MYSTERY Tunnel and ABANDONED Cabins
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- What is the story behind this mystery tunnel and abandoned cabins?
Dubbed as the Human Mole we explore his famous tunnel and the 100 year old cabin he left behind.People travel from all over the world to visit Burro Schmidt's Tunnel.
The Burro Schmidt Tunnel is a historic and fascinating landmark located in the El Paso Mountains of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.
The tunnel was created by William "Burro" Schmidt, a miner who worked alone for over 38 years to complete it. He started the project in 1900 and finished in 1938.
Schmidt's original goal was to dig a tunnel through the mountains to transport his ore to the smelters more easily, avoiding a treacherous route around the mountain. However, by the time he completed the tunnel, alternative routes and transportation methods had made his tunnel obsolete.
The tunnel is approximately 2,087 feet (636 meters) long and runs straight through the solid rock of Copper Mountain.
Schmidt dug the tunnel by hand using simple tools, such as a pickaxe, a hammer, and dynamite. He lived in a small cabin near the tunnel site and was known for his perseverance and dedication to his work.
Although the tunnel did not serve its intended commercial purpose, it became a symbol of determination and hard work. It is a popular attraction for hikers, history enthusiasts, and those interested in the lore of the Old West.
The Burro Schmidt Tunnel is now part of the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) managed lands and is open to the public. Visitors can explore the tunnel and the surrounding area, which includes remnants of Schmidt's cabin and other mining artefacts.
The tunnel has a certain mystique and has been the subject of various legends and stories, including tales of Schmidt's eccentricity and the hardships he endured during the construction.
Reaching the tunnel requires a drive on rough desert roads, and visitors should be prepared for desert conditions. It is advisable to check current access conditions and bring plenty of water and supplies.
The Burro Schmidt Tunnel is a testament to human perseverance and ingenuity, making it a fascinating destination for those exploring the rich mining history of Southern California.
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Thank you for visiting his grave, nice touch. RIP Bill
What an awesome story. The human spirit is amazing. All this adversity, and he still kept going. Thank you for celebrating this and showing us..❤✌️
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it
Your absolutely right. Too many people have no respect nowadays. Great video as always
Thank you Gary
You always handle things so respectfully. Sad it is not more common.
Thank you Ken
Once again you 2 informed us while we ate dinner. We must live under a rock - never heard of Burro Schmidt & his tunnel or the Segers. So appreciate the respect you show not only to properties, but also the deceased. Your cemetery visit increased out empathy for them. Excellent video depicting a true "Life Project"! Thanks! Bon Voyage!@
Thank you. So glad you and Virginia enjoyed our explore. There are many more people who have a tale to tell. Hopefully we’ll uncover some of them and share their stories
I’m so glad you went to the cemetery. That was very sweet. 🥲 Excellent video.
I met her there in the late 80’s, bought a soda from her, and rented a red plastic flashlight to see inside the tunnel.
She sounds like an amazing woman. Hard core to live out there alone for 40 years. Shame her son wasn’t able to keep the cabin on.
Glad you enjoyed it Charley. We wrote a blog on it too.
Wow, the can is a three hole-r, how cheery. Steve, you are so right, nothing like beurocrats to mess with your head.
Yep so true Diane
Another Awesome adventure with my pin and beers 🍻 such a awesome place lota work for no gold
So true Raymond
Beautiful & touching post. As you said lots of people have explored the tunnel & talked about Burro Schmidt"s life, but I never heard about the determined little old lady caretaker before. Thank you.
You’re welcome Glenace. Glad you enjoyed it
Intense production, Andrea and Steve. I'd heard of the Burro Schmidt tunnel before but nothing about the later caretaker. What dedication she evidently felt, and her tombstone and gravesite were so unique. I'll need to watch this one again!
It’s an interesting story Deborah. We wrote a blog on it too.
pinintheatlas.com/travel-blogs/burro-schmidts-tunnel/
You guys absolutely outdid yourselves with this one! Beautifully done--the film editing, the music, and the way you told the story...very poignant.
Thank you so very much. Really appreciate your kind words
Great story, and great video. Especially liked the opening sequence and the end sequence.
Thanks Peter
Great video, Steve and Andrea - what an incredible story of dogged determination. Also a sad comment on fallen human nature. Authoriarian bodies, whether unelected or elected, will, sooner or later, perform draconian actions for no other reason than that they can.
Glad you enjoyed it Brian
California. What do you expect? Drive through Oakland or San Francisco? How about Los Angeles? Destruction ßeems to be the norm. Great story, wonderfully done. A real classic by my two best classics.😊
Thank you Richard. Appreciate your support and glad you enjoyed our explore.
Great to see you again, it’s been to long.
We’ve been posting every Tuesday. Haven’t missed a week! Sounds like you have quite a lot to catch up on.
Sad story but a very interesting story to know the truth about all that were there at that time. Thank you for sharing and God Bless you and your family. Stay safe in your adventure travels. 🥰👍👍👍👍👍(🌹🐞🦂🌵)
Thank you Rose. See you on our next adventure.
Sure glad you two are around to share your adventures into history! Good job! Thank you!
You’re welcome Kerry
Great video its amazing he did that all on his own and his cabin amazing with the stuff he had he just used to help keep it warm those papers are amazing and i could read them all day there its a shame these place are destroyed by humans its our history
Totally agree. The 3 letter agency should have left them to continue to look after the place. Can’t understand the mentality of people who decide to destroy things.
Glad you enjoyed the explore
Absolutely. If you don't respect yourself you can't respect others.
Totally agree Mike. Something my Dad would say all the time.
I love how you tied up a story of a man that spit most of his life working Underground and now lives out his eternity Underground . On a second thought since it was all about does animals I'm sure the height was designed for them
You’ve got a point there about the height Wes.
Makes you wonder what was going through his mind when he was tunnelling
Very well done thank you. I think sometimes we do what we do because we can, why not! But that one confounds me. Stay safe ALL!
He was a determined man
He was no quitter that's for sure!
He sure was Gene.
I thought this was a pretty awesome video. His cabin is amazing, I hope it lasts for decades to come...
Thank you! Just love the newspaper and vintage ads all over the walls!
I went thru the tunnel in 1996. This looks totally different. The only thing that looks familiar is the newspaper room. The view at the end of tunnel too.🤔
Did you meet Toni the lady that looked after the place?
Great story!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Joseph
Another great story and video! It's common in the small old houses that they will use curtains as room dividers. Next time ... look around the walls for evidence of curtain rod hangers. It might clear up which room was the bedroom. My great grandmother's house was divided that way. I suspect the Human Mole used a hand drill for his dynamite holes and thus the need for a 4lb. hammer. Working alone he wouldn't have been able to use the longer drills you commonly see in those old mines. I'd think the digging process would have taken longer than the life span of his pack animals. I'm not sure why he dug the tunnel. My guess would of been that he wanted to be a miner, but really wasn't one ... or he just needed to do it in order to be there.
Never thought about the curtains Norm. So very possible. Glad you enjoyed our explore. See you on our next adventure.
Cutlery is great 👍
@@PinInTheAtlas Glad to hear you can eat more than finger foods now! 🙂 Old houses, before the central heating and A/C days, were a lot more open than today's houses are. The people with a bit of money and larger houses would use pocket doors and folding doors to add privacy, but the poorer folk with the smaller houses would use curtains. My great grandmother had both, but shutting the wooden doors required moving furniture and the curtains were used most of the time. Most of these old houses have had walls added since then though. I'm sure Burro Schmidt wouldn't have worried much about that, but it looked like from the grave that Evelyn probably had more visitors!
@@normstephens8354 she had lots of visitors from all over the world. The tunnel and William became famous after his passing
Hello there this tunnel and the reason why it was made all ways gave me why more and more ?? And your adventure brought up more why ?? But i have found out some answers of why is there a T in the tunnel in some comments from else where the reason is he found a Gold vein at the T so he went right and did find Gold then went left but the amount was only covering cost of supplies so then went back to finish his short cut tunnel through the mt .A hiker was at a Walt Burly mine close by and talked to the grand daughter of walt and the rest of the story about the T in this famous mine of the Mole mine .Now back in the day when this short cut tunnel was made ore was put in sacks and put on mules , horse's,and Burro's and way later wagons were used to haul more ore so as you said he kept digging the tunnel but by the time he had it all dug out it was outdated.your adventure has now given more answers to my ?? But it is sad the tunnel and cabins were taken by a Gov agency so we might wonder if this area was taken as a annex into a park or wilderness area .So great explore ❤️ and the adventure .p.s. Guess thats why my nick is (THE LOST DUTCHMAN) later ⛏️🤔
Finding the gold vein is quite possible and makes sense.
He was one determined person!
I don't know since I've never been there, but what I could see from Steven and Andrea's video ... there isn't much in the way of mineralization showing in the tunnel at all. Typical miners would have prospected the mountain above it and then, if something interesting was found, they would dig a haulage tunnel below their find with the goal of intersecting the mineralization and using gravity to drop the ore down and into the carts. it would be interesting to see if there are any prospect pits on the mountain above the tunnel? My guess is that he just wanted to live there and used the mining to validate his claim ... though the adits to the left suggest he was looking for something. The back side of the mountain doesn't look all that mule friendly either. The Clinton administration put a lot of effort into stopping mining on federal land. I think their main focus was coal and everything else was more or less collateral damage. It appears her son could have remained as caretaker after signing an MOU, but he would not accept an unpaid position and they kicked him out as a result.
This was my very first Jeep adventure.
Depending on which way you go. Easy or hard!
That was a good episode, I have heard of that place and person but have never seen a video on it.
Glad you enjoyed it Eric. A very determined man
Thanks. It is a shame he did all of that work for nothing. I am sure he found great satisfaction by completing it weather the road
was finished or not. Thanks for the video! Fine job as usual!
Thank you happy you enjoyed it. We found it to be an interesting piece of history. William seemed to be an interesting fellow.
Another great video. Keep them coming.
Thank you Richard. Yep every Tuesday
100% right on the money Steven, so much disrespect. What an interesting story. If he spent 32 years digging the tunnel was it just in the winter months? Have you been to Cerro Gordo yet, behind Owens Lake and up 8000 ft?
Yes we have Lorna. It in fact our very first video - no mics, just hand holding the iPhone. It is terrible LOL. We wrote a blog about it too.
Great story and well presented, Cheers
@@brianmarywapshott2593 thanks for watching
Well Done, Pin. Thanks for bringing William's story to light. Shame, Shame, Shame, on the BLM. A Living Museum, and they went and just let it rot. What that room looked like, before the first Hooligan went in there and screwed it up for the rest of us, it must of been something ! Wow Steven, that was some good figuring !
Thanks Michael. Would have been great to see the place before it got wrecked
At 10:23, the picture of the man looks like the Movie Actor, Clark Gable. Not for sure if the woman in the background was his wife, Carole Lombard.
I think you’re right Cary.
The photo is of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. It's from a 1936 publicity photo for "Wife vs. Secretary" The photo would have also included Myrna Loy. I tried to link to the original photo, but RUclips didn't like that.
@@normstephens8354 Thanks for the reply and the info. I figured it was Myrna Loy but Siri said that Jean Harlow wore a red wig over her platinum-blonde locks!
@@caryward8251 I think Jean Harlow wore a red wig in her first movie. Myrna Loy was very much a freckled redhead naturally and Jean Harlow had very light brown hair with blonde highlights naturally. Hard to say what they did for a black and white movie ... other than it looks like she took her dyed platinum blonde look down a few notches. I think that movie was released in February of 1936 and Jean Harlow passed away in June of 1937. I don't have near as many photos of Jean in my collection as I do Myrna, but I do have the one the newspaper used in that cabin.
Americana and Western characters.
What an interesting life style. But he wanted the simple life. The lowlife Don t care about our past history.
That’s very true Tina
@@PinInTheAtlas yes indeed. Keep them coming
That's your tax dollars at work.
So true
This was so fascinating, but also made me feel melancholy, simultaneously. *I guess it's easier to remember that they were doing something they were passionate about... *Great coverage of the history, and backstories connected to these sites. Thank you so much, Andrea and Steven,
for including the cemetery, as well. 🏚🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️🩹
Thanks Rhonda. Appreciate your support and comments. Both William and Toni were interesting characters
Great video guys. And always appreciate your research that you do. Well Done! Oh yeah, BLM- Big - Load- Manure.. 🤠🧑🦰🌲🌲 🎼
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