Thanks for the solar panel discount. It has been hotter than blue blazes here in central TX and there have been warnings of possible power outages, but this unit will relieve the worry of losing our freezer's contents if the worst happens. What beautiful views from Granite, but what a road to get there!
Thank for the tour of Granite...hard work and times of that era...sad to see the state has done little to maintain access and signage...Great video...thx
Saved this video to watch early this morning, 1st thing. Such fun exploring! Thank you for braving the road up to the mine. So many structures built & used for a relatively short period. Thanks. & as always, be well.
Thanks again Rick and Linda awesome video I had to stop half way through and order that panel great deal and I it's backed by you both then must be a great panel
Thank you. I loved seeing how much rock was used in constructing foundations and retaining walls - good way to make use of the rock they had to move while mining. Some of the wood on those old buildings was cut so straight - makes the stuff at Home Depot look poor by comparison. I'm so glad your camera makes the signs clear enough for me to read them - even on pause - which I cannot say about my own camera. Good job all around!
We just stumbled across this place twelve years ago on a road trip. It was spring and there was still snow on the road. Took a risky chance driving up there in a rented RAV4. What a great time. I went into an old cabin near the bottom and found a 1951 newspaper still lying on a table. I use one of my photos for a screen saver. When we were there both the little cabins were standing but the one was in pretty rough shape and I see it has collapsed now.
Thank you for documenting these old towns as I am mourning the loss of Lahaina right now! E pule kākou! Prayers are needed for those lost and for the ‘aina.
Yes, we've finally located old family friends, they were in Kahului. Their homes and everything in them burned down. My classmate and husband are still missing. Lahaina has always been my second home as my older sisters used to live there. Rick and I met there. This is devastating, a big hole in our hearts.
@@gonagain I’m relieved that my friends texted safe, though they are struggling with no power communication water and food. I pray your friends will get through also. My heart is broken and so heavy!
I’m so sorry about the huge loss of life and property in Lahaina. My heart goes out all Hawaiians as they mourn their communal losses. So sorry Linda and Rick!
Oh my gosh, I was in Phillipsburg yesterday! I've heard of the town of Granite but forgot about it. I definitely would have visited if I remembered it 😂
We had a wood stove and we used to get up in the morning and make pictures with our hands on the frost on the inside the windows and walls, then of course we would run downstairs where mom had been up and started the fire. Beautiful simple childhood. Many memories and we were dirt poor but it didn't matter. :)
Great video tour, guys. And great tip on the Itehil panel. Just ordered two and your coupon code worked great. AND free shipping! Left them a generous tip, too. Thanks again.
:) WOW! and THANKS MUCH for sharing! I DID use your link to order my 1st Solar Panel at SUCH A DEAL! WELL DONE and ALL the BEST to you , Linda and Family! Cheers! :)
Rick, I bet You & Linda are HAPPY that you upgraded the trailer leaf springs going up that road ! When i was a kid we went to my Grandmother's home town of "Rifle" in Colorado. it too was a "GHOST TOWN" although it was ALL preserved and compleet. Looks like nobody cared about "Granite"!
Love your adventures. Thanks for the commercial break. I just purchased a 100w suitcase solar panel and battery bank for 349.20 using your code. That's a very nice savings. 👍
My house was built in 1952 and when we bought it, about 12 years ago, the only insulation in the attic was a few inches of sawdust. After all these years no one put in decent insulation!!! We sure did.
Wow, I went there in 2001! Almost forgot about that trip, but that road up there is one you don’t forget easily. Roads were much better condition back then tho. Amazing place and the views of the valley below were spectacular. And then down to Philipsburg for lunch - one of my favorite areas. Thanks for helping me reminisce.
Rough Roads can have the best rewards. Looks like a very interesting place. No pie up there though eh? Fortunately for me, I have a boatload of blackberries to remove. My favorite method of disposal is in pie and cobbler though jam is very good for ice cream and pancakes. My broski is at the Noxon Reservoir for the next 10 days. Beautiful country around there too. Take care guys...
Not even a cow pie could be found! We're finishing up a small remodel in our house, taking down a wall that separated the kitchen from the living room. Fun times. Loved the blackberry cobblers when we lived in WA.
Thank you, we've found our close family friends who were reported missing. Thankfully, they are all safe and sound; 3 homes and everything in them are all just ashes now but they are fine. Still missing my classmate and husband.
The unique purple color of these bottles is a result of the reaction between glass, manganese, and ultraviolet (UV) light. When exposed to sunlight, the glass turns a light pink or lavender to moderately dark amethyst or purple, depending on the amount of manganese and UV exposure.
High mountain roads are always interesting. I’ve been on a few where I had to saw thru and move down trees across the road. A little age brings wisdom and better planning! I’m sure you learn a lot along the way. Happy travels! 😎
Looking forward to seeing Philipsburg. My folks lived there in the mid 1960's, I came home on leave from Germany at Christmas time in 1966 for 30 days. It was 30 below zero and my Dad and I went fishing in Rock Creek for white fish.........brrrrr. I saw the first super bowl on Jan. 15, 1967 and left right after it for Germany.
There are many photos and videos of when more of the buildings were still standing and get a better idea of what it looked like. I remember that a woman was still living in one of the cabins up there years ago, and she died up there.
Great content. Who needs Hollywood's writers when we have quality videos like yours!! Wondering if you could do a video on interesting artifacts that you have discovered throughout your travels?
Great video, and one of your best explores. Just north of us there was a big silver strike in Cobalt Ontario. They had a vein of pure silver running through main street a foot wide. The town survived and the mines have rotted away such as this. Lots of history if you look for it.
We knew it was particularly cold night when a canned veggie would freeze and bust open the mason jar they were canned I . They were always stored under my bed.
Thank you very much for taking us through all this I remember reading about this place years ago and always thought it would be a fantastic place to go visit
That road to the Ghost Town seemed very sketchy especially pulling a trailer. That’s quite the deal on the Itehil solar panel. I’ve got multiple 100 watt panels already or I’d definitely get one
Interesting history. It's hard to imagine the kind of work that went into constructing some of those buildings! And thanks for the top and code on the solar panel! It's like the one I got with my Rockpal. I have been wanting to get a second 100w folding solar panel, so I wasted no time ordering it at $100! That was the hold up, I couldn't see paying over $200 for one. Thanks!
I certainly have to catch up on your videos....been a good minute since I've watched any....you know...LIFE😮😮. I love your adventures and hope to be going full time on the road SOON ❤❤(Anne Marie using hubby's account)
I remember watching videos a few years ago of a guy who lived near there, but he used his 4WD side-by-side to go up those roads. I almost purchased a cabin in that area, but after the wife left, I gave up on the idea. My kids would have loved it. Have fun, Mike
You talked about how hard it was in the winter, living in a house with no insulation. It reminded me of a paperback I read, I believe it is: Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866. It's considered one of the most accurate books on pioneer life. In it, she describes how they moved to Denver and her husband worked at the mine. If I remember the book right, she said that Denver only had 3000 people at the time, and their first place was in a cave with a wooden front and a blanket to keep out the winter wind. I'm thinking a blanket over the doorway in the mountains in the dead of winter is a little on the roughing-it side.
Folks worked harder and were hardier than we are now. Some of the first settlers in Montana lived in dugouts and caves first, then started building their cabins.
@@gonagain We? I'm not tough? It's not like I'd fight a grizzly with a pocket knife or anything, but...Ha! just kidding. Which reminds me, I heard of a bear that must be tougher than a grizzly bear. A Grissle Bear. I write for an Amish Outdoor mag (I'm not Amish) and I have been holding contests. This was for 15 yr olds and under. One of the qualifications was to name a favorite animal for which one 9yr old put down the Grissle Bear.
One of the best and most interesting ghost town videos. Interesting, no extra verbiage, just sound reporting. The great days of America! And they did all that work and created all that wealth with no social security, and no "woke" ideology!
Nice video, Thank you for inviting us to go on your beautiful journey, a dangerous one at that. LOL This is my third time living here in Montana through The years since 1964. By the way I'm 63 almost 64. It's a beautiful state. you pay $9 and roads are dangerous. Unkept Museum, Is very shameful. Take care, thank you for the video again.
Wow Rick and Linda, I for 1,truly appreciate the knowledge of this type of Historical knowledge that you bring to us.I would like to know, where is this Ghost Town located?You may have said, however, I apologize, I totally missed it.
I love seeing the old places. I just wish that the buildings were still standing. I can’t imagine working with a steam shovel. They had to have been hard to operate. I have worked on a 30-B dragline before but that would be easy in comparison to operating the steam shovel.
My kind of video, and my kind of road! Thanks for mentioning that ghost towns were not destroyed, but they were recycled. Now I get to use my imagination! I’m surprised at the “permit” move by Montana. I had a good lunch in a Philipsburg cafe about ten years ago. Quiet little town. Do I need to buy a permit to park on the street now?
Montana's State Parks require a permit or a fee to use. The town of Phillipsburg itself isn't part of the Granite ghost town. You can still get a great lunch there, and don't forget the bakery or the candy store!
Years ago, my brother was the Sherriff of Granite County. My ex and I went there and took our CJ jeep up to the town and mines. It looks a lot the same except it is more overgrown than it was when we were there. At that time, you could drive everywhere up there and we did. Also, there wa sno signs at all and it was not a museum. It was just a ghost town. One of the buildings we found was an assay office and it had core samples in it from the mine. It was very interesting. And no there was no private areas either. Although we did not come across the shaft at that time. And that carved are you called a root cellar, could have been an Icehouse., They would carve ice out of ponds and put it in a tunnel in the ground or in a building with thick walls. The walls would be filled with sawdust for insulation, and they would put in the ice and put sawdust and straw between the blocks so that when a block was removed, the block behind it would not melt. My ex and I had a home down by Elkhorn Hot Springs that had an old Icehouse behind it. Ours was in a tunnel carved into the earth. Outside it was a huge pile of sawdust they had used for it. You see those granite block walls with the big gaps in them and then think of the block walls in the pyramids in Egypt with no gaps and seams that you can't slide a piece of paper in and marvel at that accomplishment thousands of years ago. When in mining ghost towns, always look under the door stoops. Miners were known to hide gold and silver or other valuables under them. Great video and thank you for taking me down memory lane!
I'm glad it was you and not me going up that steep narrow road. We just made a trip through some hilly country and I was a nervous wreck. Shame on you for holding the camera and driving!
No, I think these were vaults. We've seen many of the jail cells from that era and they were usually made of sheet iron and wood and are still standing. Nasty places that would cure most drinking problems.
On the map you showed, it doesn't look like it's too far from the Bitterroot Valley? Biggest mistake people make when heading down off a mountain like that is they ride their brakes all the way down, instead of using the lower gears in their vehicles. Very cool exploration video, I really enjoyed it. Ghost Towns are some of Jo-Ann and I's favorite places to visit.
Thank you for so much information beautifully narrated.
Loved history lesson
Thanks for the tour, nice video. I love random explorations.
YES, good job thank you stay safe ALL!
thanks rick n linda..I enjoyed ur video..
Thank you for another great video. God bless
Just love the trip ! Thanks so much 😊
What a great day. Thanks for sharing. 🐾🙏🏻✌🏻🤙🏻
Great tour, what a beautiful place!
Thanks Rick and Linda, very much enjoyed the tour!
Thanks again, John!
Thanks! I got my 100W solar panel!
Thanks for the tour. Very interesting!😊
Our pleasure!
been there loved it
Thanks for the rebate code. Just purchased one for myself.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Kind of fun to think of little pockets of treasures hidden and never recovered.
👍👍 very nice video, thanks for sharing.
Cool old ghost town. We like exploring those types of things too.
Thanks for sharing that bit of history !! Thanks Rick & Linda ! 😁👍
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching, Ralph.
Fun trip!
Purchased the folding solar panel to add to the kit.
They are handy to have around!
Thanks for the solar panel discount. It has been hotter than blue blazes here in central TX and there have been warnings of possible power outages, but this unit will relieve the worry of losing our freezer's contents if the worst happens.
What beautiful views from Granite, but what a road to get there!
After watching this, I had to subscribe! Very enjoyable video! I look forward to more! Thank you for sharing this adventure!
Welcome aboard! Be sure to check out our older videos as well, we've been putting out videos once a week for a couple of years.
Thanks! You both . Prayers for Maui.
Thanks again, Dennis! That's pretty sad what has happened on Maui, Linda lost friends there.
@@gonagain I am sorry,
Thanks for another fine video. Hope you two are well.
Hi Norman, hello Emily, thanks for the card and sticker! Love you guys.
Your welcome. Hope yall are having a good time. Did you any friends or family affected by the fires in Hawaii?@@gonagain
Just ordered one 100w panel. Thanks GonagainBIG! Smile
Just ordered an Itehil panel. What a deal! Thanks for the tip!
What a cool place to explore! I would love to travel back in time and see the town in its prime! Quite amazing 🤩
Thank for the tour of Granite...hard work and times of that era...sad to see the state has done little to maintain access and signage...Great video...thx
Saved this video to watch early this morning, 1st thing. Such fun exploring! Thank you for braving the road up to the mine. So many structures built & used for a relatively short period. Thanks. & as always, be well.
Thank you for sharing your morning with us!
Very cool guys ! 😁👍
Thanks! 😀
Thanks again Rick and Linda awesome video I had to stop half way through and order that panel great deal and I it's backed by you both then must be a great panel
Thank you. I loved seeing how much rock was used in constructing foundations and retaining walls - good way to make use of the rock they had to move while mining. Some of the wood on those old buildings was cut so straight - makes the stuff at Home Depot look poor by comparison. I'm so glad your camera makes the signs clear enough for me to read them - even on pause - which I cannot say about my own camera. Good job all around!
Thank you, Lucinda!
Loved this. You two find the neatest places. The scenery was beautiful.
We just stumbled across this place twelve years ago on a road trip. It was spring and there was still snow on the road. Took a risky chance driving up there in a rented RAV4. What a great time. I went into an old cabin near the bottom and found a 1951 newspaper still lying on a table. I use one of my photos for a screen saver. When we were there both the little cabins were standing but the one was in pretty rough shape and I see it has collapsed now.
Could you imagine going up or down that road with a horse and wagon . Ouch .
Thanks for the adventure.
I enjoyed every minute, Thank you. Very glad you didn't try to make it any shorter. Hope Phillipsburg had good pie
Phillipsburg was bustling with visitors and locals but no pie...darn it.
Yes to ice on the windows inside in the am. Grew up in the midwest.
Thank you for documenting these old towns as I am mourning the loss of Lahaina right now! E pule kākou! Prayers are needed for those lost and for the ‘aina.
Yes, we've finally located old family friends, they were in Kahului. Their homes and everything in them burned down. My classmate and husband are still missing. Lahaina has always been my second home as my older sisters used to live there. Rick and I met there. This is devastating, a big hole in our hearts.
@@gonagain I’m relieved that my friends texted safe, though they are struggling with no power communication water and food. I pray your friends will get through also. My heart is broken and so heavy!
I’m so sorry about the huge loss of life and property in Lahaina. My heart goes out all Hawaiians as they mourn their communal losses. So sorry Linda and Rick!
Great video
Thank you!
Oh my gosh, I was in Phillipsburg yesterday! I've heard of the town of Granite but forgot about it. I definitely would have visited if I remembered it 😂
That's a good reason to go back, visit the candy store and then drive up to Granite.
That stout wooden box might have been a horse watering trough.
We had a wood stove and we used to get up in the morning and make pictures with our hands on the frost on the inside the windows and walls, then of course we would run downstairs where mom had been up and started the fire. Beautiful simple childhood. Many memories and we were dirt poor but it didn't matter. :)
Sounds like a great childhood!
Great video tour, guys. And great tip on the Itehil panel. Just ordered two and your coupon code worked great. AND free shipping! Left them a generous tip, too. Thanks again.
I thoroughly enjoy when you take us exploring ❣️ Thank you both, Iris & Little One 👋🐾❌⭕
I’ve been busy so I’m trying to catch up with you all. I’ve missed your fun adventures!
I know just what you're talking about. Welcome back!
I would love to live there
Awesome......! =)
Great camera work.
Thank you very much!
:) WOW! and THANKS MUCH for sharing! I DID use your link to order my 1st Solar Panel at SUCH A DEAL! WELL DONE and ALL the BEST to you , Linda and Family! Cheers! :)
That water cannon and the land it was used on looks like a set from a Clint Eastwood movie.
Rick, I bet You & Linda are HAPPY that you upgraded the trailer leaf springs going up that road ! When i was a kid we went to my Grandmother's home town of "Rifle" in Colorado. it too was a "GHOST TOWN" although it was ALL preserved and compleet. Looks like nobody cared about "Granite"!
Love your adventures. Thanks for the commercial break. I just purchased a 100w suitcase solar panel and battery bank for 349.20 using your code. That's a very nice savings. 👍
Great video guys and thx for the coupon code! Just ordered a panel and got the big discount
My Grandpa was ahead of his time. He insulated the walls and attic with sawdust..Not very fire safe but warm..
My house was built in 1952 and when we bought it, about 12 years ago, the only insulation in the attic was a few inches of sawdust. After all these years no one put in decent insulation!!! We sure did.
I have been following you guys for quite some time. Thank you for sharing your stories with us. I know I enjoy them immensely. 👍🏻
Linda and Rick , my prayers are with the people of Maui.
Much appreciated, Dennis.
Wow, I went there in 2001! Almost forgot about that trip, but that road up there is one you don’t forget easily. Roads were much better condition back then tho. Amazing place and the views of the valley below were spectacular. And then down to Philipsburg for lunch - one of my favorite areas. Thanks for helping me reminisce.
Thank you for watching!
Rough Roads can have the best rewards. Looks like a very interesting place. No pie up there though eh? Fortunately for me, I have a boatload of blackberries to remove. My favorite method of disposal is in pie and cobbler though jam is very good for ice cream and pancakes.
My broski is at the Noxon Reservoir for the next 10 days. Beautiful country around there too. Take care guys...
Not even a cow pie could be found! We're finishing up a small remodel in our house, taking down a wall that separated the kitchen from the living room. Fun times. Loved the blackberry cobblers when we lived in WA.
You should do a little video on it. As you know, I worked as a general contractor for 40 years so I take interest in these things.
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@CITAP1 You'd know about rough roads Jeff 😁👍
Wow this was definitely an excellent video. Thank you for sharing such beauty and history with us 😊. Many blessings 🙏🏻
Thats a great deal on the Itehl Solar panel, I have one but may just order another or two
Hi Rick and Linda, these kinds of videos are very cool and informative. Stay safe.
Very enjoyable video! Loved the scenery and the old ghost town.
Linda, Hope your family and friends are safe in the fires in Hawaii!
Thank you, we've found our close family friends who were reported missing. Thankfully, they are all safe and sound; 3 homes and everything in them are all just ashes now but they are fine. Still missing my classmate and husband.
The unique purple color of these bottles is a result of the reaction between glass, manganese, and ultraviolet (UV) light. When exposed to sunlight, the glass turns a light pink or lavender to moderately dark amethyst or purple, depending on the amount of manganese and UV exposure.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for another great adventure. I'm not sure I could handle driving that road. Very interesting site.
High mountain roads are always interesting. I’ve been on a few where I had to saw thru and move down trees across the road. A little age brings wisdom and better planning! I’m sure you learn a lot along the way. Happy travels! 😎
Linda says we should get paid by the road maintenance dept on some of our explorations. Cutting limbs, moving rocks...fun times.
@@gonagain Send them a bill and see if they respond! LOL
Looking forward to seeing Philipsburg. My folks lived there in the mid 1960's, I came home on leave from Germany at Christmas time in 1966 for 30 days. It was 30 below zero and my Dad and I went fishing in Rock Creek for white fish.........brrrrr. I saw the first super bowl on Jan. 15, 1967 and left right after it for Germany.
Well, at least you didn't need to bring along a cooler for the fish!
That's for sure....almost froze my butt off.@@gonagain
There are many photos and videos of when more of the buildings were still standing and get a better idea of what it looked like. I remember that a woman was still living in one of the cabins up there years ago, and she died up there.
That might have been the woman whose cabin Linda showed at the end of the video.
The tram carts were amazing, bringing down material from the mountains were unreal to believe they built these these carts and tram ways .
And an amazing amount of manual labor!
The best areas for Ghost Towns out here
and Thank You for your videos.🤠👻
That old, washed out road, perfect for the e-bike.
Great content. Who needs Hollywood's writers when we have quality videos like yours!! Wondering if you could do a video on interesting artifacts that you have discovered throughout your travels?
Because we're always on public land we have to leave them where they lay. We've found a few arrowheads on private land though.
Great video, and one of your best explores. Just north of us there was a big silver strike in Cobalt Ontario. They had a vein of pure silver running through main street a foot wide. The town survived and the mines have rotted away such as this. Lots of history if you look for it.
Very few of the old mining towns survived to this day. Most of them disappeared as the building materials were removed to build again elsewhere.
We knew it was particularly cold night when a canned veggie would freeze and bust open the mason jar they were canned I . They were always stored under my bed.
Yeah, that's cold!
been there done that
Thank you very much for taking us through all this I remember reading about this place years ago and always thought it would be a fantastic place to go visit
Great video! Wish I could afford the solar panel, great price just don't have it. :)
That road to the Ghost Town seemed very sketchy especially pulling a trailer. That’s quite the deal on the Itehil solar panel. I’ve got multiple 100 watt panels already or I’d definitely get one
I wish we had places like that to ride in FL.🙄 Great job you two👍✌
Interesting history. It's hard to imagine the kind of work that went into constructing some of those buildings!
And thanks for the top and code on the solar panel! It's like the one I got with my Rockpal. I have been wanting to get a second 100w folding solar panel, so I wasted no time ordering it at $100! That was the hold up, I couldn't see paying over $200 for one. Thanks!
I certainly have to catch up on your videos....been a good minute since I've watched any....you know...LIFE😮😮. I love your adventures and hope to be going full time on the road SOON ❤❤(Anne Marie using hubby's account)
Hello Anne Marie, welcome back!
Me and the wife will be up that way in about a week….just might add this to the list.
Be safe out there
Enjoy your visit!
Water on the nightstand would freeze in east Tennessee, Appalachia.
That's it exactly. Like my bedroom when we lived in NH.
I remember watching videos a few years ago of a guy who lived near there, but he used his 4WD side-by-side to go up those roads. I almost purchased a cabin in that area, but after the wife left, I gave up on the idea. My kids would have loved it. Have fun, Mike
You can have a lot of fun with a 4 wheeler in this state!
Thank goodness you didn't run into any bears😮
Shoestring is suppose to be up that way
We'll be watching for him!
You talked about how hard it was in the winter, living in a house with no insulation. It reminded me of a paperback I read, I believe it is: Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866.
It's considered one of the most accurate books on pioneer life. In it, she describes how they moved to Denver and her husband worked at the mine. If I remember the book right, she said that Denver only had 3000 people at the time, and their first place was in a cave with a wooden front and a blanket to keep out the winter wind. I'm thinking a blanket over the doorway in the mountains in the dead of winter is a little on the roughing-it side.
Folks worked harder and were hardier than we are now. Some of the first settlers in Montana lived in dugouts and caves first, then started building their cabins.
@@gonagain We? I'm not tough? It's not like I'd fight a grizzly with a pocket knife or anything, but...Ha! just kidding.
Which reminds me, I heard of a bear that must be tougher than a grizzly bear. A Grissle Bear. I write for an Amish Outdoor mag (I'm not Amish) and I have been holding contests. This was for 15 yr olds and under. One of the qualifications was to name a favorite animal for which one 9yr old put down the Grissle Bear.
I have a friend who works for the USFS there in Philipsburg …
Beautiful area.
One of the best and most interesting ghost town videos. Interesting, no extra verbiage, just sound reporting. The great days of America! And they did all that work and created all that wealth with no social security, and no "woke" ideology!
Nice video, Thank you for inviting us to go on your beautiful journey, a dangerous one at that. LOL This is my third time living here in Montana through The years since 1964. By the way I'm 63 almost 64. It's a beautiful state. you pay $9 and roads are dangerous. Unkept Museum, Is very shameful. Take care, thank you for the video again.
Thanks for watching our videos.
Wow Rick and Linda, I for 1,truly appreciate the knowledge of this type of Historical knowledge that you bring to us.I would like to know, where is this Ghost Town located?You may have said, however, I apologize, I totally missed it.
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Yes, Montana and not too far from Phillipsburg.
@@gonagain ok, tyvvm Rick.That looks like a cool place to visit
I love seeing the old places. I just wish that the buildings were still standing. I can’t imagine working with a steam shovel. They had to have been hard to operate. I have worked on a 30-B dragline before but that would be easy in comparison to operating the steam shovel.
My kind of video, and my kind of road!
Thanks for mentioning that ghost towns were not destroyed, but they were recycled. Now I get to use my imagination!
I’m surprised at the “permit” move by Montana.
I had a good lunch in a Philipsburg cafe about ten years ago. Quiet little town. Do I need to buy a permit to park on the street now?
Montana's State Parks require a permit or a fee to use. The town of Phillipsburg itself isn't part of the Granite ghost town. You can still get a great lunch there, and don't forget the bakery or the candy store!
I forget the name of the ghost town between Lincoln and Ovando. Is it Garnet? I believe so. 😅
Yes, that's it.
Years ago, my brother was the Sherriff of Granite County. My ex and I went there and took our CJ jeep up to the town and mines. It looks a lot the same except it is more overgrown than it was when we were there. At that time, you could drive everywhere up there and we did. Also, there wa sno signs at all and it was not a museum. It was just a ghost town. One of the buildings we found was an assay office and it had core samples in it from the mine. It was very interesting. And no there was no private areas either. Although we did not come across the shaft at that time.
And that carved are you called a root cellar, could have been an Icehouse., They would carve ice out of ponds and put it in a tunnel in the ground or in a building with thick walls. The walls would be filled with sawdust for insulation, and they would put in the ice and put sawdust and straw between the blocks so that when a block was removed, the block behind it would not melt. My ex and I had a home down by Elkhorn Hot Springs that had an old Icehouse behind it. Ours was in a tunnel carved into the earth. Outside it was a huge pile of sawdust they had used for it.
You see those granite block walls with the big gaps in them and then think of the block walls in the pyramids in Egypt with no gaps and seams that you can't slide a piece of paper in and marvel at that accomplishment thousands of years ago.
When in mining ghost towns, always look under the door stoops. Miners were known to hide gold and silver or other valuables under them.
Great video and thank you for taking me down memory lane!
Thanks for adding your story!
I'm glad it was you and not me going up that steep narrow road. We just made a trip through some hilly country and I was a nervous wreck. Shame on you for holding the camera and driving!
I've been to a ghost town long time ago outside of Anaconda. I looked Granite on Wikipedia, very fascinating and an excellent episode.
I wonder if the first fortified building was a jail cell?
No, I think these were vaults. We've seen many of the jail cells from that era and they were usually made of sheet iron and wood and are still standing. Nasty places that would cure most drinking problems.
...one arm is broken .... " hang on , im gonna try something ; i just wish i had not drank all that cough syrup ! " 😅😂
On the map you showed, it doesn't look like it's too far from the Bitterroot Valley?
Biggest mistake people make when heading down off a mountain like that is they ride their brakes all the way down, instead of using the lower gears in their vehicles.
Very cool exploration video, I really enjoyed it. Ghost Towns are some of Jo-Ann and I's favorite places to visit.
Yeah, it's just east of the Bitterroot.