Continuing our Search - Abandoned Mining Camps

hello everyone it is stephen and andrea from pin in the atlas today we're continuing our explorer with our friends dustin and lori we're up high in the mountains you can see some remnants of a few items here like this needled couch and something else pretty special so on our explorer for looking for a particular miners cabin we've come across this let's explore i just thought i'd clean the house for you okay make sure it's nice and presentable oops pretty sturdy i don't know what that would have been there's some change to help fix it up but take a look at this an old i'd say like a vanity box that's just been left here it's pretty say taper light and an old can very old can how it's been punctured some more cans down there now on the top here it says silver queen something rather is that plans assess something work has been done oh assessment work has been done and recorded for the year 1977 1978 by the owner so that's pretty neat on table as a desk there was a a drawer in there at one point looks like and the calendar that's on the floor says december 19 1978 so that lines up there's some more calendars and things back there it also has a 1980 there's a newspaper back there in the corner let me see if i can't see dates on that kool-aid box this one if i can find a date on the newspaper without touching too much pipe insulation 1.50 no no dates that i can see on there should be somewhere around the top corner top corner's been eaten yeah now look at their still canvas lining the roof marion johnson june 1964. there's a 71 back there pat and judy and a 78 down here an oven mitt right there [Music] and this would have been the bedroom oh and then an old pepper salt or pepper tin shoe got a wing mirror right there not sure what this is into the bedroom old mattress spring there see a lot of canvas still on the walls complete bed frame two mattresses there and we'll walk around the perimeter see what other kind of gems we find outside here look at that tin's from los angeles it's an old texaco bucket container boy that has seen some weathering so nice little setup though very very small very humble does the job interesting an old chair there's some more debris back over here somebody's made a fire pit camping spot [Applause] another mattress spring looks like the top to uh an exhaust port this could have been another there's windows this could have been another small structure hiked up a little further continuing on the road here's some old barrels large old pipe could have been a water container four you know it's starting to snow lucky us but you can see andrew's walking over to some tailings so there's a mine up there so not far from those two cabins we found a mine so we're just going to venture in a little way just standing at the entrance here the air is really bad i can smell it just at the entrance so for safety purposes we're not going to venture in very far our friends are outside so let's just take a quick look does have the rail tracks oh the other rails are intact oh and uh yep they could have hung uh f like perfectly yeah judging yeah because the air is really bad so they would we're not in 20 feet in the air yeah we can taste it it's uh yeah it's not real good we're not going to go very far at all you've got an old [Applause] tar bin now that dead end is just there you can see the face you can see the face and they started to backfill it and the rail stops there too we have checked around there are no animal droppings there's no footprints there's no collapsing oh but there is this an animal skull and jaw bones and teeth you can actually see the teeth so i wonder what that was oh there's bones here in the rail and some more there i'm going to shine up you can see this goes on it goes way back and the rail is intact right the way through and i will just show you this [Applause] you can see it continues we're not going to go any further for safety purposes but look on the ceiling here moisture and crystals it's really pretty shimmering and that's it for our explore for a mine because as i said we don't want to get venturing too far and i think is that damp on the floor as well yeah and that's part of with the rail the wood's starting to rot so we would leave this for the professionals yep i'm so cold i can't even say the word may be able to see the snow is coming down really well first time we've ever filmed in snow but look at what else we found an entire little encampment we'll go into this building first as you can see here it's like a nice screened in porch some of the screen still here some of it's been cut out or torn away all sorts of different types of wood there's a glass window at one point so this must been an add-on later and here we go small bed frame stove was right there to to get started to catch that wood on fire oh and a snowflake just came through the vent pipe opening a little cart over there some bunks this bunk the top bunk has been made out of a door you can see the hinges oh yeah [Music] use what you got and look at this this is pretty neat the window flipped up got a latch there to keep it open get a nice breeze through well i'm sure when the stove was in here and they turned it on it got nice and toasty real quick so so quick that it caught the place on fire some washing up liquid or liquid detergent very cool oh and you can see in the ceiling which is still in really good shape there was electricity so go into the next one okay i don't know if this was another add-on later put some walls up or yeah i think it was with this one we won't be able to get in the front it's just a single room though these are still in really good shape all things considered love that door i'll show you why we can't get into the front the decking has all collapsed so we'll head over to the last building [Applause] over to the right there was a triple out house at some point that's blown down see the three holes yep so you can get nice and cozy with your fellow miners this one's up on stilts level it out okay so yeah how's it feel slippery well this looks like some volunteers have come in because there's some uh or maybe some hunters there's some water oh wow a stove some propane there's that three four cases of water yeah and then a couple of half cases the fireplace in the middle with the barrel it's got ash in it and the bedroom along the back i don't know if it's coming out on camera too well but there's a little bit of a fun house effect with the floors and the walls i'm just checking to make sure the floorboards are okay there is a lot of uh rodent droppings matter mouse matter and that matter a little soft there yeah yeah two beds and a huge rat nest okay so i wonder what date there's another trick on the bottle if you see on the floor you see where they meet there's a joist there that's going to be the strongest point to walk can you see if there's a date on there it's been out here for a while you'd see the bottle's collapsing no no date all right we got a shelf there's still an intact window the bed covered in plastic so they were trying to keep it preserved i would say possibly this could have been used by hunters let me just see if there's anything in the drawer just rap nest yeah and again so nothing some glad wrap salt and pepper shaker up there looks like some matches and a huge nest in the oven yep did you want to have a look yeah i can see that here that looks like the bedding from the mattress all right let's head out what are you doing just chilling it's a nice little spot cool place to relax see this cabin has not fared too well they would have had a nice nice front door for this one all glass let a lot of light in [Applause] you can see the little cabins in the background and then the foreground the remains of possibly a trailer because you can see the the rear end housing that's been completely stripped out i mean it could be uh vehicle but there's no other remains so our best guess is this it was at one point a trailer here you can see there's some ore cart rail and then just to my right is an old possibly workshop and the little encampment where we're just at is right down there so we come up this road here pretty rough as you can see on the sides here the hinges going up so these were two separate doors and then this was part of the wall that's uh come undone which is now the open door and look at these these pieces of lumber this is great we've got a little table here pretty sturdily built what's this say on it catalytic i don't know what that says sorry vic tolic this nice steel grate on the ground and another solid metal piece right here then we've got some more to see just up there and here we are up at the hoist house see the rigging so there's definitely a vertical shaft right there by andrea oh that's a cold wind well not much left up in here work bench like some railroad ties cut down the length to fit inside the mine nice cement work here and lookie here weld those pipes on the side so they could climb up that looks a little bit unstable so not gonna walk on it just in case does look uh pretty could you see anything from the side that you're at uh yeah if you pan around to the left there's an incline shaft yep the snow's trying to cover it right there in the center of the screen okay from the side see if we can get a peek down in here well you can see a ladder going down look out over that view so we know we are over seven thousand feet here approaching eight thousand and what a majestic view and if you look down this shaft you can see ladders a pipe a false floor and another manhole that goes even further down yep i'm shooting down the manhole now and that just goes straight down and it's on a it's on an incline but that's a very steep incline and that just disappears way down there but look over here so this would be kind of like the hoist to bring up the men would that be right i believe so yeah in the center this is where the spool of wire would have been there's a serial number here it's uh 13506 so oh i'm puffing with the altitude and the hiking up the mountain i see it's sheared off in a couple spots some pieces missing this is still it's in good condition isn't it yeah considering it's uh in pretty good shape it's just cool to see these things still sitting out here just reminders of the past the men who made a living doing this i still can't get over how they even managed to get all this stuff up here from way way way out there continuing our journey up the mountain finally the snow has ceased but the surprise findings have not yet another derelict cabin so very very carefully because i don't know how sturdy the floor is just want to peek in this room so i am going slowly so this was once the bedroom you can see an old boot on the floor just there some shelves now i'm not going to go in there because there's a lot of rat poop and the floor i'm walking on you can see is a little bit sketchy so the whole roof has collapsed and there is another boot just down there i wonder how long that's been there for yet again the winds are blowing hopefully that's keeping the snow at bay for the time being because we have stumbled upon what we have been looking for this is gonna be fun you