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This is my driver and wife (I like to spot just to see the action) 4 months pregnant in front of one of atleast 4 mines in the Mary Ellen complex. I'm bummed that I didn't take the time to take pictures of the others. They all look like they are about to collapse. With the recent mine collapses here in Utah I am way to chicken (or smart) to venture inside. If anyone goes in please take a camara.
Close up of the mine entrance
This outhouse is rickety and overhanging a 200 foot rock slide. Pretty, but possibly too tense to relax those sphincters.
Two seats snug together. For the old, hairy miners to keep eachother warm while on the pot in the winter???
This is where it ended for George Tying. That was one tough life. There are huge pulleys and beems dating from before there were FJ ancestors to carry them up this rough terrain.
The aspens are about to change color
Just so you know this angle is also exagerated. . . by about 5 degrees. (I am on the road)
great pictures. The scenes are alot like where I go. Colorado is criss-crossed so many times over by mining roads, which are now trails. I lived in Utah, left, and can't wait to go back for good.
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cool pics, exploring old mines is fun but very dangerous and illegal too. Not only collapsing but many animals make it home and dont like you spelunking it.
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cool pics, exploring old mines is fun but very dangerous and illegal too. Not only collapsing but many animals make it home and dont like you spelunking it.
Thus, why I, for one, will never go into a mine, ever.
great pictures. The scenes are alot like where I go. Colorado is criss-crossed so many times over by mining roads, which are now trails. I lived in Utah, left, and can't wait to go back for good.
I've been looking at a cool job and cool mining claims around Ouray/Silverton. Amazing, we are talking hundreds of mines, mostly dug by small, poorly equiped prospectors hauling giant steel pieces by burro. These guys were sooo tough, IMHO.
I'm glad you got the caution on the mines. Have to watch the ground around them too. I had to turn around on top of a mine once, had visions of a collapse. Still, cool pictures.
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XDI Intake; Firestone Destination MTs; Bilstein 5100s; AllPhase Custom Skid; Garvin Wilderness extension roof rack; Custom control arm skids; Racing Stripes added when "Road Narrows".
Stay on the trail or I'll have to shame you into behaving.
I'm glad you got the caution on the mines. Have to watch the ground around them too. I had to turn around on top of a mine once, had visions of a collapse. Still, cool pictures.
I share you caution of mines. Just in case anyone was concerned, we did not go into any of the mines and the truck was parked a quarter mile away. I love seeing them and imagining what just one season must have been like up there. They probably only saw a couple people per season. Lots of moose, deer, bears, mountain goats and hawks. Very impressive work.
Thank you for the pics!! I'm fascinated by the mine. I wonder if you go in deep enough if it opens up. Wow.
Typically, no. Some modern mines, especially salt mines, are huge and expansive, but most of these old hand ore workings are snakelike affairs that followed various veins into the mountain. Not for the claustrophobic. You can get a sense of how tight they are by looking at the size of the opening and the gauge of the cart track in the OP's pics. Up where I live we have a ton of old iron workings. The state undertook an effort 50 or 60 years ago to seal them off, due to the numbers of adventurous people that died in them, sometimes taking rescuers with them. I make a hobby out of finding them on old maps, and we have discovered one or two that aren't sealed, but I wouldn't enter them for anything, even with the right equipment. It's a ****ty place to spend eternity. In the OP's pic you can see the condition of the shoring timbers is not good. Here in the wetter NE climate they don't last even that long.
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Typically, no. Some modern mines, especially salt mines, are huge and expansive, but most of these old hand ore workings are snakelike affairs that followed various veins into the mountain. Not for the claustrophobic. You can get a sense of how tight they are by looking at the size of the opening and the gauge of the cart track in the OP's pics. Up where I live we have a ton of old iron workings. The state undertook an effort 50 or 60 years ago to seal them off, due to the numbers of adventurous people that died in them, sometimes taking rescuers with them. I make a hobby out of finding them on old maps, and we have discovered one or two that aren't sealed, but I wouldn't enter them for anything, even with the right equipment. It's a ****ty place to spend eternity. In the OP's pic you can see the condition of the shoring timbers is not good. Here in the wetter NE climate they don't last even that long.
I'm suprise that these ones are open. I can totally see drunk teenagers being tempted to explore even though the thing is about to fall in. I does make is seem alot more mysterious though. Like you've discovered something that the MAN has not yet locked up and controlled.
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