stuffed with da
Blue cheese, anchovies, or other thingies…. Enjoy (love ur wackie stuff u do). Be safe, stay healthy.
The arsenic and lead was probably naturally occurring with the gold ore and left behind by the milling process. Arsenic is often found in gold ores.
For those interested in a little more strenuous workout, the Lundy Lake trailhead, a couple miles past Lundy Lake, is an access point to a seldom traveled and beautiful part of northern Yosemite Park. Soldier Lake, Return Lake and upper Return Creek are worthy destinations if you have a few days and a backpack and wish to leave the crowds of Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne, and Saddlebag Lake behind. It doesn't have the arsenic problems.
You know, I tried looking up those lakes and it looks like Soldier and Return Lakes are more in the vicinity of Lone Pine, rather than Lundy.
I think the Lundy Falls trail is the one that goes in to Yosemite. If you get a back-country permit at the Bishop ranger station (and CA fire permit, if allowed), you are allowed into and out of Yosemite without additional fees, permits or a dreaded lottery.
I herd that alot of the roads in the serria Nevada have the same contamination problems. yes I would camp there. No fear what so ever here. Thanks wonder hussy!
Love ❤️ your tales. Hope Cletus and Lulabelle married and had a wonderful life. Thanks Wonderhussy. Stay well Sarah.
Kudos for finding the narrow gauge RR tracks. One of the items at the top was a stationary steam engine for powering the mill. Another item was an ore car, minus its wheels. Great hike!
At around 21:30 you mentioned all that stuff was the big Kahuna and it is. That big flywheel with the interesting tube things is where the main steam engine powering everything sat. Those tube things are the remains of the steam pistons. Arms would have extended from there to the pin on the big wheel so the motion of the pistons spun the wheel. The stuff to the right of that are the various power take offs. Most likely each set of drums represented a single drive belt with the ability to shift it for different gears or to drive different machines.
The mill was complete until it was burned down either accidentally or by vandals in 1969. There are shafts and used to be additional structures near the top of the mountain at around 11,000 feet. The large wheel you found near the end was part of an aerial tramway that went to the upper workings.
...so some of the mine's history may stretch into realatively modern times it sounds like. I think some of it is torn apart by snow avalanches
The snow in September is mind-boggling.
Fabulous share!
Spent many vacations at Lundy with the family. My wife used to metal detect at the old town site. A friend of mine, his wife, and my daughter used to hike up to the old mine, and fish the lake above the mine called Onida. One of the "Pater Noster" lakes above the mine. His wife and my daughter would hike back to camp with our catch, and we would spend the night and catch another limit the next day. The fish were very hungry and would bite on any fly. The last time we were there, a Canadian company was opening up the mine. The workers were staying in one of the cabins. They would carry our backpacks up for us in their trucks but would not give us a ride. Made our hike a lot easier. I fished with an old guy [I'm old now] who knew a miner that worked the May Lundy mine. He would work a 10-hour shift, get a ride down to town and get drunk, sleep a couple of hours and back to work. Had to be tough in them days. The big wheel laying on the ground was a cable wheel for ore buckets. It carried the ore down to the stamp mill that is now laying on the ground. The Forest Service burned all the wooden structures years ago, so all that is left is the iron.
Keep up the great videos, love to revisit old places I spent many years enjoying.
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I believe “Rosa May” was Bodie’s famous lady of the night.
Howdy Ms Hussy! Loved watching your 250k Q&A just now...then I saw this newly released video. What a treat! Such a beautiful place. Thanks for doing the leg work. I know we all appreciate when you take us along. Thanks again. 😉
Absolutely I would camp and swim there its just California trying to scare us.
The pollution from these old mines is quite real I assure you❤
@@underthetornado it's actually not - this mine sits on private property, and arsenic is natural in nearly all mountain water anyways, there is no lead there - it's fake signs to keep people like you from camping there and trashing the place - and those signs work mostly.
@@AUMINER1 I agree with you here, but the arsenic blowing into the air around Lone Pine from Owens lake is a real cancer threat.
@@quailshootr6389 yes, arsenic is a problem, airborn and getting into the food supply. bad stuff.
Several years ago, the entrance to the Lundy May Mine tunnel was dynamited to prevent people going in.
The "junk" is a twin cylinder steam engine with its associated boilers. To you junk, to me a great piece of industrial heritage.
The canyon west of the lake is filled with beautiful waterfalls. Also, the county maintains a campground nearby (leased from the power company). Nicer than most forest service camps, cheaper, and length of stay is not limited. Lundy is one of the most beautiful eastern sierra canyons.
The mining claim was patented private property until the late 1980’s, at that time the land owner did a land swap with the forest service for some more accessible land elsewhere. They also may have wanted to give it to the government to avoid having to clean it up. My sons AC me I spent two days there in the 1980’s. No warnings at that time, but no arsenic poisoning to this day.
Great trip to the past.. be safe with some fun thrown in !!!!!!
Have a great day
What stunning footage! 🤩🥰😍 So beautiful!!! Thanks for taking us up there! Loved seeing the remains of the mining operation there too. I would have loved exploring around there myself. 😉
That’s a very cool site. I’d visit it, but the warning signs would deter me from wanting to camp there.
I'd totally camp up there. Just would be careful what I touched on the ground. It's indeed a beautiful place and I love exploring our historic past .
Breathtaking valley , shame it was exploited for minerals & contaminated, reminds me of the mountains of wales hollowed out to get the slate for roofing half the worlds houses. Thanks for taking us there WH.
COOL THANK YOU!!😊❤️
Very much enjoyed the video. I have been to Lundy Canyon a couple times and looked up to where the old mining camp was but never had the chance to hike up. thanks for doing that and shooting an excellent video of the site. Now on my bucket list is a return to Lundy and hike that trail. Oh BTW the U shaped canyon is a classic glacier erosional feature. At one time Lundy canyon was filled with a glacier actually several times over the last 150,000 years.
Beautiful views!
Mine adventure from the wonderhussy
Your videos have improved by orders of magnitude over the years - it's easy to tell that you put a LOT of work into staging, blocking shots, sound quality, and editing, not to mention selecting interesting places to shoot them. The result is videos that're worth the time it takes to watch them, and that leave the viewer with the feeling of having (virtually) been there! Nicely done. BTW, an N-95 dust mask should be sufficient for just walking around, if you were worried about inhaling toxic dust. Cheers.
The video is totally bright and crisp.
She doesn’t read comments, so, you are wasting your time, claims she doesn’t have time to, although she hasn’t worked a job in many years! How long can she do this, she’s not getting any younger, what is she going to do when she cannot do this anymore, run out of $$, gets injured, climbing mountains in flip flops? Apparently, she doesn’t think about her future life, foolishly lives for the day?
@@Jeff-jg7jh I wouldn't expect her to read or reply. Comments help the channel's stats. If she publishes a particularly interesting episode, I'll comment on it and often hit the like button as well.
Love your videos! Thanks!
Our son and I hiked up to the mine about 10 years ago. I used to run trail ultras and the son is a fireman. Damn hard hike, worth every drop of sweat. Thanks for making this episode, loved it !
California, has so much natural beauty all over and so many different topographies. So much to explore!
Thanks for the video people .
That very old old growth redwood that those tanks and bins are made out of is pretty cool. That’s a great video. Yeah I’d camp there. I’m pretty sure that Fukushima has radiated me more than any other toxic site in America so I’m not too worried. Great video.
Remember that phone booth in the middle of the Mojave, maybe should a brought some canaries? lol
Yes
Very sad story about the Lundy resort. Used to be pretty cool
You are close to one of my favorite places Saddlebag lake which leads to the 20 lakes basin.
Plus Log Cabin mine up the mountain a bit plus the awesome Mobil gas station 🤘🏼
Pretty cool place despite the toxicity. Once again, anything in the desert & the mountains is very interesting. Is there a degree that incorporates history & geography because if there is you have certainly earned one.
That's an amazing place. Thank you for sharing.
damn I just realized that you must do sooo much time in editing.. much apriciate your adventures and work .
I would camp there it’s been long enough they get a lot of snow and rain the signs are really there just for your safety my dad was a miner and we played in all of the tailing and went swimming in the tanks around the mills I’m 70 years older and healthy
Keep up the good work
Gorgeous location and it is a shame it is so polluted with Hazardous materials. It is on the State list of most contaminated areas. Thank you for sharing your awesome adventure with us. Everyone stay safe, happy 😊 and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia
There's places like that in Colorado also. They look gorgeous but they're polluted as hell and superfund sites. The mining corporations just destroy it then declare bankruptcy.
YOU ARE BETTER THAN THE BEST SWEETHEART. PLUS YOU HAVE THE COURAGE SEEK OUT DANGEROUS ADVENTURES.. .GODSPEED WONDERHUSSY, YOU ARE A NATIONAL TREASURE SWEETHEART ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
🥰🤩🥩🌸😜🌷Cledus&LulaBelle side hustled, Stanford& his minions, selling Arsenic, they married, moved to a gilded 3 story Sacramento mansion, had 4 children, LulaBelle, Founded the EPA..and all went to
Heaven in a lil’ row boat..🎉😂 thanks Wonderhussy for a educational, exciting, fun,and majestic video😂
Your content is so much better than Netflix. I'm getting ad free You Tube and cancelling Netflix lol❤❤
done that Hike a few times a great hike and the Mine is cool lots of old Machines.