The Forgotten TRAGEDY of a Nevada Gold Mining Town
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Previously on my Nevada adventure I took you along as I met up with my 2 good buddies, Tom and Scott and we headed off deep into the Eastern Nevada back country. During our exploration we were rewarded with incredible scenery, traveled over 80 miles of remote trails, found a beautiful camp site, ate some great chow and Tom was bit by a rubber snake and lived to tell about it.
On this next leg of our journey, we make are way deeper in to Nevada to an old mining ghost town that has a strange and sad history, we wrestle with Mother Natures wrath and Tom gets hurt again.
Part 1 of this adventure: • Everything was Going G...
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Just bought my first Jeep. 2018 JLUR. Im now addicted to this channel LOL. Great content with way less ego than a lot of the other offroad channels I was checking out.
This is definitely a good channel to get addicted to. I started watching when Brad was still doing a lot of rig walk-arounds.
Seems you can't take Tom anywhere without him getting injured! Guy is a walking disaster!
LOL!
😂😂😂😂
That's what I'm saying! 😂 Tom can't go!
Seriously! That guy is really accident prone. 😂
LoL😂Great show Brad, I enjoyed it all.🇺🇲👍🦅🛻
May have to wrap Tom in bubble wrap 😂
Mines needed timber’s for shoring up roofs & sides of tunnels, and teams of men & pack animals would go to wherever there was growth of substantial sizes to harvest & bring back to camp. Once horses or mules were phased out by automobiles , they used them instead to transport materials back , and to me at least that accounts for those cut trees , empty cans & such that one finds while out & about wherever there is a history of mining , even as far as 100-150 miles from some mining areas . Gotta remember there was no Home Depot or Lowe’s or Dixie-lines back then to just order materials from, so men & miners did whatever they needed to continue efforts in those remote places . Always enjoy your videos Brad , keep ‘em coming 😎👍
It was hard work for sure getting stuff up there and I'm pretty sure there still is no Home Depot nearby! LOL!
Roads that are being used today to overland. The old timers did it with horses and wagons. Then early gas powered vehicles.
Hey Brad, great series, and love the whole idea of a medical support vehicle.
We had a very serious medical emergency that was purely a freak accident involving another family. We were at a Roadhouse in outback Australia and a man simply stepping over the a-frame of his trailer tore his Leg open severely. It was worse than a shark bite, really.
If we weren't close I'm not sure what would have happened. It took 3 hours to get additional help and we weren't even completely isolated. You just can't even imagine what can happen in a heart beat. I'd attach a photo but it's very graphic so I won't. We found that a pre dressing photo helped the EMT's assess what to do without having to remove the pressure bandage on arrival. Keep it up.
The first aid mock ups , fantastic learning so much you never know when needed great job boys . Brilliant video loved it. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍🇺🇸
Brad, I'm very impressed with the push towards first aid with the knowledge and the tools. After seeing your kit, I have one suggestion that could make it invaluable. Offer a rip-away velcro attachment. That way you can quickly grab the entire bag and bring it to the patient. I'm certain that you have a lot of knowledge and experience to to know how important that would be. Thank you for your content and your goals of improving safety in our community.
Totally agree, thanks for suggesting a “tear away” bag. I do have two tear away (First Aid and Trauma) bags that Velcro to the back of the headrest of our Wrangler Recon front seats. I picked the bag only, up at Overland Expo a few years back. I will be buying Brad’s bag to refill mine with the right stuff. Thanks Brad!
@@AdventuresUnlimited-xc3gp I have one right now. A generic, (probably made in china) Amazon kit. The base goes around the headrest. Probably like you, I have been swapping out the generic kit stuff with better,
It’s really crazy when you come upon these old mining town and outpost communities and think about what it took for you to get there with todays tech, what those before had to engineer and endure is admirable and inspiring….great video, thanks for taking us along!
Great video Brad. It's been awhile since I've commented. Always enjoy your videos and taking us along for the ride. Seeing those fighter jets in person I bet was awesome!
Excellent, thank you, take care and take Tom to a safe house 🤣😎⭐️🤩
Cool video. My mouth watered with that breakfast burrito!
Brad, honestly this is one of my favorite videos of yours. Sharing the locations and the history makes this series well worth the watch.
Thank you.. For all the labors of filming.im in my 70s now.dont get out in the hills any more.alot of trails u do.ive done.still have the ole 58 cj5.she sits now, like me..but I get a cup of coffee& watch your adventures.brings back memorys..thank you sir..semper fi..
Great video! I like all your stuff but the adventure videos are my favorite
Would love to see a walk around on that escapod trailer
Wow really enjoyed this one!!
This is my favorite style content. More plaese. :)
I remember riding my quad to Delamar Mine from the backside of the mountain range. Beautiful area. Wild mustangs everywhere. The cans are from the old miners in the 1930s and 40s that were mining silver and copper.
Great job Brad. Such a beautiful area. thanks for sharing.
You can estimate the age of can dumps based on several traits. For cans opened with church keys, the size, width and length of the pierced opening is tell tale. Larger, wider church keys are older, so the larger wider opening in the cans indicate more age. Flat topped beer cans, and those early openers first appear in 1939 or so, and start replacing cone-top cans fairly quickly. The smaller church keys appear after WW II, probably around 1950. Other traits are liniked to how the cans are made and sealed. A food guess about your camp is that it may have been a charcoal making camp. The evens used to burn the charcoal would be a tell tale.
You should publish some of your favorite camp recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert s.
Thanks for sharing this. What an amazing trip!
In my opinion travelling is the best experience in life, have fun
First thank you for your service!!! I have some rather unique experience with Navy "Docs". Former MM1(SS), EMT, RC Advanced First Aid And VPR Instructor here. I'd have put the tourniquets. In a external pouch with an oversized velcro flap to open flap and easily grab without digging. I would have made the bag red to stand out.
My in the shipyard for a major refit. My wife came to pick me up and parked next to the Paint Shop waiting for the shift turnover finish. Well the Oven exploded, picked the car up, witnessed by a shipmate, 2.5 stories and did a 2.5 flips and landed upside down. Doc was with my wife before i got there. Both shifts immediately left what they were doing and secured the scene, No Fire but every available fire extinguisher was on the scene. Besides the minor injuries a traumatic aortic aneurysm on the decending aorta was discovered about 5 days later when xrays were getting the final close out viewing.
Now she is fine though the surgical recovery is a story in itself.
You are coming a long great with this project thanks😊for the video and hard work you are putting in.
Really enjoying you adding the quick medical troubleshoots. And love the ghost town.
Thank you for giving history of the places you visit. Really enjoyed this video. Can’t wait to get my Jeep out of the shop and on the trail.
Nevada is an amazing place. It seems empty/abandoned today. 100 plus years ago, people were living and mining in every canyon.
Im loving the look of your gladiator
Amazing adventure, the back country of Nevada is a very beautiful place. Lots of history and the people who lived there had a hard time surviving. Stay safe and keep exploring
Brad, how did that Escapod do? Did you get a walk-around filmed?
There's some amazing places to explore. I hope to get out there sometime soon. Thanks for sharing. I will be getting the new med kit soon as well!
PS,the snake video got me. I thought it was real. The intro was great.
Great video. Really liking the sprinkling of first aid content. Definitely an area overlooked by many when planning for this type of trip. And agreed on the people that lived and worked in those mining towns… a different breed. I lived in the heart of SW CO mining country for ~20 yrs and constantly marveled at what they did.
Can’t wait to get my trailrecon med pack
Thanks for show casing another beautiful camping location with history lessons. Demonstrating some first aid really brings an awareness we need. You had me going at the snake bite. Thought it was real. Glad just a training exercise.
Love Delamar NV it was good to see much has not changed from when i was there 6 years ago . Nice series .
Brad, fantastic idea adding the First Aid aspect to your videos. Keep it up..
For years, I dreamt of seeing this country for myself. A little hard from Australia though. It's nice to be able to get this close at least. Thanks.
Nice job on the first aid kit
Starting a Sunday morning wit TrailRecon and coffee on a chilly winter Ontario, Canada day is epic!! Looking forward to your review on the AEV HD suspension towing the trailer. I am thinking of the same set up for my Mojave. Cheers
Another great adventure video, you have elevated your coffee making to an electric percolator . Obviously having power makes all the difference, good looking coffee maker, What brand, I figure that you did some research before bringing on the trail? I hope that Tom's wrist was okay. Happy trails! Thank you for your service in the Navy, us Marines appreciate what you do. SF
These are the kind of adventures Mike and I love to do when we explore the west. That wind though...this is why we went with an induction cooker. We can cook inside or out with our Alu-Cab. As always, love the video! Hope that shoulder is not bothering you too much.
Thanks Brad! I know these videos take a lot of work to put together and your videos just keep getting better from editing to shot angles and even narration. You make me want to go get a jeep and get out there. Maybe when I retire and my wife agrees to it. ;)
Good story lotta good tips next time if you bring Tom bring bubble wrap just joking I like the first aid kit😆👍
Thanks Brad for sharing another great trip. The hardships of that era working those mines is hard to imagine. Love your choice of La Mexicana salsa, by the way. LOL. Regarding Delmar and the fighter jets observed. Wondering if the Top Gun exercises were happening out of Fallon? As a teenager I remember camping out at Ocotillo Wells and watching fighter jets duel in the skies above. That was when Top Gun school was at Miramar.
I was stationed at Balast Point at the Torpedo Shop and loved to see and hear the A6's come over the Ridge to drop into North Island. Love San Diego best place to be stationed.
Come on Tom get it together
Awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Not sure if the new intro style has been used before in your videos with the walking away from camp, coffee and breakfast but it was cool to see. Trauma kit looks great too!
You would have never gotten the smell out of your camper if you cooked inside. As always, great work thanks for the content1
Brad, what a great video! Even though I'm currently in Greece I felt like I was there with you..
I’m surprised that Tom didn’t end up with silicosis. 🤣🤣🤣
Thank You Tom& Scott!!!! You made the trip Interesting. Love to learn from you gentlemen...
Brad excellent company as always!!!!!! Looking forward to seeing your next Adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just curious how many fractured bones you encountered in your Naval career?????
Another awesome adventure and great video! Love this gladiator build, could we possibly see a review video on the high capacity springs in the future?
Delamar is a great trip, South and just a bit west is a large dry lake bed the air force occasionally uses for dirt runway training. You are right, they are beautiful sunsets from Delamar. Great stargazing also. Also, Caliente is a great and friendly town, I don't live there, but I do like to visit on adventures when in that area. Good video.
I love the educational twist. I always enjoy your history commentary. I am really liking you faux medical emergencies. Very applicable. Thanks
How do you tiage a fracture? He went over knowing it was a fracture. In the wild we will just hear a yell and holding the arm.
Love your Jeep hope mine looks like yours one day 👍
Brad, another awesome video. Please add Big Bend National Park to your list of destinations! It's remote and very gorgeous, would be perfect for your channel.
Awesome
Tom is a unlucky guy!!!
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Tom could be a case study for NOLS.
Strong recommendation for the Pony Express Trail across Nevada further North.
I wonder if an old flood washed a lot of that stuff around from a camp way back in the day. Some of those tress look broken and cut so its is quite a cool mystery!
That's some pretty impressive omelet folding Brad! Great video - love your videos on my home state. Lots of those Junipers right outside my door. Super excited about that kit! You should do a review of that Topo 2!
Thanks 👍
Too fluffy because of the milk
@@rubiconadventurewithscotty3258 I'm a water guy myself - get the same results and I like fluffy eggs, LOL!
@@TimRoyalPastortimI love fluffy eggs with ham but a fluffy omlette is just too puffy
@@rubiconadventurewithscotty3258 I'll stay with the fluffy ones, but I get it... Still would love a trail review of that Topo 2
Being relatively near Luke AFB, we have been camped in the desert and seen fighters shooting flares and dog-fighting. Sadly, when in SAR, we were called out to search for a pilot near Lake Alamo. RIP, Sir.
Great suggestion!
Our Lake Alamo has Great SMB fishing, The Scorpion Arch, and the slot canyons of Maggie Wash - It is just across the CA/AZ border so Brad should definitely consider it a stop on his trips Eastbound.
I really like the first aid info, I have taken many first aid classes over the years. But like anything, if you don't use it you may lose it. Keep up the refresher classes. Thanks.
percolating coffee maker FTW!
Brad you can’t be sighted for trespassing until you have been formally trespassed from private property. And these two incidents can’t be at the same time unless you refuse to leave when told by LEO.
unless there is a gate, fenceline or sign posted. That is your warning.
It is crappy that the RR would charge for trespassing when there’s no signs. Per NRS, for a citable offense there has to be warning, in rural areas, signs. Might’ve been in trouble on the other side of the gate, not sure.
It's good to see and refresh safety and first aid.
Make me remember my EMT training from way back 30 yrs ago.
What light bar are you running?
Hey Brad kits looking good… couple suggestions Velcro back panel that allows you to grab quickly from stored location. The other thing might consider is lanyard or packet to store the CATs so they don’t pop off.. keep up the good work love the videos
Another great video! I think Tom needs a bubble wrap suit 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Is your friends Power Wagon the same one you had? I see a lot of similarities. Just curious.
LOL! He's a little accident prone! Their PW's are similar, but not its not my old one.
This was a great video.
As far as those jets go, you were almost directly east of Groom Lake. I’d love to know what kind of jets those were. Of course they could have been from other bases, but I can dream can’t I? 😊
My younger brother was backpacking in the Sierras. He stepped on a flat, granite plate and it broke. His leg plunged through. Edges sharper than razorblades. Luckily, one of the guys he was with had a bleed pack. They were able to stop the bleeding. One guy ran down to a packhorse camp. They packed him out on horseback.
Excellent video. Great Med bag. Chest seals??
I would have to camp in that town!
If you think Caliente is nice, one of these days you really need to go visit northern New Mexico, the aspen trees are absolutely incredible in the fall and you need to go take a trip up to Chama New Mexico and maybe even take a ride on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. That train ride one of the best scenic train rides in the United States, and I think it would make for some good jeep ridimg with all those dirt roads in that area.
I like your channel is the best in the world 🌎🌎
In the Texas scrub country, we called them "Mesquite Choppers". Not only did they use the wood to make small shelters from wood and mud on public land, but they would collect the wood in the back of their trucks and trailers and take it into town to sell it. I bet there was one in that area.
That triage tent around your kitchen might have come in handy that night.
You are up pretty close to a place called sunny side by the local people it’s after almo and before Elko. Adams McGill is the name where the three ponds are at . they’ll be off to your north from the road and there’s a hot spring up there not to mention some good fishing at Haymeadow . Also some good trails for 4x4 vehicles. Also you’re pretty close to the pony express trail. I seen In a past video you have made it to sunny side. Hopefully you get to the hot spring crossing over the 3 reservoir .
Cool adventure, where did you get the seat covers? They look great
I just installed apex quick deflators on my truck, and oh man do they work good. I don’t know about durability yet, but good initial experience so far.
What brand are those seat covers? Didn’t see them in the build list
Long ago we would drive from Vegas to the Delmar area to cut down Christmas trees! They weren't the greatest looking trees, but they were fresh and smelled good in our home! It was a family trip, with my in-laws, about 4 to 5 families. We didn't leave trash though, we packed it out!!
I enjoy visiting Delamar - the most productive mining operation in NV. On the east side of Caliente is a cool trail called Caliente Tower Road, which winds around to Elgin, NV. Plus, there's a secret spot off hwy 93 some call Stonehenge Replica. It's on private property, so you need permission to check it out - it entails a quick check in and check out process. After that, you'll see some old train cars, reconditioned old fire trucks and farm equipment, a labyrinth, a mini zoo and a modern take on Stonehenge. It's amazing because it's out in the middle of nowhere! Just don't tell anyone. It's a secret. :)
There is one near St. Mary's on the Colorado River that was built out of cement by a local contractor as a WW1 Memorial. Stand in the middle and there is no wind or noise.
The movie “PURE LUCK” might’ve been inspired by Tom 😂
Definitely a great trip and time well spent.
To keep your kitchen knives sharp longer, use the spine of the blade to scrape things off the cutting board. Otherwise, you're making the cutting edge dull. :))
That’s a great kit that you have put together. I’m wondering what your thoughts were on not including a Sam Split? There are so many great uses for them in addition to what they’re supposed to be used for.
Brad love the vids! What cab rack, lightbar are those? Also donyou glue your patches up?
Need the link to your trail recon first aid kit
Hey Brad! Great video! Quick question, what are you using to mount your Baofeng ham radio in the cab?
Brad, it may have been asked already, but how did your truck pull with the new lift and wheels/tires? What was your new mpg with the new setup? As always, great video, and I look forward to seeing your next one! All the best!
Back in the olden day, before plastics took the world over, oil can spouts were metal and had a sharp knife blade on them that punched through the metal lid and held them in place so you could pour oil without spilling a drop. Seems like that style was still in use in the 1970s? Were you on part of the old Lincoln Trail?
Those cut off trees are cedar, so perhaps they were harvested for fence posts. Maybe the oil was used to lubricate the saws? I'm just speculating and I enjoyed the video.
At first, I didn’t like the red seats. But now it makes more sense for a first aid wagon. You might have a guy like Tom bleeding all over the place. Tom is a little bit like Kenny from South Park.
I think you guys are just Flexing when you show us the food you prepared!!! 😂
@trailrecon what is the brand of your red seat cover? It’s look very good
Hey Brad! What brand are those seat covers? I've been trying to find some good ones for my gladiator. Thanks!
The tree stump mystery. Brad I travel out in the west with a historian and he explained to me that the trees were cut and burned to make charcoal. If the charcoal makers didn't have a kiln they would make or find a pit to stack the wood and fire it. when the time was right would cover it up with soil. You can find these "fire pits" as depressions with charcoal residue. Why make charcoal? In the west smelters were located in mining districts and cutting trees and make charcoal was the fuel for rendering the ore.
Simple lesson on first aide will do just fine without a dramatization. 😎
That first aid kit is pretty cool. But you should add a pad with a few 9-line forms. or at least a civilian version. Forest Service fire side has a civ version of a 9 line which is an awesome thing as it helps people calm down in an emergency and write down what is going on so when transmitting to an emergency responder they can get the whole picture to determine what aid resources are needed.
As for that old oil can. USFS (and BLM too I think) are required to survey and protect items that are 50 years old and older. So, yep that old beer can your friend threw out the window as a teenager is now an 'arc' site. Many times the feds literally protect actual can dump garbage, but will tear down historical cabins. It's a shame. It is stilll interesting what artifacts one can find in the wood, but more often than not it's just garbage. However, even garbage can help paint a picture of what was going on in that area 50-100 years ago so it's still helpful for historical records. It's even more sad that intact cabins and things in the middle of nowhere are recorded but kept 'secret' for obvious reasons of people steeling and destroying. But it's pretty sad those sites essentially just rot away.
The railroad are big bullies. Out here, they literally force their hand against the feds and prevent even firefighters from doing their job due to locked gates at times.