I wondered if that deep hole was caused by a mine collapse? The water container with concrete bottom was interesting. The splines leading from the runway, probably led to airplane hangers or airplane tie down areas. What happened to your truck that cost you $1,800?
Trying to follow your journey on Google Earth, I saw all sorts of strange things that look like solar arrays or water catchment, but when you go to Street View they aren't visible even though close to the road. Some of those metal can look like motor oil cans, they have that keyhole type slot that has a foil tear strip. So that video led up to the tow 😥😥
As a retired archaeologist who has worked in the Mojave Desert for nearly 30 years, I recorded a number of mining sites and features. The mining shafts and adits and some prospect pits are extremely dangerous to record and a number of people including hikers and dirt bikers have fallen into them.
@@mandiemoore3272 No, I have not heard about them. Then of course there are a lot of old desert tales around. Also there were lot of things that were carved and set up in the region during the early 20s, such as a cross that was set up by a WWI vet to honor his comrades killed.
@@Germs4982 And another comment from an ignorant person, who's main contribution to society is appearing half naked and drunk at a Washington Commander's game. Don't tell you, are a carpet layer aren't you?
I was stationed at Edwards as a jet mech in the 80's.. Half our barracks had dirt bikes, I built a 4 seater sand rail.. We spent so many days and wasted nights playing and partying in the desert from Eddie's all the way to Mohave to down near Rosamond. The desrt at night was magical. Nursing a hangover sitting atop a rock formation as the sun rises, illuminating the 360 degree view as far as the eye can see- a holy experience!
My favourite part of working in an underground mine in Western Australia outback in 1974 was the night sky perfect visibility with no moon just starlight city dwellers have no idea of the stars the Milky way was like a giant fluro light across the entire sky .Magical indeed
43151c, AFSC (1980), I was all over that desert only had a street bike but did a lot of hiking and target practice. most of the mine shafts were near the rocket labs south base.
The giant can piles may be related to the training camp out in the Mojave during WW II. The soldiers were fed canned food and the cans had to go somewhere. At that time, the desert was seen as a lifeless place so dumping things was considered no big deal.
Didn't think of that. First thought I had was the large parties or festivals in the desert and over the years it just became a tradition of sorts to throw cans in that spot. Your suggestion makes more sense.
I grew up in the Mojave desert. There is so much weird stuff out there. I've been to 3 different adobe style houses with no roof on them. I initially thought they were old settler or maybe native homes but when you get up close to them you can see modern piping and garbage on the ground that led me to believe that they were old cowboy movie props that the film makers just left behind because nobody really cared about cleaning up after themselves.
I cannot explain how much I appreciate this video. From the perspective of someone that's always been fascinated with the Mojave but never managed to go there. This video is perfect by all means. Thank you!!!
As a long-time viewer of your channel and first time commenting here, I just wanted to say the WWII in America series has been extraordinarily insightful and inspiring. As a veteran and history enthusiast myself, these discoveries of Patton's camps have been really enjoyable and I'm surprised to see the lack of footprints as well. Thank you for all your efforts that you put forth on this excursion. Keep up the great work you're doing here Chigg!
My late husband was raised in the Mojave Desert (Palmdale) starting in the mid 50's and the desert was his playground. Many years later we moved there and I remember driving to Vegas and it was required to stop along the road to run out and pick up lava rocks. Much cheaper than the home center
Weird Strange And Dangerous Finds In The Mojave Desert. how do you prove to the boss that yer putting yer hours in when yer erecting telegraph poles in the desert????
It's also a dang good reason not to walk the desert at night... that next shadow could be a mine... Apparently a lot of old mine entrances in Arizona have been half-a** covered with shrubs, sticks and stone. You might not even see them in the daytime, unless you're really paying attention.
@@sardonyxsky It's not the governments job to save you from everything. Most those abandoned mines are from before California became a state and MSHA .
So the little fingers sticking off each end of the runway ending in circles were revetments where aircraft we're parked at one time. General Patton had his own private plane out there when he was commander of the desert training area and would fly his plane from to Camp to camp regularly so the odds are really good that he flew in and out of that Airfield a number of times.
@@NoughtSure with free camping and a really nice on site manager, and the Chevron is open 24 hours to you have a large BATHROOM. I stayed in my big block Olds there in the fall of 2019 before returning to Canada. It was dad's last restoration. Saw a Road Runner there (the desert bird) and it's as big as a chicken, but with longer legs. mOst I'd seen were small. !!
I love when kids say this, like it some universal truth lol, guy hated communists but nazis were literally sending people to death camps, wake the fu*k up 😅@@_Patton_Was_Right
I came across one of those concrete bowls riding my dirt bike in the Mojave desert when I was a kid.. Always wondered what it was. We had 11 acres not far from onyx/lake Isabela. The good ol days. I used to find strange twisted bits of aluminum, gauges, bits and pieces. They were parts from plane crashes. I did not now what it was @ the time. I could spend my whole life exploring that place. So much to see and so little time.
Gross Papa ; Many years ago, 1963-64, my father, brother and I joined some co workers out a ways from Lake Isabella. Years past an old mining town was at the location where we were hunting Quail and Squirrels. It was a wooded area and, IIRC, a branch of the Kern River flowed through the area. The name Kernville comes to mind. Lots of old abandoned Ore Carts, wood cook stoves etc, etc. I took some 35 mm slides of the area but 🤷♂️.........? I'd love to go back there but I'm up in Idaho now. Much too far to even think about a trip like that.
@@harrisonmantooth3647 ah, my family had a cabin they built 45mins up the mountain from Lake Isabella. Apparently when they moved there and purchased that land, they also bought the rights to a couple of mining areas. The cabin was fairly close to Shirley Meadows.
Buried beneath the east side of Nevada & western Utah from their northern borders down into California is a feature named the Deep Carbonate Aquifer. Devil's Hole, near Pahrump, Nevada is a noted bottomless spring or solution cavity. Legend says someone dove deep and never returned. Prehistoric guppies live there.
Incredible! Almost 3.5 MILLION views. And foreshadowing the $1.8k breakdown. I love your SW/desert videos as you show it's more than cactus, sand, and high temps.
We got similar open shafts here in Australia. No taking a short cut through the grass round those places. Locals still tell a story about the dirt bike rider who "found" one. As the story goes he made it over the pit but the bike did not. Never did find out if they got the bike back !
@BreatheScotland There's a geological fault on the hill behind my house (Wales UK) that's open at the top and very deep. It was caused by dodgy mining work apparently. People have lost dogs and livestock down there and it still remains uncapped. The local farmer told me he's been down there with the cave rescue people to get one of his sheepdogs back. There's not even a caution sign up there.
While I was stationed at GAFB in the 80's I went exploring. Found a car, 50's model, down one shaft, it was completely rusted, and look like it would break if tried to use it for climbing. And another shaft nearby had a newer car, maybe 60's model, shape of a Ford fairlane, but it was folded in half, about 50 feet down. It was in slightly better shape, still had some blue paint on it. I thought, "Damn, might ride right into one of these. Better leave before it gets dark. Later, at home, I thought how the heck do you get a folded car in the shaft?" Then I thought, "How'd you get a folded car out here? Miles from anything?" Then I thought, "What folded the car if it drove out here?"
I was on board a buoy tender out of Guam, we island hopped.. It was a working vacation.. Been from Japan down to Australia over to Kuwait.. Dumbass me never thought about exploring for war relics. My enthusiasm was in taking pictures of the islanders, scenary and scuba diving.....
The hole, water collection site, & can dump are all crazy finds out there in the desert. Sorry about the truck trouble. So interesting seeing this place.
Used to live north of Phx, AZ. Alot of old mine shafts & tunnels. Seems at least twice a year, dirt bikers & individuals would ride or fall into an abandoned shaft. A few died. I always stood back away from shafts due to loose gravel at the top edges. To this day they can be very scary/intimidating to say the least. Most tunnels were always filled with Cholla cactus, scattered in there by pack rats to keep predators out. Made it impossible to walk in. Bat's would fly out sometimes, but that never bothered me.
@@DieselRamcharger lived there over 40 yrs. 60's-2000's. May not be to many recent reports, but local news stations/newspapers would report on these types of incidents on a semi - regular basis during 60's and 70's. Alot of these shafts have been fenced off or covered due to these incidents. There are still alot of open shafts, but are way off the beaten path. Some are right in the middle of old roads with no fence or signage to warn you. I know this first hand, as I have explored off the beaten path and have had to slam on the brakes to not drop-off into one. It's quite a heart stopping experience.
Yes, same here. A few years back fell in a shaft in the Cottonwood Canyon area. It was a thirty-foot vertical hole inside of a tunnel that most of us were aware of. I hear she broke both legs. But SAR got her out okay. Those shafts are pretty common. I did many years of exploring until my partner was killed in a Jeep rollover last year. That was one of the rare times that he went out alone. I guess someone was looking out for me.
In the early 80s, we found a verticle shaft like that at the top of a hill in Anza Borego desert. We lowered a guy into it and he yelled up to us "I'm standing on the ass-end of a jeep!"
Ahh there area near Tucson we as locals all used to go out and shoot when ever someone got something new... box canyon.area you fired from couldn't see soil was all shells/brass was a unwritten rule to leave it ...remember once as a kid guy was playing rat patrol had machine gun mounted on his jeep chasing coyotes...back then seemed normal
Seeing that "for sale" sign out there. There are people who have a set income or retired or whatever that own patches of desert out in the middle of this abyss. They stock up on supplies and water and just live. It's quite an amazing place out there.
May have been far deeper than 100 feet. Our house I lived in growing up in Red Mountain on 395 sat behind a 1600 foot vertical shaft, deepest in the area.
...uh-huh. In a California produced film. I enjoyed watching US Army jeeps driving underground to locate giant ants. Elsewhere, I paid for a jeep ride into another hole, just so I could sense what a search for giant ants would sound like.
My father was stationed in the Mojave for a year. .He was being trained & experment by Gen Patton. The American Army had never fought in the desert. So the Army wanted to know what the soldiers could take and survive in the desert. My father told me that they were limited to about a quart of water a day. (I don't remember the exact amount). He said that they had to drink, prepare meals, and wash. As I said before the Army was trying to find out what the troops could take My father survived, but was disappointed, because he couldn't go to North Africa with Patton. Instead he went to the Pacific, and ended up in Siapan and Okinawa to name a few
@@abrahamgarcia1640 I read the book "Patton A Genius For War" by Carlo DeStefano. It was a great book. Patton is a very interesting person. He is also a dynamic person. He knew ever detail of his Army. He got in trouble for the slapping of a soldier. He was actually stressed out from the Sicily Invasion. Also this soldier was moaning from shell shock. Patton felt it was unfair to the really injured and dying soldiers.
There used to be a couple of abandoned M3 Lee Grant tanks sitting out there that were buried where they stood after they developed engine problems. Years later, they were rediscovered and dug-up by dirt bikers in the 1960s after one of them hit part of one of them that was sticking up and became something of a local landmark. My parents grew up in Tehachapi and they and other local kids used to go out there and climb around on them in highschool. Sadly, sometime in the late 70s, a scrap dealer from LA came in and cut them up.
Yep. The Army did "experiment" with soldiers. Have you ever seen the video of soldiers who were standing in a trench with goggles, looking at an atomic weapon going off? They wanted to know what an atomic weapon did to human flesh. Easiest bunch of flesh around were low rank soldiers who were ordered to do this. Of course, they were told it was perfectly safe...
@@moodberry My father was luck, he was before the Abomb. The Army was trying to figure out how much or how.little water a soldier needed to function in the desert He had pictures of frying an egg on the outside of his tank. He said that he was given a gal of water for drinking, cooking, and washing. I am not sure of the gallon of water. He told me about it when I was a boy. I am sure that it was not a lot. He survived. I read accounts of the year in the desert. Only one GI died. Those tests were done under Patton command. My dad thought Patton was the greatest. After his year in the desert, my dad was disappointed, that he did get to go with Patton to North Africa. Instead he went with the 27th Army Div to the Pacific.
Strangest thing to happen in the Mojave Desert is having the darn cazadores ambush you when you go North of Goodsprings. Seriously though, this guy must be living the ligem ive always wanted to live in the Mojave Desert. Its so beautiful.
Love the video , thanks for letting us all tag along!! @1:43 My heart sank thinking of that edge slumping off!! Ive been to that area @3:09 The other sides of those hills have little mines cut into some of those baby hills!
There are huge piles of cans like that in the Northwoods of Wisconsin from where the logging camps were back in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Just carpeted with rusty cans, mainly beer cans. Seeing the mix here I suspect this was where a mining camp was for many years.
That's MY desert! In 1966 our late Dad took my brother & me out to one of these WWII air strips in a VW Bug to teach us how to drive. He got out, said "..have fun. There's not much to hit out here." He knew several of the old mine caretakers. So we had lot's of private tours, lot's of stories.
Be careful, slip fall, nobody find you. I lived in New Guinea, 60's, 70s, Americans built their airstrip using Marsden matting. Back there in 2017, still there. Reckon rusted cans/tins from war time, rations. We found same in New Guinea dumping areas, left behind. We'd scout surrounding areas find helmets, bayonets, eating utensils, water bottles, fuel cans, live grenades, rifle & pistol rounds both live & spent. My buddy found thompson machine gun, timber parts rotted away. Father & I also found an American aircraft crash landed few miles short of their airstrip on one of our hunting trips.🖐🇦🇺
Every time he threw a rock down into one of those holes, I kept expecting a very angry giant spider to come out. Or a giant ant, like in the movie "Them".
Tin cans were used in processing copper ore for leaching. I should know exactly how, as my Grandpa is considered the inventor of the process for Kennecot, but I didn't pay that close attention to how the story went. Basically, he just handed Kennecott the patent, as he was their employee at the time. Those cans may have been part of such a setup, or an operation that never took off?
From a chemical standpoint, you can use tin to extract copper ions from solution. I don't know if that's what they used it for, but it happens without any energy input, so it'd be a cheap way to extract copper from solution.
@peregrinestudio that's awesome you got those stories of your grandpa. Mine didn't talk about the war too much. He was a cook on a battleship, I forget which one. He left me some paperwork years ago that I keep in my dad's safe. I should go get that some day
That air strip might of been a reserve action base to protect L.A. during WW2 , doesn't seem to be any old building foot prints showing base support , very interesting .
I spent a week in Mojave with some people I met 2 days before. Best week of my life. One of the guys told me to read this book which reminded me of The Matrix movie but with more information. And it changed my life…so I’m paying it forward: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from time travel, dreams, death, the afterlife, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years. Highly recommend it.
As a hobby I look at satellite imagery and identify abandoned mines and other interesting things, mostly in Arizona. I've found a lot of cool stuff and learned a lot through this hobby. I found your channel/this video, pretty cool stuff, in line with what I like. EDIT: For example, Corona Satellite Calibration Targets all over the desert south of Casa Grande, AZ. There's so many cool things just left in the middle of nowhere with stories to tell.
@@Crismodin I love seeing old gold mines, or uranium mines would be cool, but from what I’ve read they’re more in northern Arizona. I’m in santan valley, so anything between santan and Tucson maybe? I truly love to visit places and even better if I can find the history on it with some historic photos to identify stuff. I actually just came back from Bodie mine in California and man, I was in heaven! Even got my own private tour by a nice ranger!
Desert adventure or River? You don't make it easy for me when I look at your Playlists! Every other one on the river? Or every 3rd one in the desert? Nothing but good choices. Thanks, Beau.
I remember being with my Uncle on his farm in Ireland. In the upper fields were open shafts from the Copper Mine. No signs, no fence, just a dark hole in the earth that nightmares are made of...
I lived in Boron for a short time and a couple of trailer parks near Edwards in the 50's when my Dad worked at Edwards AFB. In the Boy Scouts we hiked throughout the Hinkley area and loved finding 50 caliber shell casings from strafing runs made by fighter planes years before.
We were driving up 395 at night and stop to eat dinner off the side of the road in our trailer. All at once the sky was lit up like day time and this loud roar shook our table. On the other side of the road some sort of rocket motor with horizontal flames 100 feet long blasted away for 30-40 seconds.
Rode down one near Barstow (Owl Basin Campground) on my friend's motorcycle. Luckily, I didn't get hurt because it was only ten feet deep, and the bottom was shaped Like pill. The weight of the motorcycle was totally absorbed. I was unscathed except a few scratches. My friend saw it happen right in front of him. If that happened while I was alone, I would have been left for dead.
There are so many things hiding right in front of you in the Deserts, that you don't see passing by on Highways! You never know what you can find while exploring, not to mention all the bodies!
I hear people go missing out there I used to ride my road king from DHS to Vegas through kelso and amboy it was a little spooky at night by myself I was an iron worker on the volcano at the mirage hotel and made the trip every weekend it’s hot as hell don’t miss California either
As an older teen, I found one of those mines and crawled down the wooden ladder. Got to a ledge and found some "sweating" dynamite. That convinced even that teen brain I should get out of there! The rusting tin cans is weird, but as close as it is to I-40, I would say it is likely a dump site of food cans for the workers who built the interstate.
Good chance the cans are from the big 'tin can' recycling drives they used to do in the big urban centers in the 70's and 80's to make the tree huggers feel like th eir crying mattered. The sad reality was that metal is the lowest grade junk and near useless and worthless for melting down to make anything from, so most of it just got quietly dumped in rural landfills and remote areas like this video shows. Same game we play today with most recyclables that are worthless to make the same fools shut up and leave normal people alone for a while. 😋
@@tcmtech7515 they were steel in the 70s, not tin. If they didnt use tin back then, it wouldnt have been such a crap product, but thats the corrupt metals industry for you! Lotta talk, no substance!
From southern England. You showed a shot of a big concrete-lined pit on an old USAF air-base. Here all over Britain we find similar, smaller places, some recent, some dating back 3 to 4 thousand years, clay-lined pits atop chalk hills, built & used by herdsmen to gather water for their flocks. No sweat!
There is a can pile out my way like that as well. Mines in the area. Not sure why they piled them up like that but it sure makes a good place to find some rattlers in the summer.
I am from Palm Springs and used to go out there all the time. Well I met an old timer who lived in that desert and told me when WWll started Paton left all the training equipment in that desert. I was told there are Harleys with side cars and weapons still packed in grease and everything you would think our military trained with all out there buried somewhere. I don't know because I never got a good chance to explore. But I will say this the guy who told me was absolutely sure it was there. He may have been crazy but all these years later I still think about it
This was so cool. We went through Barstow many times on our travels. You might say I am a Desert rat. I still live in the Desert, but it looks like it will look like San Bernadino if it is up to the powers that be! We don't have fringe toed lizards anymore, but they were here 53 years ago when we moved here. It used to be very quiet and lucky if you saw a car traveling on Hwy 10 but not anymore. It is a very noisy freeway. Oh well I think they call that progress.
My old neck of the woods. There's something magical about the Mojave, especially out on the 40 between Barstow and Needles. Between the ancient volcanic geology and mineral rich mountains; it's one of my favorite places on earth. I kinda miss it, but going back entails living in a town like Barstow, Needles, Topoc, Bullhead, or the Victor Valley. I don't miss those places at all. Nah, as soon as I get things working, it's back off to Utah for me.
Lived out in Joshua Tree, Landers & 29 Palms for 10 years spanning the early 80's and 90's. Now I'm 60 retired on the beach in Florida, and yet the desert still is and was my favorite place and time I ever had. I miss it very much (I would never go back. Too sad to see how it's so overdeveloped now)
Really? I'm getting rather sick of things here in Utah. At least in and around Salt Lake City. The cost of living will be on par with San Francisco very soon. Unless I overhaul my life drastically I will never be able to afford to buy a home in the place I was born and raised. I simply don't make enough money.
My home town Is Barstow , I do miss the desert , but not California.. Had a good childhood friend of mine who wound up a quadriplegic due to riding his dirt bike into one of those vertical mine shafts
Our Mohave desert is incredible! So many hidden jems and history. You’ll be here for a long time searching all the old mines and volunteer cabins hidden in our mountains! They are everywhere! Happy searching Chigg!! And Happy New Year Sir !!! ❤️❤️❤️ stay safe.
Would you happen to have a location of some good spots to explore. My friends and I love looking at stuff like this. We still go to the busted dam every now and again
@@sefan1317 I know there was an abandoned mine somewhere in Rosamond but I never went to it. I hear there's a lot of abandoned stuff south of where the base gate is too.
That was awesome Chigger! Love watching your content man, its an adventure taking us to some strange places in the great US desert. Always fascinates me what is out there. Love from Australia!
I wonder how many cars and missing people are down in that hole? When you were throwing rocks it sounded like they were hitting metal! Someone should create a barrier around that hole. Interesting video ! Your friend and fan, Kevin
In this day and age I'm surprised the military hasn't been ordered to clean up the entire desert mess they created. Including barricading that hole off.
My first time seeing this page, this is dope! Clearly you’re a pro at this but mate please be careful out there, always tell someone where you are etc.. something about desserts for me, I always feel like someone/something is watching
Trucker here, did some hikes in that area with the cans, should be mountain spring rd. You missed the old james dean car that seemed to have flipped off a mountain. and the amount of glass just caked out there. Also many cool ravines and Huge jack rabbits
This reminds me of a story a coworker told me 40 years ago. He and some buddies had been doing some major 4-wheeling around Nederland, Co (lots of silver mines). They roared up a hill, topped it, and barely stopped just in front of a timber-lined 12’ X 12’ shaft! They could see ~100’ down it before mist got too heavy. After numerous tries to loft a big rock down the center, one finally went straight down without hitting the sides…they never heard it hit anything! (Some of the shafts there went down 2500 feet). Good thing they got stopped…
Brother just be careful man. This is how people disappear :( we can't lose ya brother. I don't want to have to make a video of the last place anyone seen the chigg :(
Can dumps are historic, archeologists can tell how people lived, the products they used, etc. It's pretty interesting, as you can date sites from the canning technology used.
Saw a documentary on the national road. When people got more mobile after WWII road trippers would often stop in the same spot to eat one of the popular travel foods were can goods. They said huge piles of empty cans were common along the roads..
George Davis ; When I was a youngster, my family made many trips from California to Arizona and Oklahoma which was where our Roots were. If we happened to pass through a town close to lunch time, dad would park and he and mom would go into a grocery store, buy a loaf of bread, some mayo, Bologna, paper cups and a gallon of milk. Dad would then drive outside of town, find a shady spot and mama would begin making sandwiches and daddy was pouring milk and passing it around. I don't remember us ever going into a restaurant for a meal when I was young. It was much too expensive for a family of eight souls.
I saw that documentary on the old Lincoln highway too. The people were called "tin can travellers" I believe. It was during the early days of the automobile when the very first interstate highways, or probably better called roads, were built.
Yep Litter Bugs started in the Mid 1940s And now look at the mess we make !!! Hell we even Left 850 Lbs Of Human Poop on the Moon, and it's still in Perfect Condition, They were too lazy to bring it back home i Guess !!!
@@rogerhegemier8491 they probably would of put in in bags like dog crap fly it the entire way back and throw it on the ground right next to a garage can...lol
Thank you for exploring the desert. I went out in the desert a short way once and I am a city kid and OMG I was scared to death. So I am fascinated by your exploration video. Thanks so muchfor this.
I live by pyramid lake near Reno and there is hundreds of mine minutes from my house, most of which are closed off, but me and my friends like to explore the “safer ones”
Camp Essex airfield from WW2 lots of online information and pictures from WW2. The 500,000 gallon concrete reservoir was filled by two 750 foot deep wells.
Interesting what there is hidden and forgotten in different locations. I live near a housing complex that has been abandoned since the mid 60's. Houses still standing. No trespassing signs all over the place ,but people still wander around the old houses. I never entered the area. Only heard about it from friends. The whole area was built in the Late 30's Early 40's before WW 2 and was used for a research center. Who knows what that research was.
I love watching the places you go. I've never been anywhere to see all this stuff. Very interesting. If you find something you want to keep are you allowed to keep it? I've seen some videos where there's everything left behind.
Isn't it negligent to not have huge warning signs prior to that massive hole in the ground? What the heck?!?! That is so extremely dangerous it blows my mind
Have you ever been to that part of the country? There's thousands of square miles of what you see in these videos. Trying to put signs around every hazard would be impossible. (Though it'd probably thrill the environmentalists to see thousands of signs around the desert, lol...) If you go off the beaten path (say like, a real road), you're assuming all risks. Don't become a Darwin Award.
Yes most of the ones known about are fenced off , but there are thousands of them that are not reported or known about. Sadly it normally takes somebody on a dirt bike riding into it before it's reported and fenced Happens quite a lot out in the Mojave Desert
@@Backroad_Junkie and many of those roads do have signs ‘primitive road. Not maintained. Travel at your own risk.’ At least where I live in Mohave county, Arizona, I see those signs regularly
Yes, lots of liability, if you can track the real owner down, but as Junkie & Rooster & Nick say, there are just too many to police. A few are fenced off now.
Good video. I've run into many of these types of "dig outs" in the desert areas of California and Arizona. My partner of twenty years died in a Jeep rollover last year so it is difficult to go it alone. My interest in your videos has increased!
that first pit looks similar to the tin mine entrances in the hills around herberton far north queensland..... real dangerous at night if youre out bushwalking... not many are grille covered either.... you should try and put large rocks in the vehicle approaches.... good vid thanks for the upload
Wow!!! A really good reason you don't drive around at night in the dark in an unfamiliar place. It could be your last ride. Glad you set up camp before night fall chigg. Lol. 😁👍👍
Really cool- also appreciate that the video actually had the item in it that I saw before I clicked on it. Also interesting that water was where you found it.
Man...that rock you the down the hole sounded like it hit something that mad a hollow sounding metallic thunk...like maybe the hood or roof of a vehicle.
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I wondered if that deep hole was caused by a mine collapse? The water container with concrete bottom was interesting. The splines leading from the runway, probably led to airplane hangers or airplane tie down areas. What happened to your truck that cost you $1,800?
Trying to follow your journey on Google Earth, I saw all sorts of strange things that look like solar arrays or water catchment, but when you go to Street View they aren't visible even though close to the road. Some of those metal can look like motor oil cans, they have that keyhole type slot that has a foil tear strip. So that video led up to the tow 😥😥
I bet that’s one time you’re glad you had cell signal
Oh my nenith Chigg, You found a samsqanches community swimming pool dude.
As a retired archaeologist who has worked in the Mojave Desert for nearly 30 years, I recorded a number of mining sites and features. The mining shafts and adits and some prospect pits are extremely dangerous to record and a number of people including hikers and dirt bikers have fallen into them.
I'm sure he knows.
Do you know anything about the legend of lost heads just south of the Mojave in Desert Hot Springs???
@@mandiemoore3272 No, I have not heard about them. Then of course there are a lot of old desert tales around. Also there were lot of things that were carved and set up in the region during the early 20s, such as a cross that was set up by a WWI vet to honor his comrades killed.
And yet another professional useless person
@@Germs4982 And another comment from an ignorant person, who's main contribution to society is appearing half naked and drunk at a Washington Commander's game. Don't tell you, are a carpet layer aren't you?
I was stationed at Edwards as a jet mech in the 80's.. Half our barracks had dirt bikes, I built a 4 seater sand rail.. We spent so many days and wasted nights playing and partying in the desert from Eddie's all the way to Mohave to down near Rosamond. The desrt at night was magical. Nursing a hangover sitting atop a rock formation as the sun rises, illuminating the 360 degree view as far as the eye can see- a holy experience!
My favourite part of working in an underground mine in Western Australia outback in 1974 was the night sky perfect visibility with no moon just starlight city dwellers have no idea of the stars the Milky way was like a giant fluro light across the entire sky .Magical indeed
If you don't mind me asking, what's a sand rail?
43151c, AFSC (1980), I was all over that desert only had a street bike but did a lot of hiking and target practice. most of the mine shafts were near the rocket labs south base.
Oh yeah, we know, rattlesnakes all around you below! Yummmm!!!!
@@avencannon9719 A dune buggy, but more powerful engine.
The giant can piles may be related to the training camp out in the Mojave during WW II. The soldiers were fed canned food and the cans had to go somewhere. At that time, the desert was seen as a lifeless place so dumping things was considered no big deal.
Didn't think of that. First thought I had was the large parties or festivals in the desert and over the years it just became a tradition of sorts to throw cans in that spot. Your suggestion makes more sense.
Exacty, General Pattons field office was in Needles California. Its now a Weed shop
@@colesdad2000oh shit which one I've probably been to it lol
I grew up in the Mojave desert. There is so much weird stuff out there. I've been to 3 different adobe style houses with no roof on them. I initially thought they were old settler or maybe native homes but when you get up close to them you can see modern piping and garbage on the ground that led me to believe that they were old cowboy movie props that the film makers just left behind because nobody really cared about cleaning up after themselves.
I have to see this, i hope one day to take a drive out to the mojave desert (which I'm not too far from since I'm in Riverside,CA).
yes butt i am amazon ! ,
YEP, just like Hollywood, create crap only to leave crap
ĢA ' gnarly 😮
Hollyweird virtually cares about the environment!
I cannot explain how much I appreciate this video. From the perspective of someone that's always been fascinated with the Mojave but never managed to go there. This video is perfect by all means. Thank you!!!
Deserts are magical yet dangerous places. Watch out for Graboids.
What happens in the Mojave stays in the Mojave.
😉
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Literally
Yep!!
Spent a lot of time there.
Get a dirt bike, and head out.
All kinds of strange stuff, all over the Mojave.
Love it out there!!!
Not true I moved 10 years ago
As a long-time viewer of your channel and first time commenting here, I just wanted to say the WWII in America series has been extraordinarily insightful and inspiring. As a veteran and history enthusiast myself, these discoveries of Patton's camps have been really enjoyable and I'm surprised to see the lack of footprints as well. Thank you for all your efforts that you put forth on this excursion. Keep up the great work you're doing here Chigg!
My late husband was raised in the Mojave Desert (Palmdale) starting in the mid 50's and the desert was his playground. Many years later we moved there and I remember driving to Vegas and it was required to stop along the road to run out and pick up lava rocks. Much cheaper than the home center
Weird Strange And Dangerous Finds In The Mojave Desert. how do you prove to the boss that yer putting yer hours in when yer erecting telegraph poles in the desert????
It's also a dang good reason not to walk the desert at night... that next shadow could be a mine... Apparently a lot of old mine entrances in Arizona have been half-a** covered with shrubs, sticks and stone. You might not even see them in the daytime, unless you're really paying attention.
There are over 100,000 abandoned mines in Arizona. Yes, really.
shame on our governments for their negligence. likely many animals have died as a consequence, if not people.
Lots of illegal aliens wandering around lost, maybe....hmmm?
@@sardonyxsky It's not the governments job to save you from everything. Most those abandoned mines are from before California became a state and MSHA .
Thats true for and mining areas, especially old gold camp/town areas.
So the little fingers sticking off each end of the runway ending in circles were revetments where aircraft we're parked at one time. General Patton had his own private plane out there when he was commander of the desert training area and would fly his plane from to Camp to camp regularly so the odds are really good that he flew in and out of that Airfield a number of times.
Coll piece of history you shared! Thanks Bro
and then he figured out we fought the wrong people
@@NoughtSure with free camping and a really nice on site manager, and the Chevron is open 24 hours to you have a large BATHROOM. I stayed in my big block Olds there in the fall of 2019 before returning to Canada. It was dad's last restoration. Saw a Road Runner there (the desert bird) and it's as big as a chicken, but with longer legs. mOst I'd seen were small. !!
John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 🙏!!
I love when kids say this, like it some universal truth lol, guy hated communists but nazis were literally sending people to death camps, wake the fu*k up 😅@@_Patton_Was_Right
I came across one of those concrete bowls riding my dirt bike in the Mojave desert when I was a kid.. Always wondered what it was. We had 11 acres not far from onyx/lake Isabela. The good ol days. I used to find strange twisted bits of aluminum, gauges, bits and pieces. They were parts from plane crashes. I did not now what it was @ the time. I could spend my whole life exploring that place. So much to see and so little time.
Gross Papa ; Many years ago, 1963-64, my father, brother and I joined some co workers out a ways from Lake Isabella. Years past an old mining town was at the location where we were hunting Quail and Squirrels. It was a wooded area and, IIRC, a branch of the Kern River flowed through the area. The name Kernville comes to mind. Lots of old abandoned Ore Carts, wood cook stoves etc, etc. I took some 35 mm slides of the area but 🤷♂️.........?
I'd love to go back there but I'm up in Idaho now. Much too far to even think about a trip like that.
@@harrisonmantooth3647 ah, my family had a cabin they built 45mins up the mountain from Lake Isabella. Apparently when they moved there and purchased that land, they also bought the rights to a couple of mining areas. The cabin was fairly close to Shirley Meadows.
@@aliciaevans2012 the
@@aliciaevans2012 my job sends drivers to Lake Isabella often. The lake is losing a lot of the water. Looks bad.
@@lashturner yeah, they've been draining it for years
You need to check out Bob Manns book collection, This guy traveled about every square inch of the mojave and documented it all.
Stationed at Edwards AFB, 1963-67. Lots of memories made in the Mojave. Enjoyed reading similar experiences.
Growing up in Joshua Tree and always exploring the desert, it would baffle me the amount for trash that had been left through all the years
There are an awful lot of subhuman dirtbags in Cali.
Have traveled the Mohave trail several times. There are stories of a large underground river system in mojave
you guys make this place seem like an area 51 for some reason. all kind of mysterious
@@BlueRice it's a lot of strange still out there....Mormon trail went through there, many unmarked graves there too...
@@BlueRice they want it to be something it’s not for conversation purposes.
@@Justshredman that’s a weird thing to say….🧐
Buried beneath the east side of Nevada & western Utah from their northern borders down into California is a feature named the Deep Carbonate Aquifer. Devil's Hole, near Pahrump, Nevada is a noted bottomless spring or solution cavity. Legend says someone dove deep and never returned.
Prehistoric guppies live there.
What freaks me out the most is the fact that you're out there exploring the desert in a ticking time bomb 6.4 Powerstroke.
😂
was thinking the same thing... and no monitors or gauges!
Thinking the same thing!
Ouch
Yeah... garbage truck lol
Incredible! Almost 3.5 MILLION views. And foreshadowing the $1.8k breakdown. I love your SW/desert videos as you show it's more than cactus, sand, and high temps.
I appreciate the kind words and am happy to know you like my videos. Ther donation is great too!
0:35 Had to hear it twice, because the first I heard the 2nd stone drop, it sounded like it hit a car roof.
Wow, driving headlong into that hole in the road would have cost a lot more than engine work. Cool vid, Chigg.
We got similar open shafts here in Australia. No taking a short cut through the grass round those places. Locals still tell a story about the dirt bike rider who "found" one. As the story goes he made it over the pit but the bike did not. Never did find out if they got the bike back !
@BreatheScotland There's a geological fault on the hill behind my house (Wales UK) that's open at the top and very deep. It was caused by dodgy mining work apparently. People have lost dogs and livestock down there and it still remains uncapped. The local farmer told me he's been down there with the cave rescue people to get one of his sheepdogs back. There's not even a caution sign up there.
While I was stationed at GAFB in the 80's I went exploring. Found a car, 50's model, down one shaft, it was completely rusted, and look like it would break if tried to use it for climbing. And another shaft nearby had a newer car, maybe 60's model, shape of a Ford fairlane, but it was folded in half, about 50 feet down. It was in slightly better shape, still had some blue paint on it. I thought, "Damn, might ride right into one of these. Better leave before it gets dark. Later, at home, I thought how the heck do you get a folded car in the shaft?" Then I thought, "How'd you get a folded car out here? Miles from anything?" Then I thought, "What folded the car if it drove out here?"
Imagine the tow bill
@@Technichian462 maybe someone make that
I went to MOS school in 29 palms but never made the time to explore. Thanks for sharing! This was fun to see.
I was with 3/7 all 4 years. I didnt want to explore it at all . I lived out there.
Same. We did explore some, but not quite like the chigg is doing. I did explore JT a lot more my second time there. Lots of mines up in those hills.
Same here, quite unfortunate. Really wish I had taken the time to hike around Joshua Tree more as well while I was nearby.
I was on board a buoy tender out of Guam, we island hopped..
It was a working vacation..
Been from Japan down to Australia over to Kuwait..
Dumbass me never thought about exploring for war relics.
My enthusiasm was in taking pictures of the islanders, scenary and scuba diving.....
The hole, water collection site, & can dump are all crazy finds out there in the desert. Sorry about the truck trouble. So interesting seeing this place.
Used to live north of Phx, AZ. Alot of old mine shafts & tunnels. Seems at least twice a year, dirt bikers & individuals would ride or fall into an abandoned shaft. A few died. I always stood back away from shafts due to loose gravel at the top edges. To this day they can be very scary/intimidating to say the least. Most tunnels were always filled with Cholla cactus, scattered in there by pack rats to keep predators out. Made it impossible to walk in. Bat's would fly out sometimes, but that never bothered me.
@luca fresh lived in phoenix ove 20 years havent ever heard of a single person falling into a mine shaft.
Some of the people are going in the old mines and they are finding old Levis jeans worth a bunch of money..
@@DieselRamcharger lived there over 40 yrs. 60's-2000's. May not be to many recent reports, but local news stations/newspapers would report on these types of incidents on a semi - regular basis during 60's and 70's. Alot of these shafts have been fenced off or covered due to these incidents. There are still alot of open shafts, but are way off the beaten path. Some are right in the middle of old roads with no fence or signage to warn you. I know this first hand, as I have explored off the beaten path and have had to slam on the brakes to not drop-off into one. It's quite a heart stopping experience.
@@randalmorris1772 ive heard of 4wheelers and offroaders falling in.....but never just folks out walking around in the desert.
Yes, same here. A few years back fell in a shaft in the Cottonwood Canyon area. It was a thirty-foot vertical hole inside of a tunnel that most of us were aware of. I hear she broke both legs. But SAR got her out okay. Those shafts are pretty common.
I did many years of exploring until my partner was killed in a Jeep rollover last year. That was one of the rare times that he went out alone. I guess someone was looking out for me.
I grew up in Victorville. We used to find stuff like that all the time in the desert!
In the early 80s, we found a verticle shaft like that at the top of a hill in Anza Borego desert. We lowered a guy into it and he yelled up to us "I'm standing on the ass-end of a jeep!"
Was there a Skeleton there too?
@@barrywainwright3391 haha, no - but we found out later it was 2 marines - 1 died. It apparently had happened only weeks prior to us being there.
@@rayss3323 Wow, that's crazy!
OMG! That amount of tin cans reminds me of the fact my Mother could not cook! Until My brother and I went rogue and took over the kitchen! 😀
Awww, bless her. I hope you showed her how.
Ahh there area near Tucson we as locals all used to go out and shoot when ever someone got something new... box canyon.area you fired from couldn't see soil was all shells/brass was a unwritten rule to leave it ...remember once as a kid guy was playing rat patrol had machine gun mounted on his jeep chasing coyotes...back then seemed normal
Seeing that "for sale" sign out there. There are people who have a set income or retired or whatever that own patches of desert out in the middle of this abyss. They stock up on supplies and water and just live. It's quite an amazing place out there.
Like slab City
Thinking about Tremors, the film!
6:37 is really far away from the M Cave siting, south of Las Vegas (Fenner Air Strip) next to Rt 66
Lived in the Nevada desert (literally) for many years. So pretty and peaceful with no people around.
lucky you i worked in a big city for years . endless noise not good for nerves!
I love checking out the desert when I fly. I see the strangest things.
May have been far deeper than 100 feet. Our house I lived in growing up in Red Mountain on 395 sat behind a 1600 foot vertical shaft, deepest in the area.
Red Mountain; went to the Museum and they had these incredible carved "art" spear points from some local guy? Never seen anything like them.
You haven't seen a large hole in the ground with giant ants going in and out have you?
THEM!
...uh-huh. In a California produced film. I enjoyed watching US Army jeeps
driving underground to locate giant ants. Elsewhere, I paid for a jeep ride
into another hole, just so I could sense what a search for giant ants would
sound like.
Dang, beat me to it.
I was going to suggest tossing in a Thermite grenade rather than a rock...
THEM!!!
OH that Corny Ass C movie from the 1950s, with the Good Looking Nice, of the Old Fart Professor !!! What a Joke that movie Was !!!
My father was stationed in the Mojave for a year. .He was being trained & experment by Gen Patton.
The American Army had never fought in the desert.
So the Army wanted to know what the soldiers could take and survive in the desert.
My father told me that they were limited to about a quart of water a day. (I don't remember the exact amount).
He said that they had to drink, prepare meals, and wash.
As I said before the Army was trying to find out what the troops could take
My father survived, but was disappointed, because he couldn't go to North Africa with Patton. Instead he went to the Pacific, and ended up in Siapan and Okinawa to name a few
I seen someone say in the comments Gen Patton flew his Personal plane their, by the way did you hear anything else about Gen Patton?
@@abrahamgarcia1640 I read the book "Patton A Genius For War" by Carlo DeStefano.
It was a great book. Patton is a very interesting person. He is also a dynamic person. He knew ever detail of his Army. He got in trouble for the slapping of a soldier.
He was actually stressed out from the Sicily Invasion. Also this soldier was moaning from shell shock. Patton felt it was unfair to the really injured and dying soldiers.
There used to be a couple of abandoned M3 Lee Grant tanks sitting out there that were buried where they stood after they developed engine problems. Years later, they were rediscovered and dug-up by dirt bikers in the 1960s after one of them hit part of one of them that was sticking up and became something of a local landmark. My parents grew up in Tehachapi and they and other local kids used to go out there and climb around on them in highschool. Sadly, sometime in the late 70s, a scrap dealer from LA came in and cut them up.
Yep. The Army did "experiment" with soldiers. Have you ever seen the video of soldiers who were standing in a trench with goggles, looking at an atomic weapon going off? They wanted to know what an atomic weapon did to human flesh. Easiest bunch of flesh around were low rank soldiers who were ordered to do this. Of course, they were told it was perfectly safe...
@@moodberry My father was luck, he was before the Abomb.
The Army was trying to figure out how much or how.little water a soldier needed to function in the desert
He had pictures of frying an egg on the outside of his tank.
He said that he was given a gal of water for drinking, cooking, and washing.
I am not sure of the gallon of water. He told me about it when I was a boy.
I am sure that it was not a lot.
He survived. I read accounts of the year in the desert. Only one GI died.
Those tests were done under Patton command.
My dad thought Patton was the greatest. After his year in the desert, my dad was disappointed, that he did get to go with Patton to North Africa.
Instead he went with the 27th Army Div to the Pacific.
Strangest thing to happen in the Mojave Desert is having the darn cazadores ambush you when you go North of Goodsprings. Seriously though, this guy must be living the ligem ive always wanted to live in the Mojave Desert. Its so beautiful.
Love the video , thanks for letting us all tag along!!
@1:43 My heart sank thinking of that edge slumping off!!
Ive been to that area @3:09 The other sides of those hills have little mines cut into some of those baby hills!
You should buy a underwater fishing camera and a rc crawler....would make exploring those deep holes interesting
You sir are a inspiration to many. Don't stop.
What was the problem on your truck ?
There are huge piles of cans like that in the Northwoods of Wisconsin from where the logging camps were back in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Just carpeted with rusty cans, mainly beer cans. Seeing the mix here I suspect this was where a mining camp was for many years.
I'd metal detect around, those cans may have been used for leeching copper ore.
Obviously they are steel, rusted - not aluminum like more recent cans, probably like Medic642 said - from long ago.
I wonder if it’s all cans or if there’s other trash mixed in?
@@Bardmusic66 likely nearly all cans. they didnt have much other trash in those situations, the rest would be burned
My parents, cousins and I explored the Mojave and Saguaro deserts a lot when I was a kid. We saw a lot of weird stuff.
Please elaborate! What kind of weird stuff?
By Saguaro, you mean Sonoran
@@Chevelle602 yes that's correct. Please excuse me as I have old timers. Haven't been there in over 40 years, I'm just happy I remember being there!
@@raiderjohnthemadbomber8666 what do you mean by weird stuff?
See any Radscorps?
That's MY desert! In 1966 our late Dad took my brother & me out to one of these WWII air strips in a VW Bug to teach us how to drive. He got out, said "..have fun. There's not much to hit out here." He knew several of the old mine caretakers. So we had lot's of private tours, lot's of stories.
Mine, too, from 59!
Be careful, slip fall, nobody find you. I lived in New Guinea, 60's, 70s, Americans built their airstrip using Marsden matting. Back there in 2017, still there. Reckon rusted cans/tins from war time, rations. We found same in New Guinea dumping areas, left behind. We'd scout surrounding areas find helmets, bayonets, eating utensils, water bottles, fuel cans, live grenades, rifle & pistol rounds both live & spent. My buddy found thompson machine gun, timber parts rotted away. Father & I also found an American aircraft crash landed few miles short of their airstrip on one of our hunting trips.🖐🇦🇺
1800 dollar adventures into the unknown are always better than 5K ones!
Every time he threw a rock down into one of those holes, I kept expecting a very angry giant spider to come out. Or a giant ant, like in the movie "Them".
Tin cans were used in processing copper ore for leaching. I should know exactly how, as my Grandpa is considered the inventor of the process for Kennecot, but I didn't pay that close attention to how the story went. Basically, he just handed Kennecott the patent, as he was their employee at the time. Those cans may have been part of such a setup, or an operation that never took off?
My grandpa work as a pipe welder at kennecot in Ely his whole life becides during ww2. Wish he was still around
Pretty common for companies to take the patents of their employees. My father had a couple taken...
From a chemical standpoint, you can use tin to extract copper ions from solution.
I don't know if that's what they used it for, but it happens without any energy input, so it'd be a cheap way to extract copper from solution.
@peregrinestudio that's awesome you got those stories of your grandpa. Mine didn't talk about the war too much. He was a cook on a battleship, I forget which one. He left me some paperwork years ago that I keep in my dad's safe. I should go get that some day
@@chadhoggan4139 Captains and cooks are equally necessary.
I think those "spokes" off of the air strip are where they parked the planes. That round shape in the ground might be where they put the radar.
That air strip might of been a reserve action base to protect L.A. during WW2 , doesn't seem to be any old building foot prints showing base support , very interesting .
I spent a week in Mojave with some people I met 2 days before. Best week of my life. One of the guys told me to read this book which reminded me of The Matrix movie but with more information. And it changed my life…so I’m paying it forward: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from time travel, dreams, death, the afterlife, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years. Highly recommend it.
Rule #1, never try to take a nap in a old mine around chigg, he will drop a rock on your head!! 😆
Sounds kinda ridiculous but yer supposed to hollar down before ya chuck a Boulder down a mine shaft
Maybe that guy everyone is looking for fell into one of those mine holes? Scary thinking about it!
kenny veach
maybe, who knows....
What guy ?
@@alanjones9093 kenny veach
Yeah they should look inside.
As a hobby I look at satellite imagery and identify abandoned mines and other interesting things, mostly in Arizona. I've found a lot of cool stuff and learned a lot through this hobby. I found your channel/this video, pretty cool stuff, in line with what I like. EDIT: For example, Corona Satellite Calibration Targets all over the desert south of Casa Grande, AZ. There's so many cool things just left in the middle of nowhere with stories to tell.
Yeah, I live in a similar area. Using Google Earth I've been able to see Indian ruins and religious sites. Most people have no idea they are there.
I live in Arizona as well. Anyway to maybe get some info from you to visit these ?
@@redbaronrefining5322 What area are you looking to explore in or around and what kind of objects are you interested in?
@@Crismodin I love seeing old gold mines, or uranium mines would be cool, but from what I’ve read they’re more in northern Arizona.
I’m in santan valley, so anything between santan and Tucson maybe?
I truly love to visit places and even better if I can find the history on it with some historic photos to identify stuff.
I actually just came back from Bodie mine in California and man, I was in heaven! Even got my own private tour by a nice ranger!
Maybe you two could do a collab?
Desert adventure or River? You don't make it easy for me when I look at your Playlists! Every other one on the river? Or every 3rd one in the desert? Nothing but good choices. Thanks, Beau.
I remember being with my Uncle on his farm in Ireland. In the upper fields were open shafts from the Copper Mine.
No signs, no fence, just a dark hole in the earth that nightmares are made of...
I lived in Boron for a short time and a couple of trailer parks near Edwards in the 50's when my Dad worked at Edwards AFB. In the Boy Scouts we hiked throughout the Hinkley area and loved finding 50 caliber shell casings from strafing runs made by fighter planes years before.
We were driving up 395 at night and stop to eat dinner off the side of the road in our trailer. All at once the sky was lit up like day time and this loud roar shook our table. On the other side of the road some sort of rocket motor with horizontal flames 100 feet long blasted away for 30-40 seconds.
Rode down one near Barstow (Owl Basin Campground) on my friend's motorcycle. Luckily, I didn't get hurt because it was only ten feet deep, and the bottom was shaped Like pill. The weight of the motorcycle was totally absorbed. I was unscathed except a few scratches. My friend saw it happen right in front of him.
If that happened while I was alone, I would have been left for dead.
There are so many things hiding right in front of you in the Deserts, that you don't see passing by on Highways! You never know what you can find while exploring, not to mention all the bodies!
I hear people go missing out there I used to ride my road king from DHS to Vegas through kelso and amboy it was a little spooky at night by myself I was an iron worker on the volcano at the mirage hotel and made the trip every weekend it’s hot as hell don’t miss California either
10 bodies were found in the lower Buckeye area last year in the search for one missing person. This is along the Hassayampa river.
As an older teen, I found one of those mines and crawled down the wooden ladder. Got to a ledge and found some "sweating" dynamite. That convinced even that teen brain I should get out of there! The rusting tin cans is weird, but as close as it is to I-40, I would say it is likely a dump site of food cans for the workers who built the interstate.
Good chance the cans are from the big 'tin can' recycling drives they used to do in the big urban centers in the 70's and 80's to make the tree huggers feel like th eir crying mattered.
The sad reality was that metal is the lowest grade junk and near useless and worthless for melting down to make anything from, so most of it just got quietly dumped in rural landfills and remote areas like this video shows.
Same game we play today with most recyclables that are worthless to make the same fools shut up and leave normal people alone for a while. 😋
@@tcmtech7515 sad
@@tcmtech7515 they were steel in the 70s, not tin. If they didnt use tin back then, it wouldnt have been such a crap product, but thats the corrupt metals industry for you! Lotta talk, no substance!
@@tcmtech7515 So you don’t believe in recycling. You don’t either. Moron.
@@tcmtech7515 Not really foolish to want to make things better but you are absolutely right that recyclables are usually not recyclable.
From southern England. You showed a shot of a big concrete-lined pit on an old USAF air-base. Here all over Britain we find similar, smaller places, some recent, some dating back 3 to 4 thousand years, clay-lined pits atop chalk hills, built & used by herdsmen to gather water for their flocks. No sweat!
There is a can pile out my way like that as well. Mines in the area. Not sure why they piled them up like that but it sure makes a good place to find some rattlers in the summer.
landfill from the 1950s. everything else rotted away except the metal
Yup an old dump.
Someone commented that the can metal was used to extract copper from a solution for mining.
What do they say, a bad day exploring the desert, is still better than any day setting home.
I am from Palm Springs and used to go out there all the time. Well I met an old timer who lived in that desert and told me when WWll started Paton left all the training equipment in that desert. I was told there are Harleys with side cars and weapons still packed in grease and everything you would think our military trained with all out there buried somewhere. I don't know because I never got a good chance to explore. But I will say this the guy who told me was absolutely sure it was there. He may have been crazy but all these years later I still think about it
This was so cool. We went through Barstow many times on our travels. You might say I am a Desert rat. I still live in the Desert, but it looks like it will look like San Bernadino if it is up to the powers that be! We don't have fringe toed lizards anymore, but they were here 53 years ago when we moved here. It used to be very quiet and lucky if you saw a car traveling on Hwy 10 but not anymore. It is a very noisy freeway. Oh well I think they call that progress.
That hole where the road ends --- looks a lot like some of the potholes in our roads here in Michigan. =/
lol,,yep. Pure Michigan
avoid potholes
Lol
My old neck of the woods.
There's something magical about the Mojave, especially out on the 40 between Barstow and Needles. Between the ancient volcanic geology and mineral rich mountains; it's one of my favorite places on earth.
I kinda miss it, but going back entails living in a town like Barstow, Needles, Topoc, Bullhead, or the Victor Valley. I don't miss those places at all. Nah, as soon as I get things working, it's back off to Utah for me.
Awesome place. I love the southwest. I've stayed in Needles a few different times
Lived out in Joshua Tree, Landers & 29 Palms for 10 years spanning the early 80's and 90's. Now I'm 60 retired on the beach in Florida, and yet the desert still is and was my favorite place and time I ever had. I miss it very much (I would never go back. Too sad to see how it's so overdeveloped now)
Utah is an amazing place to explore too
Really? I'm getting rather sick of things here in Utah. At least in and around Salt Lake City. The cost of living will be on par with San Francisco very soon. Unless I overhaul my life drastically I will never be able to afford to buy a home in the place I was born and raised. I simply don't make enough money.
My home town Is Barstow , I do miss the desert , but not California..
Had a good childhood friend of mine who wound up a quadriplegic due to riding his dirt bike into one of those vertical mine shafts
Our Mohave desert is incredible! So many hidden jems and history. You’ll be here for a long time searching all the old mines and volunteer cabins hidden in our mountains! They are everywhere! Happy searching Chigg!! And Happy New Year Sir !!! ❤️❤️❤️ stay safe.
What are volunteer cabins? Please
My most favorite place on earth. My other half hates the desert. I hope to have my ashes scattered there.
My Dad loved to take us out camping out there. My entire childhood and life was shaped and influenced by that.
I was stationed at Edwards AFB and there is so much the desert has to offer. So much history out there.
Would you happen to have a location of some good spots to explore. My friends and I love looking at stuff like this. We still go to the busted dam every now and again
@@sefan1317 I know there was an abandoned mine somewhere in Rosamond but I never went to it. I hear there's a lot of abandoned stuff south of where the base gate is too.
@@ladylathe2122 I'll try Google mapping it and checking it out, thanks!
I enjoyed your tour it was fun and exiting. at the end of he video i saw your truck on a tow truck did your vehicle die or something just curious
That was awesome Chigger! Love watching your content man, its an adventure taking us to some strange places in the great US desert. Always fascinates me what is out there. Love from Australia!
Ever looked at Western Australia with Google Earth? There is some strange terrain out there.
@@modernarchive7502 oh I know someone who was a geologist.. some weird stuff out in the desert of Australia…. very spooky!!
I wonder how many cars and missing people are down in that hole? When you were throwing rocks it sounded like they were hitting metal! Someone should create a barrier around that hole. Interesting video ! Your friend and fan, Kevin
Then I'll have to find a different hole to throw my dead hookers in
For real, it should be taped off. There needs to be warning signs all around that area.
In this day and age I'm surprised the military hasn't been ordered to clean up the entire desert mess they created. Including barricading that hole off.
A barrier around the hole why?
If you don't have the intelligence to know your surroundings then maybe you should fall in a hole
@@Youtubsucks5 What if a family took their kids hiking up there?
A factory must have dumped all those boxes!! Scaring with that big hole and no fence around it or warning-signs!!
Another abandoned government site.
My first time seeing this page, this is dope! Clearly you’re a pro at this but mate please be careful out there, always tell someone where you are etc.. something about desserts for me, I always feel like someone/something is watching
Trucker here, did some hikes in that area with the cans, should be mountain spring rd. You missed the old james dean car that seemed to have flipped off a mountain. and the amount of glass just caked out there. Also many cool ravines and Huge jack rabbits
This reminds me of a story a coworker told me 40 years ago. He and some buddies had been doing some major 4-wheeling around Nederland, Co (lots of silver mines). They roared up a hill, topped it, and barely stopped just in front of a timber-lined 12’ X 12’ shaft! They could see ~100’ down it before mist got too heavy. After numerous tries to loft a big rock down the center, one finally went straight down without hitting the sides…they never heard it hit anything! (Some of the shafts there went down 2500 feet). Good thing they got stopped…
I dropped a rock.. counted to 18 or something like that before it hit. Top of a hill. California desert. Old Mining town. Ridgecrest area.
@@jiphy Cool!
As a reference, I think it takes 17 seconds for a rock to hit the water 400' down one of my well. It usually hits the sides a bit.
This must be the legendary Mel's Hole Art Bell talked about. Its location was never revealed on his show.
"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter”.
No dude, no.
Love your sweet pets, the video was good too !
I live in a small California desert town and there are many dangerous random mineshafts in people's back yards and vacant lots.
Imagine all the undocumented shafts and pits
From random people throughout HISTORY extracting resources!
Brother just be careful man. This is how people disappear :( we can't lose ya brother. I don't want to have to make a video of the last place anyone seen the chigg :(
Ever see the arrows that are placed all around the west? They were placed to help pilots stay on course.
US mail service pilots
Those California gophers are getting huge! 🤯😁
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Send in Carl the green keeper from the Bushwood country club 😂😂
They're mutant Canadian gophers taking advantage of our open borders.
Wow look at all those cans! How’d they all get there??
Maybe someone attempting one of those recycled material earth ships and having to quit early? I would like to try something similar.
Can dumps are historic, archeologists can tell how people lived, the products they used, etc. It's pretty interesting, as you can date sites from the canning technology used.
Saw a documentary on the national road. When people got more mobile after WWII road trippers would often stop in the same spot to eat one of the popular travel foods were can goods. They said huge piles of empty cans were common along the roads..
Cool! America started littering as soon as fast food appeared! That stopping for lunch scenario makes perfect sense.
George Davis ; When I was a youngster, my family made many trips from California to Arizona and Oklahoma which was where our Roots were. If we happened to pass through a town close to lunch time, dad would park and he and mom would go into a grocery store, buy a loaf of bread, some mayo, Bologna, paper cups and a gallon of milk. Dad would then drive outside of town, find a shady spot and mama would begin making sandwiches and daddy was pouring milk and passing it around. I don't remember us ever going into a restaurant for a meal when I was young. It was much too expensive for a family of eight souls.
I saw that documentary on the old Lincoln highway too. The people were called "tin can travellers" I believe. It was during the early days of the automobile when the very first interstate highways, or probably better called roads, were built.
Yep Litter Bugs started in the Mid 1940s And now look at the mess we make !!! Hell we even Left 850 Lbs Of Human Poop on the Moon, and it's still in Perfect Condition, They were too lazy to bring it back home i Guess !!!
@@rogerhegemier8491 they probably would of put in in bags like dog crap fly it the entire way back and throw it on the ground right next to a garage can...lol
Thank you for exploring the desert. I went out in the desert a short way once and I am a city kid and OMG I was scared to death. So I am fascinated by your exploration video. Thanks so muchfor this.
I live by pyramid lake near Reno and there is hundreds of mine minutes from my house, most of which are closed off, but me and my friends like to explore the “safer ones”
From Reno too. Seen anything unorthodox out there?
Camp Essex airfield from WW2 lots of online information and pictures from WW2. The 500,000 gallon concrete reservoir was filled by two 750 foot deep wells.
Interesting what there is hidden and forgotten in different locations. I live near a housing complex that has been abandoned since the mid 60's. Houses still standing. No trespassing signs all over the place ,but people still wander around the old houses. I never entered the area. Only heard about it from friends. The whole area was built in the Late 30's Early 40's before WW 2 and was used for a research center. Who knows what that research was.
Where’s this complex located
@@cbassdela I second this
Yes . . . me too. Where is it?
I’m camping here now. It’s amazing.
The milky way....🏜️
Me too. I'm right behind you.
Plenty of public land out there for you to use
I love watching the places you go. I've never been anywhere to see all this stuff. Very interesting. If you find something you want to keep are you allowed to keep it? I've seen some videos where there's everything left behind.
Isn't it negligent to not have huge warning signs prior to that massive hole in the ground? What the heck?!?! That is so extremely dangerous it blows my mind
Have you ever been to that part of the country? There's thousands of square miles of what you see in these videos. Trying to put signs around every hazard would be impossible. (Though it'd probably thrill the environmentalists to see thousands of signs around the desert, lol...)
If you go off the beaten path (say like, a real road), you're assuming all risks. Don't become a Darwin Award.
Yes most of the ones known about are fenced off , but there are thousands of them that are not reported or known about. Sadly it normally takes somebody on a dirt bike riding into it before it's reported and fenced Happens quite a lot out in the Mojave Desert
@@Backroad_Junkie and many of those roads do have signs ‘primitive road. Not maintained. Travel at your own risk.’ At least where I live in Mohave county, Arizona, I see those signs regularly
It's just too far out in the middle of nowhere
Yes, lots of liability, if you can track the real owner down, but as Junkie & Rooster & Nick say, there are just too many to police. A few are fenced off now.
Good video. I've run into many of these types of "dig outs" in the desert areas of California and Arizona. My partner of twenty years died in a Jeep rollover last year so it is difficult to go it alone. My interest in your videos has increased!
Sad thing about those holes is animals fall down there get trapped like the endangered desert tortious.
that first pit looks similar to the tin mine entrances in the hills around herberton far north queensland..... real dangerous at night if youre out bushwalking... not many are grille covered either.... you should try and put large rocks in the vehicle approaches.... good vid thanks for the upload
Well that air strip and the cement hole in the ground ... looking like alien landing sites LOL .
Wow!!! A really good reason you don't drive around at night in the dark in an unfamiliar place. It could be your last ride. Glad you set up camp before night fall chigg. Lol. 😁👍👍
I thought you were talking about the for sale sign in the middle of nowhere. Could those cans be part of the mines dump? People had to eat
Really cool- also appreciate that the video actually had the item in it that I saw before I clicked on it. Also interesting that water was where you found it.
OK TIME TOO GET HOME ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR GO GET A SERVICE FOR THE TRUCK AND YOURSELF EVERYONE HAVE A BETTER NEW YEAR FROM SCOTLAND .
Man...that rock you the down the hole sounded like it hit something that mad a hollow sounding metallic thunk...like maybe the hood or roof of a vehicle.