Unexpected Discovery in the Mountains

[Music] from our location high up in the Montana mountains again just just beyond Tonto up there in the distance there is another structure don't know what kind of shape it is there's supposed to be a few more in the yeah there's several in the woods according to Google Earth and then we've got this one here right in front of us and then a smaller one over that direction so this we'll just walk in and see what's in there they're not in the best of shape you can kind of see how wonky that is probably oh are you okay yep probably there probably not going to be much left in these Ser some remnants of insulators look at that wallpaper up here it's got a pattern on it is that pretty oh it would have been yeah of a floral like pattern and then all uh all ground so see how everything's shifted looks like all the wood that's on the floor now could have been from up top some of this might be flooring as well but you see how the ground is just completely undulating through here you should see the back here you can see it even more cuz it's hard to tell if there was wood floors throughout oh yeah there is you can see wow and look at there's an old bed frame in the corner but look at the way the the floor is that's that an old uh cooker stove of some sort looks like it and through the window it's just complete devastation that was a a wall that's falling down now separate so that must be bedroom back there I would assume kitchen here well they have what 10 15 ft of snow up here yeah and look at that I mean just the how get a better angle on it on the wall just devastated this whole hm what do you think blue no I thought that but well I guess it could have been the L and then that's your vent pipe OD maybe strange strange yeah okay on to the next one well I guess you would want to uh go out in 10t of snow to go for a pee pee or a poop poop this looks a bit marshy we've just seen making our way over to that other structure that this stream goes right underneath the foundations of the house no wonder why it's being moved and torn apart imagine with the snow melt and everything else how big this must get well this is a whole area of marsh cuz you've got another stream here and I think this could still be um I can hear it snow melt mhm on approach and you can see this one is in much the same state as the the other even with the Log Cabin style see the the chinking is actually breaking out of the and you can actually see the chop marks yeah the hand hun Timbers and is that just one room cabin here see the roof is still oh they've see there they had the vent hole right there but it's covered with like tar paper some type of a say this black paper hanging you got little baby Christmas trees outside oh you got these huge Nails sticking out which looks like there could have been possibly shelving hanging off of though over there on that back wall by the cupboard and over the window know they do have bra brackets so perhaps that was for hanging clothing items you got shows there mhm maybe Christmas tree these people did have to go outside got to say it no trip would be complete without a trip to the L and here's also another look back at the uh the tin roofing I can kind of get a Grand View of the landscape yeah I I can't remember how many mines there are I think there are about a dozen or so in the area and uh what people have found bits and pieces I don't if they found it underneath that's where the Min is used to keep their Treasures wasn't it and they got some more uh wild potentilla at least I think it's potentilla that's what it looks like to me there's a a Remnant here looks like it would have been driving a belt here so maybe for uh some Crushers Rock Crushers I know behind us up on the hill might be able to get a glimpse up Just Between the Trees massive pile of just rocks waste rock there and then further along this Trail there's another looks like a structure remains of there's uh some wire wheels for wire oh right yeah the wood for wire electricity May or no yeah so two of those people normally tip those over and use them as a tables in their Gardens good idea yeah and then there's a oh okay remains of an Orbin I believe up here yeah there's a bunch of okay perhaps this was the this could be the mill Mill site y with the looking at these rock walls stone walls so you got the pile of wood down here the section yeah wow I think so it's always it's neat too it's just like hidden in the forest and then it reveals itself itself when you're right on top of it so neat okay I walked up a little further right at the bottom of like where the stamps look like would have been you've got a series of the shoots coming down four of them two there two here this is where the train gets a little more tough going let's get a closer look at the Alice chers company number 77c Milwaukee Wisconsin keeping up the water now we're being watched I thought it was a bear first of all there two of them just looking at us going what in the hell are you doing and listening us to us Shout at the Bears yeah well if the cows aren't frightened of us shouting I don't know whether a bear would be H we got we have got our bear spray Yeah Boy tell we're uh we're at elevation I'm out of breath I think just right up there by the cow is the tippy top of the the mill site here we'll just have a quick Gander around that and we did spot another building or so in the distance and we'll get back to you so as Steven isn't feeling very well because of the altitude I'm just going to continue this is another cabin and you can see all the um all the material hanging still from the ceiling and from the walls and I just put my hand straight through a cobweb so two rooms nothing much left let's go through here the second room all the floor's gone away oh wonder if that was a basement you know like a food storage you got another room back there and then Little P whoa oh nearly fell there little porch see all the sacking and the tin and the material still with the pattern on it and you can see in the corner how they've actually used Lids of tins to patch up the corner nothing goes to waste stove pipe over there and uh pickley pickley floor so those are the rooms that we looked through and another entrance I'm not going to go down there right let's make our way back out to see steo oh oh there's several down here actually so we've got three three more over there at least and then this one isn't anymore so let's make our way over to those other ones oh how exciting see you just never know what you're going to discover hidden by behind a tree look at that 1 2 3 4 five I can see now we're going to have to cross this little stream without getting wet how you feeling so I'm just going to walk around with this I'm used to giving out all the historic stuff rather than ad libing about cabins and what have you oh hang on a minute look what I've spied on the on the roof solar panels somebody's been doing this cabin up let walk around the outside first just in case there's no trespassing signs I don't think there is otherwise there would have been one on the door you can see the the new roof and the new the new boarding well I never now we are about 15 miles from the main road I believe maybe maybe a little bit more than that uh steep climb you can see the mountains that's where we came from way way way over there the road is okay getting up here you do need high clearance 4x4 obviously but uh we didn't have to do any bouldering or or anything like that so Tonto made it with these okay let's uh see what we've got in this cabin knock knock ah someone's put plexiglass in there so that is a window now this is actually public land so I'm not sure unless they're doing it like a volunteer cabin let's pop that look that back up let's try the front door knock knock anybody home wow can smell paint let's get the torch out so they've got a little stove they put plexiglass in the window they stove there you can smell paint and furbishing and got table with some bits and pieces sofa some soes a clock clock on the wall there and a load of batteries so I'm actually not going to venture in any further I am wondering whether or not this is going to be a volunteer cabin but uh as I said there's no no private or no trespassing signs up but still you never know and this is a world documented area it's uh we've seen three side by sides since uh we've been up here nicely locked up right let's go and Venture and have a look at some other cabins so those are the cabins that we've just come from we've crossed a stream Steven's sitting down over there another side by side's just come past actually let's take a look oh let's take a look at this cabin me huffing and puffing had a sod roof at some point you can see two rooms wow look at the floorboard I would imagine this room would have been the bedroom and then through there would have been the kitchen let's go around there and I would say possibly that might have been an ouse but yes and again you've got um all the fabric hanging down like they used to have at tent cities all right we're going to see that cabin now so by the looks of it this could possibly be 2 cabins but again bit worse for wear they have so much snow up here so it's all again hickley pickley s the wood now I'm also looking for animal footprints too looks like there used to be a stove in that corner there and yet again you got that fancy wallpaper fabric wallpaper so I would imagine that a family or at least a woman would have lived here couldn't see an old hardcore Miner bothering with uh fancy wallpaper somehow oh okay so it's not two cabins it's one that had extensions again wondering whether or not maybe extensions for family children possibly you got another brick chimney there so yeah I would say possibly add-ons for kids that's what I'm going with anyway yeah smart have it in the middle [Music] so here we are at Canyon Creek charcoal KS built late 1800s now did you know that the charcoal from here was taken down to Glendale smelter by horse and cart back in the day you can actually still smell it burning smell also always sound now I wonder why we haven't seen them built so close together as these they're normally in a line like the ones at Trona I think there's 12 of them and they're always in a line these are grouped together which I find really hard because when they they they put all the wood in there they close it up and that's what the hole is at the top they then put more wood on top and then close that don't they but I've noticed that some of them are white it looks like so a lot of them have got these but it's been taken off oh okay so they showing you how it's done so they put all the wood in light it they seal this door up and then they carry on topping it up from the window and that's where the uh where the smoke comes out that's where it vents is my understanding anyway and unfortunately there's no sign at all it's totally gone you would like to 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