PNW Exploring: Finally Finding the Huge Mine Site
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- V1E27: In this episode, I finally make it back into a massive mine site that is only accessible by a narrow overgrown trail that's deep in the heart of the Pacific Northwest mountains. I had an idea of what to expect going in, but I didn't know just exactly how massive this site was, and what secrets it held.
Lost historic finds, breathtaking views, and surprises abound in this backcountry adventure as I Explore the PNW.
Watch until the very end for bonus blooper footage.
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RUclips started recommending me smaller channels, and im glad to find this one! Enjoyed seeing your corner of the world
Thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it.
I post once a week, so feel free to check back in if your still interested 👍🏻
You can actually connect to this spot all the way from Macgruder (Or hoodoo pass if you don't mind a zig zag.). I explored around here last summer via Skalkaho, to Macruder with my Subaru and camped for few days and drove around. BIll Timms cabin is in this neck of the woods I think. This is the only part of lower 48 that reminds me of Alaska in remote and questionable long roads in the baclcountry. AWD and 4x4 is paramount over clearance, but extra clearance will get you into a few spots but not extremely necesssary if you have driving experience.
Yeah there are definitely more logging roads, fire roads, and old mine roads near me than actual off road trails.
Exploring all the miles of old roads into the mountains is the best. Finding sites like this are just icing on the cake! 👍🏻👍🏻
We were at this site this weekend too, and explored the workings. I’ll have the video up soon. Great shots with the drone!
No way?! I’ll have to check your video out!
Thanks for the awesome feedback 😎👍🏻
Where is this?
I mostly explore in North Idaho and some of Montana.
Hell yeah! Nice to see the old sites that are kept clean, great video.
My thoughts exactly! I didn’t see any modern trash while I was up there. Always good to see 👍🏻
Thanks for watching!
Hell yeah! Travis was just here too! Great place to explore!
Yeah it is! I can’t believe how big that site is! It’s unreal
Great vid! You did it justice. We gotta go for a field trip up here soon.
Heck yeah man!
I did an overnight camp this past Saturday and am working on the video now.
WHen I think Pacific North West I think the Tongass and Rain and Devils club. I would consider part of the northern intermountain west.
The Bitteroots are some beautiful country.
that open cut your were seeing is called a stope, the lower drift entrance in my guess would have been a haulage drift to get the waste rock out
That makes sense. I’ve never seen anything like it on that scale before.
Thanks for watching!
It takes a bit of common sense and understanding to actually find those out of the way places . I had a friend once that took me to a old drag line and we found tons of fossils mostly plants but a few shellfish . Thanks buddy be safe out there :)
Well said! That’s awesome that you were able to find fossils.
Thanks for watching and stay safe as well!
Your excitement was so great you forgot to tell us the name of this mine...what was mined here...how long in operation...amount of refined what? was removed...ho hummmmmmm...zzzzzzz~
Unfortunately I don’t usually mention the names of the mine sites or where I go exploring because that’s how places get ruined. Even just the name of a mine can make it easy to search and find. Most channels do the same thing unless it’s a well known off road trail or area.
Thanks for watching though and feel free to check out more mine site exploring videos if you like seeing the history. 👍🏻
Keep it up man. Have you checked out any of the old ghost towns in north idaho? There also pretty cool.
Thanks for watching! I haven’t checked those out yet, but I’d love to! I feel like there is so much hidden in the backcountry 😁👍🏻
So where EXACTLY is this site so I and others may enjoy this site?
Unfortunately I don’t name or say the locations of where I go out exploring/find. It’s the downside of online. So many of the places I go don’t get visited often, and if I name the mine site or exact area I’m in, they can easily searched out, become overrun and/or abused. That’s how areas and trails get fenced off or closed.
Most channels do this as well unless it’s a publicized trail or off road area.
It would be nice to know exactly where these places are. We have a side x side and like to explore.
Yeah I understand. Getting out and exploring new places is the best!
Unfortunately I’ve come across too many of these places that are covered in trash, mining equipment/buildings vandalized, and even some locations fenced off after previously being open/accessible.
I’m by no means saying you are one of these people, but it is the downside of being online.
It’s similar to 4x4 trails. The well known/popular ones are public knowledge, but the “off the beaten path” ones are the ones that get closed down due to misuse.
@@ExplorethePNW I guess I understand. We have run across some trash which is a real shame. How about giving us a state and general location to give us a starting point.
It really is a shame. Why do people go all the way out into the backcountry and not bring their trash back out with them? 🤦🏼♂️
I explore in Idaho and western Montana.
Any idea what they were mining and when? That waste rock pile is massive!
It really is! It must’ve been a MASSIVE operation at one point.
Thanks for watching! Feel free to check out some of my other mining videos.
Looks like it was mostly silver from 1940’s-1970’s-ish, although that’s just based on looking at old data.
I wonder if they had big foot bothering them in the mining operations. Looks remote enough where anything could hide out in them there hills.
Haha maybe!
Whatever it was, it was a massive operation at one point. I love finding old sites like this.
How can the open vein cut be "unreal" when it exists...?
The size and scope of it doesn’t transfer well on camera. All the miles and sites I’ve explored, I’ve never seen anything to that extent.