Abandoned Cabins - Which Could Save Your Life

this is tantamount to why we always say you never know what's up those forgotten roads or old canyons we have found this pretty remarkable so the only thing i know about this place is it was an old miner's cabin back in the day right um we're not going to give out the location of this for obvious reasons yeah because this looks to be in great shape what to look at first i've noticed there's also a cross on the top of the hill so maybe a grave want to do the bus bus first now that's kind of a sizable vehicle to be bringing all the way up here i mean even when the road was maintained back then it is tight quarters oh and it's a shame that there's so many bullet holes completely gutted inside see there was a stove so i'm wondering if this was like a schooly bus yeah back in the day the stove seats this is really cool this is so shamed so much if it's been gutted i know it's got a cool and the rust looks really neat the way that you know nature's done that the bullet holes are and you've got a bench there for people to sit this is really neat okay shall we see what that cross is yeah okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] so on our way up to check out the cross there's this wire around the boulder it's going to be kind of hard to make out but it does make its way up the mountain a little ways if i can pull it right in the center of your screen that rock right there looks like it's a a seat the other end just goes there so what would that be for please let us know here we are we've made it up to the cross don't know the uh significance it's not a doesn't appear to be a grave marker or maybe ashes could be strange though isn't it curious it is but it does have a very nice view over the valley behind the cross is a old water container it's been sitting here for a while it's empty it's hollow we can tell by the the knocks on it [Music] nothing in there you can see the cross in the distance and just right there you can kind of see the outline of rocks it's flattened out so it does appear that there was some sort of small structure there at one point and now for the cabin this looks to be quite new yeah the outside is in very good shape so the volunteers have done really really well looking after this one i'll let you go in first oh wow look at that just a single room it almost reminds me of like a garage a shed just with the the way it's been built yeah the little man cave area she got a kitchen sink which is a bit disgusting uh you have to fill that close the lid and replace the wood piece to keep the mice out so that's for the water nice i'm not going to open it and then mouse proof lock this door inside first oh it looks like a mouse he has got in there's a little bit of stuff in there yeah a couple of cans of food water jug cups some cutlery enough to get you through for a meal oh yeah i mean if you were stranded for a couple of days okay and then a nice wood burning stove and as you can see the floor is has been recently swept it's uh really clean dare i open the bread bin yeah oh my gosh oh there's a lot of that i knew there must be a log book here somewhere not the newest one looks like it oh no 2021. 2022 here we go he spent the night set to traps he got the mouse good on ya right okay and no trip would be complete without a trip to the loo hey that's my line oh i didn't see you standing there is it usable well i think what people have done is they do their poo poops and then they just shovel over the top so it's not like a it's fine it's totally clean huh [Music] yeah so this cabin was built in the 1930s by a miner who had a claim nearby and it's right by a spring okay and today it's used by the park service it's always fully stocked and by campers who want to spend the night but they do have to fly the flag so when the flag is flying it means that somebody is in residence right that's the golden rule of these because people don't always give out the location but to know that somebody is here you fly the flag to know it's occupied off to the next cabin yeah if there is one if not then you got to sleep outside man this one's pretty neat this one is pretty much rodent proof although i have seen a couple of holes yeah look there is a sign here they do have a rock over the sink it says mice will enter through the drain so please keep it plugged yeah and then when you've stayed in the cabin obviously you you keep it cleaner than when you found it so sweep it if you've had a fire clean the fire out and also leave some food behind non-perishable foods you've got loads of tins oh yeah and there's also a box here which is mouse proof and it's got lots of packaged stuff beans and coffee and crackers our favorite type ramen so so a pinch if you were stranded it would save your life absolutely and again this is just you know i love the upkeep i love uh love the service the volunteers are performing here and can you imagine living out here right out in the middle of nowhere back in the 1930s pretty desolate so they didn't have the mobile phones or tv or anything out here yesterday let's face it we still don't have phones out here exactly exactly nice chairs and table though look at this solid okay that about does it huh this looks like it's going to be quite the cabin to explore this is another one of those little gems out in the middle of nowhere that we're not going to disclose the location due to continuous vandalism and we've been asked to keep this location a secret so although i do know the history about this place the only thing i'm going to say is it is a minus cabin and it dates back the area dates back to the late 1800s and the early 1900s let's take a look [Applause] oh yeah nice solid floors there's a couple bunks a desk and there is a um there's quite a heartfelt letter that was written in here by those that are coming up to take care of this cabin and uh they do ask very very kindly as well anybody that comes up here enjoys this and posts it on social media just please don't give out the location or the gps yeah we've been very very careful not to film the surrounding areas as well the the hills because we don't want to give out the location at all yeah and it is unfortunate that we have to do that because some people out there just you know choose to destroy things that don't belong to them and they have no reason or right to or steal artifacts yes that's another one that's dirt floor so this cabin looks like it's been built on and built on and built on so the original cabin i would say was a single cabin and then it's had additions built on now i don't know whether or not mice might be in here hair off to the up over it looks like mice have got in there yeah toilet papers are chewed up yeah because they're slippery little suckers and they can get in any tiny hole as we know that's neat canned corn that looks like it's been up here for 18 hours i like the pork tin too yeah there's a little bit of rat poop yeah there is in there and also you see here on the table these rolled newspaper that they've stapled down to the the countertop here that's cool can you oh there might be a date on this one i don't know i can't see that because of the night to really get back in there how do you stick my head back up in there it's april of 1964 which is gonna be i can't fit the camera back in there so sorry and people have picked up bits of crockery and put that down okay what is that's just in i should know don't know what that is actually it looks like a kind of sun kind of like a warmer one of those warmers that you put coals in okay and then uh that's pretty much it in there [Music] i wrestle the kitchen here the pots and pans hanging from the ceiling one of each and the kettle and the fridge do not store perishables in here oh wow but if you've got people have been leaving water and snacks and a uh a drill battery well well you never know yeah nice that's pretty stocked and over here we got uh well those cans have been out here for a little bit they've actually uh all kind of exploded in the heat so some baked beans some tools to help repair which is nice nice touch and the rest of the kitchen there now with these volunteer cabins you cut you are welcome to stay here and what what you do is you fly the flag and that notifies people that the cabin is occupied and then when you leave you take down the flag and fold it up now when we came the flag was all in a mess so stephen very kindly folded it up correctly unfortunately it's in better days this fireplace is amazing it's the detail on the sides is so intricate it's unreal and a family owned this for quite some time and they still come up here to maintain it which is why they ask to keep it a secret and then the little kitchen area so again i look it looks like this was an add-on yeah definitely but i mean if you were stranded out in the middle of nowhere and the blazing heat or if you got caught in a storm it could save your life oh absolutely i mean it's pretty warm today i think it's 80. so uh it feels a lot better in here out of the out of the sun lots of different books to read a little bit of patricia cornwell um some north america books i've got a bit of everything here really puzzles flora and fauna gerald daryl you'll notice the cassettes there is a cassette player on the table you may have noticed with some batteries i wonder if that still works now gerald durrell he i believe owned the zoo in jersey which is part of the channel islands just off the united kingdom between the uk and france gerald durrell here we are it's uh upside down hiding behind a bush but what is it can't really uh find any distinguishing features the bonnets over here okay that's right side up missing the emblem very neat car it's actually i mean minus the bullet holes the body's fairly straight i mean it's in better condition than you would think for it being upside down way out in the middle of nowhere [Music] you