Tom and Julie, love your work. I had the claims at Silurian hill mines before the government took it from me. To old and feeble now, but enjoy what you do. David Bowden
Hello Tom hello Julie Your Video is very good It Shows the mine but the surroundings too All the great views and the little details along the way I like it very much Greetings from Germany Stay safe Best wishes Yours Frank Galetzka
I would enjoy exploring around area of these mines but I will leave the tunnels and shafts to the two of you. ... Your videos are close enough for me... Thanks Tom & Julie do stay safe my friends.
Thanks, Max. Exploring underground is not for everyone and I can certainly understand why. We try and only take the risks we think are worth it for our entertainment value. The area around this mine is fun to hike and rugged, too.
Wow !...i can tell you two are becoming pro's at this mine exploring business! I remember the Cabins from before...Chutes N Ladders!...LOL...excellent as always!..Thanks Tom n Julie
Good memory you have there, Dave. Yes, we were here last year and wanted to check it out again. There always seems to be a ladder in these mines begging you to climb it. I'm not sure about the pro status but we have a few explorations under our belt. More to come. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for bringing us along. It looks like Julie is getting more adventurous in exploring the mines since she takes the lead at times. It is interesting to see this part of history.
You're welcome and thanks for coming along, P-daz. Julie is taking the lead whenever she wants to and I like it because it's nice to have someone to look at for perspective on the video.
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Wait a minute! You are lucky enough to find yourself a beautiful woman who also likes going mine exploring and let you get away with accidentally calling her Judy? And not only was she not mad but she laughed? Does she have a sister😉 jk, cool videos! I'm now subscribed and looking forward to watching all these videos and hopefully more to come. Thx for sharing!
Haha Thanks for the funny comment. Actually she has a twin sister although you wouldn't know it by looking at them. I'm happy you're enjoying the mine exploring videos and I have several more taken recently to edit and upload.
Thanks, John. It can be a little nerve wracking in person as well but I guess that's part of what makes it fun. We have been out of touch for the last month plus for the most part so apologies for not keeping up with your channel activity. Take care.
I'm definitely subscribed to your channel.Your videos are very interesting and educational. Although i'd never do it myself, i respect the risks you take and adventurous mindset you have to explore that which was once vital to peoples livelihoods and are now left forgotten and eroding away, lives were lost and made in the depths of these mines. I always wonder how did the prospectors find or stumble upon this location out in the middle of nowhere ?? Thanks for taking us along, looking forward to the next adventure!!
Thanks for the nice comment, MoeGhul. The miners of the old days were really something special. They have to be some of the toughest and hardest working people ever. I have no idea how they knew where to look for a particular mineral altjough I'm guessing they had a common sense approach or method to it. Thanks for subscribing I'm happy to have you.
It's a great area for exploring, Jim. Check for portals in the wash below the camp and the vertical shaft area. The old trails are fun to follow, too, if you like hiking. Thanks for watching!
Wow what a great place we don't have animals like lizards and such in the UK but there awesome sizes! I just love the old mines and the desolation of the desert land. We have very old mines in the UK usually slate tin copper silver and coal of course. Great video thanks for showing us.
Glad that you are enjoying the mine videos. The desert is pretty cool, with a lot more life than you might think at the first look. Lizards, snakes, coyotes and rabbits are very common.
It's still 8-31-2022, now 2:12pm. I cooked and ate lunch watching this one. Perhaps the stopes and the one big mine had all the attention around there? So, it might be, there's something, something still undug? Could they have done open mining with water hoses they supplied? Maybe they had a reservoir? The slope across from the last tram trail seemed less natural? @44:00 and areas below looked heavily surface disturbed. Tons of erosion, so probably wrong? Where did they get the ore to dump down the chute, then haul to that tram station? 😏Questions, 😏questions, I know.
I never really figured out that whole tram operation. I really expected there to be some significant workings up high on one of those trails. If I remember correctly there were some smallish open cuts up there. I wish I knew more answers to your questions. This is another really fun place to hike into. Thanks for watching and commenting, Rick! 👍
This is an amazing video of great interest to me, my family tried to access the Ashford Mine via hiking from the Ashford Mill in the 1970's which of course failed. Later access to modern topo maps and google Earth showed the true location. In 2007 I made the trip from Reno, parked my truck at the mouth of Ashford Canyon, and hiked the difficult 2 miles up and over steep gravel and dry waterfalls. I found the mine camp and main shaft, but what astounded me was his exploration of a crosscut adit from below the main shaft; I totally missed that. That would have provided me exploration of the main shaft and lower levels. Damn it!
There are several portals that lead to different workings, one of which hooks up with the main shaft. There is also at least one lower level than the lowest one we were on.This video was made during our third trip to the mine, so it takes some time to learn the area. The old miner's trails are fun to follow, too. Thanks for watching!
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Great explore hello from Australia would be interesting to take rope and gear to get past that ratty ladder and see how many more levels are down there.
Hello Sil in Australia. Glad that you enjoyed the explore of this beautiful and rugged area. Yes, it would be fun to go further down the shaft. Thanks for the comment!
Not sure how I missed this particular video, Tom. That ladder at 13:28 had interesting rungs. They weren't the notched type which is so common nor were they nailed onto the uprights. How exactly were they attached? Creepy seeing that large bone fragment right above that sealed-off shaft. I wonder how much deeper it went below those large plywood sheets? Creepy also seeing cat prints. Mountain lion tracks? I think I remember reading that main vertical shaft is 300 feet deep, but don't quote me on that. Regarding Charles Brown, I've heard that sometimes the highway between Shoshone and Pahrump (?) is sometimes referred to as the "Charlie Brown Highway." Always creepy seeing a rope like you show at 24:23. Why is it still there? Didn't the person who used it last retrieve when he or she left the mine? Makes you wonder if they fell down into that void that you briefly show right below the end of the rope. That void, by the way, looked like it kept going down in the opposite direction on an angle. 30:51 JUDY!! LOL I just watched my video from January 2011 of this mine. We did find a few more adits than what I could remember. I think I told you we only found one. Still didn't get as much underground time there as you guys did. Nice video, Tom and Julie!
Thanks, Frank! It is a fun mine to explore and there is more that we didn't see. I also enjoy the hike up there and it's fun to follow the many miner trails that go to various prospects in the hills. Sometime I would like to go further down the main shaft. The ladders are a little rough below where we stopped from people throwing things down the shaft. A rope to go lower would be a good idea.
I want to add a little more to my reply, Frank. The late night commenting catches me a little sleepy sometimes. I thought you had seen this video before. At about the 19 minute mark you can see the ladder rung construction. It is similar to the Desert Lode Star type. From where I was down the main shaft I could see another drift level below me and then down into the blackness. I couldn't see the bottom. Charles Brown was a prominent figure in Death Valley. He was sheriff of Greeneater, a short lived boomtown built up around a copper strike in Death Valley. If I remember correctly it was mostly a con, like many mining operations back then, and the town fizzled out along with the copper mines. Charles was involved in other mining operations and eventually went into politics. He also married the daughter of Dad Fairbanks. Lots of interesting history surrounding these characters. Susan, who basically owns the town of Shoshone, is his grand daughter, or great grand daughter. I'm guessing the rope was left by an explorer who didn't bother to retrieve it after they used it. That would have required free climbing down the slope after getting the rope. Always harder than climbing up, as you know. The bones and tracks are pretty standard mine finds.
Hi Willaim. We see a few snakes on warm fall days. We are mostly in the desert during the winter months when the snakes are laying low because of the cooler temperatures, so we don't see large numbers of them. We have never been bitten but have had some close calls. Thanks for the comment!👌😊
I am going to call you Snoop Tom from now on, cuz you sure can snoop out an adit. I been there, but i didn't even see that, however, as you know, i rather like the cabins to explore, seen so many mines in my days on this earth.
maybe someday you will see and record a ring tailed mine cat for us as i have seen two on other youtube channels.love your vid's keep it up and be safe.
Hi Glenn. I think some of those open cuts probably produced more ore than you might think. We couldn't find much more up there than what you see in the video. Thanks for watching!👍😁
We have time since we are retired and we also live fairly inexpensively. I hope you get the chance to check this area out. Thanks for the comment, Gregory.
Good advice. We are always out in the winter months when the snakes are mostly laying low. She usually does wear a boot except if we have a long hike. We have only had about a half dozen snake encounters in eight years of desert exploring that we've done. Thanks for your input on this important subject, Tom!👍
I won't be back for a while I'm in Scotland but you can see it with binoculars from the parking area at the far end of the racetrack directly across the playa.
Judy???,Tom, I truly hope Julie is your first wife and that was just a slip of the tongue, I have been married three times, this one for very nearly 26 years, but I do have a sister named Judi, so I could get away with it,,,,,I think.
Hey Eric, glad that you liked the guitar sound. Yes, that me rocking out by myself. I played in bar bands from 1977 to 1997 in the Minneapolis area. Mostly blues bands. I have a Pro Tools recording setup that I used in the past. I don't really have it setup anymore. All the music on my videos is made by me unless it's a live band. Thanks for the compliment, it means a lot coming from you!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring You sound good my friend! I figured you had experience with recording gear and playing. I’ve got a presonus board and it’s recording softwares setup in my basement. I have some older technology ADAT recorders, multi-track cassette recorders and I also used to play around with that Reaper software. Haven’t recorded anything in at least 5 years. On my original stuff I do all my own tracks too. Drums, bass, guitars, keys, back up vocals and lead vocals. Really missing rockin out! Looking forward to hearing some more of your songs on here! 👍
@@Edgeofeof some of the digital recording technology now is a little complicated. I kind of miss the old days of analog recording with a couple mics and a reel to reel with a live band. The mistakes and more natural sound are more appealing to me than some of the stuff I hear now.
Tom and Julie, love your work. I had the claims at Silurian hill mines before the government took it from me. To old and feeble now, but enjoy what you do. David Bowden
Hi David, I bet you have some good stories to tell. Glad that you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the nice comment!
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Hi Charles. Thanks for the nice comment!👍😁
That's really cool!!
Thanks, Jason!
Hello Tom hello Julie
Your Video is very good
It Shows the mine but the surroundings too
All the great views and the little details along the way
I like it very much
Greetings from Germany
Stay safe
Best wishes
Yours Frank Galetzka
Thanks for the nice comment, Frank. We're glad you enjoyed the video. I like to show the surrounding area of the mines if I can.
Thank you for leaving the words of long enough for a person to read through them so I don't have to freeze it
You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback, Mike! 👌😁
Thanks again for sharing life with enthusiasm and passion for the mines love those big blue skies
Thanks!
I would enjoy exploring around area of these mines but I will leave the tunnels and shafts to the two of you. ... Your videos are close enough for me... Thanks Tom & Julie do stay safe my friends.
Thanks, Max. Exploring underground is not for everyone and I can certainly understand why. We try and only take the risks we think are worth it for our entertainment value. The area around this mine is fun to hike and rugged, too.
ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO WITH ENJOYABLE NARRATIVE! THANK YOU AND LOOKING FORWARD TO UPCOMING MINE EXPLORATION.
Thanks, Brian. This is a fun hike as well as mine explore. Glad that you enjoyed it.
Wow !...i can tell you two are becoming pro's at this mine exploring business!
I remember the Cabins from before...Chutes N Ladders!...LOL...excellent as always!..Thanks Tom n Julie
Good memory you have there, Dave. Yes, we were here last year and wanted to check it out again. There always seems to be a ladder in these mines begging you to climb it. I'm not sure about the pro status but we have a few explorations under our belt. More to come. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for bringing us along. It looks like Julie is getting more adventurous in exploring the mines since she takes the lead at times. It is interesting to see this part of history.
You're welcome and thanks for coming along, P-daz. Julie is taking the lead whenever she wants to and I like it because it's nice to have someone to look at for perspective on the video.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring It did allow us to see how high the roof of the mine was when she was in front of you.
Exactly.
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Thank you for such a nice comment, Metin. We appreciate it.
that is so beautiful mineing camp i would love to live there it look so peaceful and quiet
It is a great spot. Very peaceful.
Wait a minute! You are lucky enough to find yourself a beautiful woman who also likes going mine exploring and let you get away with accidentally calling her Judy? And not only was she not mad but she laughed? Does she have a sister😉 jk, cool videos! I'm now subscribed and looking forward to watching all these videos and hopefully more to come. Thx for sharing!
Haha Thanks for the funny comment. Actually she has a twin sister although you wouldn't know it by looking at them. I'm happy you're enjoying the mine exploring videos and I have several more taken recently to edit and upload.
That was Great guys, nail biting experience👍
Thanks, John. It can be a little nerve wracking in person as well but I guess that's part of what makes it fun. We have been out of touch for the last month plus for the most part so apologies for not keeping up with your channel activity. Take care.
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Very true. Happy Easter to you as well.
that looks so fun you two.
It's a blast. Thanks for the comment, James!👍😁
I'm definitely subscribed to your channel.Your videos are very interesting and educational.
Although i'd never do it myself, i respect the risks you take and adventurous mindset you have to explore that which was once vital to peoples livelihoods and are now left forgotten and eroding away, lives were lost and made in the depths of these mines. I always wonder how did the prospectors find or stumble upon this location out in the middle of nowhere ?? Thanks for taking us along, looking forward to the next adventure!!
Thanks for the nice comment, MoeGhul. The miners of the old days were really something special. They have to be some of the toughest and hardest working people ever. I have no idea how they knew where to look for a particular mineral altjough I'm guessing they had a common sense approach or method to it. Thanks for subscribing I'm happy to have you.
Enjoying your channel. I've been to the old camp, but have never explored the mines. I think it's time to go back!
It's a great area for exploring, Jim. Check for portals in the wash below the camp and the vertical shaft area. The old trails are fun to follow, too, if you like hiking. Thanks for watching!
I used to live and work in downtown Furnace Creek in the 80s. your video brings back memories. Too bad the park is closed up right now
Hopefully things will get back to normal soon. Thanks for watching!
Such a cool area to explore!
Yes, it certainly is a fun area. Hope you get the chance to check it out. Thanks for the comment.
Awesome Adventure my friends💪🤠👍
Thanks, Yankee! Good to hear from you my friend and hope all is well for you.
That was a nice trail lots of beautiful place to see
This is a really fun place to explore. All kinds of old miner's trails and tunnels all over. Thanks, Ronnie!
Good one! I've hiked up there but not as far as you!
Thanks for watching rude dog. I'm not surprised that you have been here.
Wow what a great place we don't have animals like lizards and such in the UK but there awesome sizes! I just love the old mines and the desolation of the desert land. We have very old mines in the UK usually slate tin copper silver and coal of course. Great video thanks for showing us.
Glad that you are enjoying the mine videos. The desert is pretty cool, with a lot more life than you might think at the first look. Lizards, snakes, coyotes and rabbits are very common.
Really enjoy watching you two explore these old mines, it's very relaxing 😎 Another great video thanks guys!
Glad that you enjoyed this one, Daniel. It is a fun hike and area in general. Thanks for watching some of our older videos.
It's still 8-31-2022, now 2:12pm. I cooked and ate lunch watching this one. Perhaps the stopes and the one big mine had all the attention around there? So, it might be, there's something, something still undug?
Could they have done open mining with water hoses they supplied? Maybe they had a reservoir? The slope across from the last tram trail seemed less natural? @44:00 and areas below looked heavily surface disturbed. Tons of erosion, so probably wrong?
Where did they get the ore to dump down the chute, then haul to that tram station?
😏Questions, 😏questions, I know.
I never really figured out that whole tram operation. I really expected there to be some significant workings up high on one of those trails. If I remember correctly there were some smallish open cuts up there. I wish I knew more answers to your questions. This is another really fun place to hike into. Thanks for watching and commenting, Rick! 👍
This is an amazing video of great interest to me, my family tried to access the Ashford Mine via hiking from the Ashford Mill in the 1970's which of course failed. Later access to modern topo maps and google Earth showed the true location. In 2007 I made the trip from Reno, parked my truck at the mouth of Ashford Canyon, and hiked the difficult 2 miles up and over steep gravel and dry waterfalls. I found the mine camp and main shaft, but what astounded me was his exploration of a crosscut adit from below the main shaft; I totally missed that. That would have provided me exploration of the main shaft and lower levels. Damn it!
There are several portals that lead to different workings, one of which hooks up with the main shaft. There is also at least one lower level than the lowest one we were on.This video was made during our third trip to the mine, so it takes some time to learn the area. The old miner's trails are fun to follow, too. Thanks for watching!
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I like your intro music!
Just me jamming on electric guitar, Jason. Glad that you like it.
Great explore hello from Australia would be interesting to take rope and gear to get past that ratty ladder and see how many more levels are down there.
Hello Sil in Australia. Glad that you enjoyed the explore of this beautiful and rugged area. Yes, it would be fun to go further down the shaft. Thanks for the comment!
Not sure how I missed this particular video, Tom. That ladder at 13:28 had interesting rungs. They weren't the notched type which is so common nor were they nailed onto the uprights. How exactly were they attached? Creepy seeing that large bone fragment right above that sealed-off shaft. I wonder how much deeper it went below those large plywood sheets? Creepy also seeing cat prints. Mountain lion tracks? I think I remember reading that main vertical shaft is 300 feet deep, but don't quote me on that. Regarding Charles Brown, I've heard that sometimes the highway between Shoshone and Pahrump (?) is sometimes referred to as the "Charlie Brown Highway." Always creepy seeing a rope like you show at 24:23. Why is it still there? Didn't the person who used it last retrieve when he or she left the mine? Makes you wonder if they fell down into that void that you briefly show right below the end of the rope. That void, by the way, looked like it kept going down in the opposite direction on an angle. 30:51 JUDY!! LOL I just watched my video from January 2011 of this mine. We did find a few more adits than what I could remember. I think I told you we only found one. Still didn't get as much underground time there as you guys did. Nice video, Tom and Julie!
Thanks, Frank! It is a fun mine to explore and there is more that we didn't see. I also enjoy the hike up there and it's fun to follow the many miner trails that go to various prospects in the hills. Sometime I would like to go further down the main shaft. The ladders are a little rough below where we stopped from people throwing things down the shaft. A rope to go lower would be a good idea.
I want to add a little more to my reply, Frank. The late night commenting catches me a little sleepy sometimes. I thought you had seen this video before. At about the 19 minute mark you can see the ladder rung construction. It is similar to the Desert Lode Star type. From where I was down the main shaft I could see another drift level below me and then down into the blackness. I couldn't see the bottom. Charles Brown was a prominent figure in Death Valley. He was sheriff of Greeneater, a short lived boomtown built up around a copper strike in Death Valley. If I remember correctly it was mostly a con, like many mining operations back then, and the town fizzled out along with the copper mines. Charles was involved in other mining operations and eventually went into politics. He also married the daughter of Dad Fairbanks. Lots of interesting history surrounding these characters. Susan, who basically owns the town of Shoshone, is his grand daughter, or great grand daughter. I'm guessing the rope was left by an explorer who didn't bother to retrieve it after they used it. That would have required free climbing down the slope after getting the rope. Always harder than climbing up, as you know. The bones and tracks are pretty standard mine finds.
So ever have issues with rattlesnakes? Great Videos.
Hi Willaim. We see a few snakes on warm fall days. We are mostly in the desert during the winter months when the snakes are laying low because of the cooler temperatures, so we don't see large numbers of them. We have never been bitten but have had some close calls. Thanks for the comment!👌😊
I am going to call you Snoop Tom from now on, cuz you sure can snoop out an adit. I been there, but i didn't even see that, however, as you know, i rather like the cabins to explore, seen so many mines in my days on this earth.
I guess you're right about finding adits. It took me until the second trip here to find the underground workings. Thanks, Ken!
maybe someday you will see and record a ring tailed mine cat for us as i have seen two on other youtube channels.love your vid's keep it up and be safe.
That would be cool!
There's no way that they would put up that tram for those little diggings!!! There must be a pretty big mine up there somewhere???
Hi Glenn. I think some of those open cuts probably produced more ore than you might think. We couldn't find much more up there than what you see in the video. Thanks for watching!👍😁
Very awsome wish I had time and money to do the things you do a Don't live far from there
We have time since we are retired and we also live fairly inexpensively. I hope you get the chance to check this area out. Thanks for the comment, Gregory.
Julie you should be wearing a boot style shoe being that you lead and would be the first to come across rattlers ect
Good advice. We are always out in the winter months when the snakes are mostly laying low. She usually does wear a boot except if we have a long hike. We have only had about a half dozen snake encounters in eight years of desert exploring that we've done. Thanks for your input on this important subject, Tom!👍
Have you seen the mine on the side of the hill at the racetrack and are there any videos of it
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There might be a quick look at the mine you are asking about here. Don't forget to sub to Ken if you would.
Not sure that's the one it directly overlooks the race track at the edge of the playa. Thanks
Looking at a map the closest named mines to the Racetrack are Lippincott, Sally Ann and Lost Burro. There are many prospects in the area.
I won't be back for a while I'm in Scotland but you can see it with binoculars from the parking area at the far end of the racetrack directly across the playa.
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Judy???,Tom, I truly hope Julie is your first wife and that was just a slip of the tongue, I have been married three times, this one for very nearly 26 years, but I do have a sister named Judi, so I could get away with it,,,,,I think.
Haha, yeah you could get away that one. Julie is my first wife so I can't get away with a wrong name.
Nice guitar sound! Is that all you doing both of the guitar tracks?
Hey Eric, glad that you liked the guitar sound. Yes, that me rocking out by myself. I played in bar bands from 1977 to 1997 in the Minneapolis area. Mostly blues bands. I have a Pro Tools recording setup that I used in the past. I don't really have it setup anymore. All the music on my videos is made by me unless it's a live band. Thanks for the compliment, it means a lot coming from you!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring You sound good my friend! I figured you had experience with recording gear and playing. I’ve got a presonus board and it’s recording softwares setup in my basement. I have some older technology ADAT recorders, multi-track cassette recorders and I also used to play around with that Reaper software. Haven’t recorded anything in at least 5 years. On my original stuff I do all my own tracks too. Drums, bass, guitars, keys, back up vocals and lead vocals. Really missing rockin out! Looking forward to hearing some more of your songs on here! 👍
@@Edgeofeof some of the digital recording technology now is a little complicated. I kind of miss the old days of analog recording with a couple mics and a reel to reel with a live band. The mistakes and more natural sound are more appealing to me than some of the stuff I hear now.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring I like old school stuff the best too. Copying and pasting is cheating! Lol!
@@Edgeofeof exactly.