Exploring Historic Abandoned Mining Camps

continuing on with our adventure we found another mountain range nice little fire pit there and yet again we found another cabin yeah this cabin's got a a marker as well herschel and beecher nap to 1971-95 i don't know what that is all about this is a registered mining claim so no other prospectors are allowed according to this sign but there's no claim holder or claim number hmm so yeah you don't know what a mining claim states there you go and we'll take a peek inside the cabin yeah i'm not going to uh get up on here because it's too rotted but i would not either there's a bed frame to the left i mean there's not a great deal in it it's kind of like a trailer more than anything just one one room tons of mold up in that uh ceiling there you've got a little shelf a couple windows two doors and a flag on the ground and a book that's a shame i don't know what the book is now the flag they used to put they put those in uh volunteer cabins so if you're staying there you put the american flag out so let people know that's right but i don't think this was ever a volunteer cabin okay let's poke around some more next item now would you call that a f that's not a flatbed truck is it that was a dump truck just a dump truck okay but the uh as you can see it's in a little bit of disrepair chefey chevy if the engine was still in there it is is it bet you change the spark plugs put some new oil in it and that would turn over love that patina on there it's really cute isn't it okay that's a chick talking about vehicles yeah cause i was just cute probably not the term i would have used it kind of reminds me of um the cars movie the animation all right there we go there's a stick shift there's the levers to dump your material dump the bucket you can see the uh seat all completely all the foam's gone from there filled in with pine cones more than likely rats see if you can get a better look here in the engine compartment you know the sun glare maybe we'll try from the other side i can't really get a good view in there i'm not sure if that'll still open oh will it i'll hold it there you go and there you have it looks like uh is that a straight six really cool even a lot of the wiring harness is still the plug wires that's really cool to see radiator's gone and of course you need somewhere to go to the bathroom see the bottom is all exposed there [Applause] just a normal toilet but it does have a seat that is an extra bonus it is indeed but no toilet paper but it looks like the rats have been using it more than humans as you can see just past the bushes that was the little cabin we were just at on the other side of the road you may see some 55 gallon barrels over there and midway plaster mine that sound you can hear is the corrugated metal flapping in the breeze now this mine does have a mining claim with a name no date but it does have a name with some claim numbers nice hummingbird wanting to get in the shot and i've noticed uh there's a skeleton is there mm-hmm just around here oh i see [Applause] could be uh a cow cow hummingbird very friendly the hummingbird i was talking about and that's a bad angle to have come up my shadow in the whole shot yeah so part of the rib cage it's been out here for quite some time it's very bleached by the sun starting over here just uh got some benches work benches place some things on in there nice windows we'll go over and check that out in a minute there's a lot to see in here these this looks like this could have been old washing machine or something that they've converted looks like an old heater or something and more parts that have been placed back up on here they've been scattered all over the ground that's bolt screws washers radiator caps looks like that could be a core sample and here's the fun stuff so it looks like on top start up here some type of a shaker to get the material they want to fall down through that grate the rest tip the bucket let it fall so the ore thereafter would be collected in this bin sift through down to these mechanisms possibly into here at one point follow it down and maybe at one point in time the the dump truck was sitting down there filled up with good stuff another little shot of the mill operation there we've walked over that's where all those barrels were got some more miscellaneous bits and pieces like an old lawnmower engine go-kart engine it's like a little miller's camp we've got a little chair sitting out here few old tires there's another chair it's all broken um couple old shoots lots of wood debris lying under the tree uh here's an old ladder an old wood ladder like the miners used to use put some corrugated metal over there just beyond last little bit on this site this whole truck trailer which it looks like they used for their parts welding grounds electrodes air hoses very cool all right and that's going to do it for this little site we are continuing to make discoveries on these forgotten mountain roads let's get a closer look it's always amazing what you end up finding out in the middle of nowhere i like this camper it is still in really good shape all things considering but the last it's a 1956 model but the fees expired back in 2012. and here it sits so where did the owner go very strange then here is that wonderful stone cabin unfortunately the roof is now on the floor and on the back wall this would have been really cool to see we got a room back there see if i can find a safe way to get to it here's what is in the back room taking floor carpeting and put them all over the walls i guess that's a good way to insulate i got more carpeting tons of rat poo and trash and things on the floor so that there has that little back room where we're just in and this is completely trashed yeah trashed maybe a workshop i don't know i guess that's possible now you see that back door the door at the back there's something behind there let's take a look was that a mine no it's a little storage uh cold storage but what is bizarre is if you look up it looks like two bird perches so would they have put a piece of wood up there and used it as like a hanging shelf ah that's that's a possibility i don't know what else those would be used for and then to the left you can see where there were drawers and shelves so i think this was cold storage i think you're right there is a ventilation shaft with a vent out and the facilities it used to have a seat on it i hope it used to have a back wall and a door as well the remains of the back wall are behind me okay just a little further along the road there's another cabin [Applause] there's a lot of a lot of damage inside here clothes boxes some shoes paint cans magazines is there a date saturday march 5th 1977. oh wow old school cabinets in the corner there some old denim and a shirt there's an old tin up here if you step in oh that's cool looks to be like this is the front door and i guess we're walking into the kitchen diner bunch more newspapers magazines [Applause] wednesday october 24th nine it's a little newer this one's 1990. scattered all throughout if they were using those for collecting them and using them as a insulation in the walls as you see they got cardboard up so i take it this could have been the uh well there's a vent for a stove so i was gonna say a bedroom but perhaps living room area well you've got a back door so i wouldn't have thought you'd have a stove and a back door in a bedroom yeah you've also got a stove in this in the corner here right because this looks like it would have been the kitchen because of the i would say this was the kitchen maybe they did have a stove in the bedroom very strange they also had some sort of patio area or closed-in porch which is now all dilapidated there's the door one of the walls another wall here so it wasn't completely enclosed just partial here's the back of the property see that porch there's a few walls that are collapsed come around back can hear the sound of water just very faintly off in this direction let's see if we can track it down oh before we go that direction here we go here's the stream yep right on it continues this direction and i could hear it going through a little pipe or something down over that direction so we'll try and cross over here's more of the stream and uh probably not used to bathing i should certainly hope not but i would agree because it does look like prospecting there's prospecting equipment here this box you see that they're like a little shaker box that pan is that how they fossak that's how that's what it's called isn't it fossa king when you pan for gold or panning honey easy name given to it but the stream's quite wide in this point it's a lot of water the last piece to this little place is this homemade oh that's a stove something for the mining or something cool to hang around with in the evenings with a nice drink now this one looks like a luxury cabin i had a fence all the way around it nice porch [Music] you