More mine hunting in Monte Cristo
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2017
- We returned for another hunt, this time all the way to the glacier basin. The hike was extreme, it's a lot of ground to cover in one day. One correction to be made, caught by a viewer, This was actually New Discovery Mine, not Philo mine.
Hiked there as a kid and remember when the hydro generator was still operating. People still lived there at that point. Was really cool. I need to make a returning trip some day
The mine you're calling the Philo is the New Discovery mine. Philo is down toward the the end of the gulch to the left as you look into the N D. Philo has a water fall cascading over it for a good part of the summer. Kind of a neat mine to explore.
The difficult location of the galena was one of the reasons it didn't pencil out. The mining infrastructure was destroyed each winter and had to be rebuilt. Those were mighty men back in the day.
This is gonna sound crazy, but I actually just completed a map of the Mystery tunnel based on other videos, and the whirlpool you see at 11:55m is water actually draining into the Mystery tunnels only 50-100 feet below that exact point. And the cable you were following runs all the way back to town, clear over the ridge🤣
I was wondering where that was going, I thought it might have been the towns stack pipe, inlet, but that makes more sense. That's awesome man, and I'm glad you found this video. Soon enough I will be spending more time out, and either be uploading to my personal channel here, or a new channel depending on the way this year goes.
Keep exploring man, thanks for watching.
Go find out more about GOSPEL HUMP, McCandless families. Clearwater end and lake are
OPEN.
Monte Cristo has long been one of my favorite PNW ghost towns, and I've always wanted to find the mines. Been up many times, but never with the right company to truly go exploring. How close were the wildfires?
Not sure, but the smoke was very thick up there. Thanks for watching. There will be more coming this year of some other area's and I may return once more to Monte. I'm pretty busy so I apologize for not having more content. My channels kinda a little bit of everything lol.
I just hope I have the chance to get back up there before the place is destroyed by fire (as with anything else around here). The past few years have been terrible fire years up in the area. Not at all like it was, even 10 years ago. Good luck with your channel, and happy adventuring, from one explorer to another.
at 17 min mark that is the New Discovery mine, wickedly dangerous place
Reply to A930
Thanks for the correction. Not sure how I mixed those up, but thanks.
www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/philo-mine.html The real pain about western Washington mine explorations, especially now, They can be a real pain to find or distinguish.
Another thing I noticed was when Mines Of The West did an exploration they made it up to Justice, and called it something else. Heck even their description said it was a fake name, they called it Mountain view.
I wish I would have gone in, honestly though I'm not a fan of trekking through water. I've been in several mines in the desert states long before I used to film, and I am thinking about doing a desert exploration, there's usually a lot more to see out there. I know that Frank, (both of them, Exploring BC, Exploring abandoned mines) would have gone in regardless of boots, but I'm not that dedicated. It's not really the danger that bugs me, its the hike back down in soggy mine water clothes haha.
Anyway thanks for the watch, I may head back up there again this year, or I may try some other places. I was thinking about checking out nighthawk, it looked complete, more so than here anyway. But that's one hell of a drive!
reply to Erin Slee
The snow loads are the worst for the structures, it's so sad to see that most of the buildings are just piles of sawdust and wood chips. The last ten years have done a lot of damage to many structures throughout the country it seems.
We never saw any flames up there, or burned tree's. From what I understand the fires were more in BC.
I just wish that the areas that are still together, places like in Colorado, Idaho, and Montana, would have people put a little effort in to preserving these relics. Hell if I could I'd do it, I'd even volunteer if I lived near anything like that. Unfortunately I don't though. And the federal government probably wouldn't allow it. "Historic", typically to them just means let it sit and rot. Hard to believe that just 30 years ago these places were like something you'd see in an old wilderness movie, now those times are practically erased.
Why does everyone call waste rock "tailings? Tailings are the fine waste after ore has been milled and the gold (or whatever) has been taken out.
Noted, thanks for the correction.