Abandoned Gold Mine in Death Valley

High in a narrow canyon of Death Valley lie the remnants of a once prosperous gold mine. The bunkhouse/kitchen and a couple of miners' cabins, built in the 1930s/40s, are still intact, along with many artefacts.
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[@debbiemclaughlin3460]

Very nice. Enjoyed this video.

[@rhondaz356]

This was so interesting, and informative, from start to finish. I totally enjoyed this video. I can see why you would not like to publicize such a *loaded site. Thank you so much, Andrea and Steven... and you, too, Jenni. 😃🤠🧡 I will check out your channel. I like it when people promote other channels.👏 All I kept thinking is imagine needing to use the outhouse AT NIGHT! YIKES 🥺

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Why, thank you, Rhonda. We had a fun time exploring with Jenni - more to come. And we have done a super colab which we'll be posting in a couple of weeks, so keep a look out for that one.

[@ronaldsmith2860]

I wouldn't worry about the lead paint just don't eat it. You won't find any modern paint still around in a hundred years like that,

[@exploringabandonedmines]

The "bucket" @ 28:23 is part of the ore cart that you showed just before that. The wheels and axles are missing.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you! Would love to see one of that size intact, Jenni and Andrea could have fit in it! There were more extensive workings around we just ran out of daylight to explore more!

[@frederickmoller]

Here in Northeastern Ontario Canada all the abandoned shafts are covered with concrete slabs with hooks embedded into the concrete slabs as they are usually by a crane or such, as we are in relatively flat ground (no mountains here,and very few adits).

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We have seen that in certain locations here in the states too, if the shafts are really dangerous. The majority are open, with signs stating the dangers of course.

[@RamblinTed]

Just found your channel and I’m loving it! So cool to see fellow travelers.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you so much Ted. Glad you are enjoying our content, hopefully it helps inspire some cool places to visit!

[@pixelpeter3883]

Cool you guys teamed up with Jenni :-) Loved the intro!! Good (visual) story-telling with nice close-ups combined with you lot walking up, close-ups of plants and wild-life. Great location which seems remarkably well preserved, so kudos for you to try and keep it that way! ;-) There were plenty of adverts while I watched, so you guys must really rake it in :-p Just wondering: will you be doing anything with the Crystal Geyser footage you teased a couple of videos ago, or was there no story to tell in that erea?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

No real story there, Peter. Sorry. Maybe we'll do a video on different clips throughout our explores. Glad you're following Jenni.

[@raymondcoggins297]

Another awesome adventure with PIN and my coffee awesome place

[@roseapple8786]

Thank you for the tour of the remains of the mines and cabins, beautiful mountains and the sunset. Hope you made it down the mountain before dark. I watch Jenni too. God Bless and be safe.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

It did get dark before we managed to get back to the truck. Fortunately, we had torches - still we had to be more diligent.

[@delbump]

The adding of one more voice one more opinion was great keep up the great work

[@rikspector]

Andrea and Steven, I'm pretty sure that is a Chuckwalla Lizard, it looks like the one I saw on the Bright Angel Trail I hiked out of the Grand Canyon. The get between cracks in rocks and puff up their bodies so they so they can't be removed. The Native Americans used to poke them with a stick to deflate them. They tasted like chicken. :) For anyone reading this THAT IS MY BACKYARD!!!!!! The world is my back yard...really!!! Cheers, Rik Spector

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks, Rik. Hopefully more people will enjoy "their back yard" and respect it.

[@kenp9469]

Nice as always. But even nicer, when some of my favorite bloggers get together.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks, Ken. We had a fun time with Jen. Another collab with her coming out soon.

[@maryelmaguire3161]

That’s great Jenni came along. I follow her

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We had a lot of fun Maryel. Jen is so funny. More adventures to come.

[@cfinstr]

I am subscribed to Pin In The Atlas and Jenni Gives. Both great channels.

[@tangie777uk]

Absolutely wonderful as always. Will check out Jennies channel too. I really look forward to your videos. Thankyou Andrea and Steve

[@JenniGives]

Thank you!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Ahh, thank you so much. Glad you are enjoying our 'pins'. Jenni is unique and so is her channel. She is such a wonderful human being with a heart of gold.

[@frederickmoller]

Thanks for not revealing the location, but not to worry as I will never visit here, because I am going to live-out my life in my home town, the mining city of Timmins ON, Canada. Though it was cool to watch your video...Thanks!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Ontario is beautiful have been there many times Frederick. Thank you, we have several coming out soon that we aren't giving out locations for. We are really glad you enjoyed our Pin!

[@casedoumasr656]

Hello to the adventure group glad you got together on this Discovery and Jenni allways puts a BIG smile on every one face .🏆p.s at 28 I believe that was a tram ore bucket not a wheeled ore car 👻🤔 thank you for the tag along loved the travels .⛏️

[@PinInTheAtlas]

So glad you enjoyed this adventure. We had so much fun exploring with Jen. She kept us in stitches the whole way.

[@mobiltec]

If you read Drills and Mills you will know a hell of a lot about mining. And all mines are pretty much the same.

[@001desertrat3]

YES , I've been there , interesting place to explore , but the thing that got to me was how much effort they expended in getting everything up there . For example , those Servel Refrigerators , I've got a Servel Refrigerator and that thing is Heavy , I can't imagine them dragging those things up that mountain . @28:19 - that's the hopper for a Side Dumping ore Car . -- < Doc > .

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Even when the old mining road was intact, it would have been a feat to get those fridges up there, and the other equipment. That always amazes us.

[@charleshicks3492]

Fantastic; loved every second of it. Keep up the pins😎

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you so much Charles. We are doing our best and learning with every video!

[@metingokbulut837]

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[@richardbeee]

Such a great "pin". Glad you have chosen to start keeping locations secret. I think those pans/bowls were for that night-time thing. You know, when you don't wan't to be walking along a little path on the side of a cliff in the dark of night. Now that shovel experience could have very well happened. Often the Tommy-knockers, those friendly imps of the miners, will show you a shovel because they know that the mine is not done. A hint, so to speak. On the way up i really enjoyed the view. That arch behind the gals was classic. Was it the explore? Or the journey up? It was both. Three beautiful people, in a rugged yet wonderful background, hmm... I'll have to check out that old gals videos. She's kind of cool. Ah...well, what should i expect from the likes of you two. Great editing, lovely hike, beautiful people, what a cup of coffee and what a cool explore. If your friend is ever in the area tell her to stop by. Until next week, have fun, be safe, walk lightly, and never leave a trace.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you so much Richard, true friendships and real genuine people are more precious than gold in our opinion. We have been so fortunate to have been in the company of so many incredible individuals in our travels like yourself, who have made this journey all the more memorable and enjoyable. Jenni is so much fun and so down to earth another great person we are honoured to have met and become friends with. Tommy knockers! Yes, we remember you telling us about them now. This was such a fun find and Pin. Andrea still swears that she absolutely seen a shovel there and was excited to get it on camera.

[@richardbeee]

@@PinInTheAtlas So did Andrea stick her tongue out when i said possibly a bed pan After pretending to eat out of it? :-)And did y'all notice that arch or was it my imagination.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@richardbeee No takes more than that for Andrea to stick her tongue out. And didn't notice the arch when about was it?

[@richardbeee]

@@PinInTheAtlas When you were standing on top of the waterfall waiting for the girls to climb up to you. Was to the upper left.

[@richardbeee]

@@PinInTheAtlas between 18:23 and 18:43

[@paulsimonds9270]

What beautiful scenery and a nice clear day. There was also some nice interesting finds after a good healthy walk. What where they mining up there in Death Valley from seeing the mines and exploratory mines?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Gold mining, Paul. Although there are also a lot of talc mines in DV

[@amygawalko]

Of all the things I could watch on KZbin, watching Your videos are my best breaks ever! Thank You again for sharing Your awesome adventures.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you so much Amy, we really appreciate that! Glad you are enjoying our Pins!

[@seb3317]

Jenni looks lovely have subscribed to her channel looking forward for more locations !

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks, Seb. She's a great gal and really fun to explore with.

[@JenniGives]

Welcome aboard Seb! Nice to meet you!

[@Corgis175]

That was quite a climb 2 miles each way but well worth it. All 3 of you have to be pretty fit. I have already subscribed to JenniGives vlog.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks, Arleen. What you didn't see is me stopping every 10 minutes or so because my sciatica was playing up! Hence the real reason we didn't climb the dry falls. lol

[@garydoyle7155]

you could see where the Park Service or someone had braced that whole cabin to keep it standing - - easy to spot new 2x4s added to support weak areas especially the diagonal one covering where the flue pipe from the stove went. When dating things look for nails - - the old square hand made versus the round manufactured ones. Congrats on this new one you're getting the terminology right. Remember Jeff's explanation of the timed explosions to fracture the wall then then bottom ones went off to drop it on the muck sheet - - he studied the process and I'm sure talked to some old timers but my point is he started where you guys were but had an interest (in his case a passion) and he sucked up knowledge like a sponge until when you talk to him its like being there with a miner who worked the mine - - same thing with Frank. People will follow you both because they can relate to seeing everything through your eyes and they feel they are learning right along with you. You were completely right to not make it easy to find - - the folks that want to see it for the right reason will make the effort. As the old cowboys I knew would say - - ya done good

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We love learning new things all the time and sharing that with everyone who watches our content. Some very quickly forget that not everyone was born knowing about mines, mining equipment, or how everything about history and how it all worked. Doesn't mean we don't have the upmost respect for the hard work, sheer determination and ingenuity it took to make a go at it back then. Makes us more appreciative of our past and ancestors and we want to make sure their stories continue to be told.

[@charleyfolkes]

It almost seems like someone is keeping them clean but kind of arrested decay ? Sorta stabilized with the trussing here and there almost like Bodie. The Meyers Bakery box is pretty interesting. I wonder where that business was ?!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

It did seem rather clean considering the location and the amount of traffic this site gets (according to the log book). Looked like it had just been swept.

[@barrybradbury513]

Hi Andrea & Steven where did you live in Australia Andrea and have you heard the song called the red back on the toilet seat oh and another name for the dunny is the thunder box

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Hi Barry. I had an apartment in E. Vic Park (Perth) but also did the fruit picking season for a couple of years- apples, pears, toms, lemons etc (you get the idea). I got bitten by a red back whilst picking grapes in the Barossa Valley, swam with crocs in Katherine Gorge and Sharks on the GB Reef. And carved up on corral. Don't remember it being called the thunder box though.

[@edwardparkhurst9804]

Great video that you have shown, I've never been to death valley it was quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Death Valley is a remarkable place. One we definitely recommend visiting.

[@lornahardin4563]

A fun video as usual. Do you ever come across rattlers? Some cool shots of the "varmits".

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We have only seen one, once. That was many years ago out on a hike, way before we did KZbin.

[@lornahardin4563]

@@PinInTheAtlas Lucky, I always wonder what is lurking under the rocks. My Siamese cat years ago, used to being them home. He got bit 3 times, but cats build an immunity. Glad you check the area out first.

[@mickeyrichards5503]

Speaking of spiders... how often do you see tarantulas?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Not often, Mickey. The only time we saw one up close was on our explore of Tyro Mine. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmjSqHuLad6SZ5o

[@funride58]

I watched the video a few days ago and didn't have time to comment. The bowel you show at 13:00 is probably a washing bowel that they used to bath themselves. The hole is for hanging it up on a nail probably.

[@rogersmith7396]

When will you do the Dream Team with Frank and Jeff?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

It’s coming Roger. Stay tuned.

[@jamesparker6876]

I have already subscribed to Jenni Gives, just ask her about James Parker.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Will do, James.

[@JenniGives]

Mr. James Parker the one and only! Luv you Buddy! I told them all the awesome things about you.

[@jamesparker6876]

To: @@JenniGives I am looking forward to your video about this area.

[@DaveSuzukiExploration]

It's always the places that are least accessible that yield the best outcome. This location is a satisfactory example of that! I was amazed at the condition of the numerous buildings standing. While some appeared destroyed and in ruins, I didn't see many signs of vandalism or graffiti. Great video. You guys found a real gem with this location.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We totally agree. There were no signs of vandalism but we expect that a lot of the artefacts have "gone missing". Glad you enjoyed it and looking forward to exploring with you.

[@DaveSuzukiExploration]

@@PinInTheAtlas Agreed, Looking forward to this summer!

[@dennisrhoads8866]

I love this channel! Very interesting and relaxing.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you very much!

[@allenthibault9523]

I know some wonderer who was here ... No names !!!🤓🤗🤗🤗

[@mikepelz7004]

OMG, I just got Jenni's T shirt 😀😀

[@waynebender8835]

A nice video. Are you aware of the story dealing about the missing Park Ranger? He made one more circular patrol of the area. Before he was going to retire. He disappeared. No one knows if he intended to disappear or something happened to him. A 441 story or it was Red West KZbin Channel. I can't remember.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Yes, we have heard of this story before and did attempt to do more research on it to no avail. If you do have more info on it would you please email us. We are incredibly interested in doing a video on it!

[@waynebender8835]

@@PinInTheAtlas I won't guarantee finding something; but I will try.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@waynebender8835 if you do, please email the info. Thanks Wayne. [e-mail]

[@delphiniapickett2934]

Y'all can pin a map location would be nice to understand quickly where you are. I have to Google map it. I am sure enjoying y'all. I will be voting my step brother in June if I can talk him into short travels to ghost towns would so exciting. He lives in Chandler, Az which is east of Phoenix Arizona. I can borrow his little car and take short drugs by myself or take my son with me who lives in the border of Tempe and east Phoenix. But I used to drive from Las Cruces New Mexico to Chandler Arizona to see and help my brother out and drove back I surely enjoyed it but if I knew a few stops that I could explore I would have done it. Wish I never left the Southwest but someday. Who knows. Y'all put a special spot in my heart we relate and have a passion for southwest history. It is where all my ancestors came from settled. Even from Europe and Spain. Mom said in New Mexico we are all mixed not from Mexico because of the euro settlements. We have red hair to light brown to dark or light eyes. Native indian feature to euro features. My sister's and I are all completely look different. Mom from NM dad is from CA. His mom urgent from Mexico but the different history and my mother has a completely different mystery. And they're Spanish is more Castilian but she hit that from us for many years. I did talk to her older cousins my uncle that live in New Mexico so it's been very interesting history and very unique.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you so much Delphinia, for sharing all that with us. You may find our blogs on our website interesting. We give information, location, links and google map links. For our KZbin explores, we don't give out locations on some of our explores to help protect them from vandals. The ones we do give the place name, you can put into google to research the location. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching and glad you are enjoying our content. The link to our website is pinintheatlas.com/

[@chrisblack8390]

That was so good. I loved the cabin with the refrigerator. Looks like people stay in that often. It is good to see Jenny too. I missed her video of this. I've been caught up in the people's protest in Washington. They really need more people making videos. If you want to go thru hell to get a whole bunch of viewers, it would be the place to go. I'm watching Sasnak. He's a truck driver and goes out west. It started February 23rd from California/Arizona and went across the country to Maryland. I even went to greet some of them when they came thru Indiana. I missed the best one. 2 hrs south. Dang it. Monrovia, Indiana. Check out a video of that. They had the biggest flag in the world' i think. I took a picture of a truck i see every day driving around the beltway. Bad things are starting to happen. Rocks an bricks thrown from overpasses. Nails. Cops are blocking exit ramps for no reason an they are causing accidents so the protest will get blamed. I don't think I said anything to get you in trouble. Thank you so much for the video I loved every bit of it. Happy late St. Patrick's day! Cheers

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks so much Chris! Jenni is so much fun her video came out yesterday and it is really good! Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day To You Too!

[@johnyanderson6604]

Thank you so much, this one was so interesting and nature is beautiful, i start to getting addicted to this videos, I also following Brend's videos from Cerro Gordo, just love the Navada..💯👌

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Glad you enjoyed it, Johny. Cerro Gordo was our first ever video. Our audio isn't the best as all we used was the phone to record. You may enjoy it though! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKCcaXZ4rN1ordk

[@bobeldredge282]

Some call it the loo, others the John, I call mine the Jim, that way I can tell everyone that I go to the gym every morning, just saying! Thanks Bob the welder

[@PinInTheAtlas]

🤣

[@debbiemclaughlin3460]

Get the flame thrower for the scorpion. Aaaah. Been stung a few times by those devils.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

😂As long as you don't go near them, they're fine. It's the little ones that are more dangerous!

[@debbiemclaughlin3460]

@@PinInTheAtlas yes. We moved into an old ranch camp years ago . The house was nice but it had 🦂 on occasion until we got rid of them with good ol Ortho Home defense bug spray. They stung us in bed several times. Not fun. Burns like hellfire. Anyway we lives peacefully after getting rid of them. 5 years we were there and never had another one in the house.

[@cfinstr]

As long as they are not in your home or toilet area, leave desert wildlife alone. :-)

[@superdayday3462]

Subed to Jennys channel, from Pin in the Atlas referral. Nice video, I can not go in caves, so will let you do it, I can not handle the close in feeling. This was very interesting.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you, Jenni is such a wonderful person and has a wicked sense of humour! We will be exploring with her many more times!

[@cfinstr]

The bed frames look like old Korean War vintage fold up bed frames. My parents had one. It still is at their home.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

That is so cool! Things were built to last then, really wish it was still that way.

[@janblake9468]

The US military terms for a bathroom is either latrine or head. I had to laugh at Jenni wearing dark glasses inside the mine adit.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

They're prescription sunglasses. She forgot to bring her other glasses, so kept them on!

[@JenniGives]

LOL oh I love making people laugh, we could use more of that these days. Also yes, new prescription sunglasses :D

[@janblake9468]

@@JenniGives Hi Jenni. It's Francis. It looked as if you had a great time on this hike. I watched your clip of it too.

[@carolmcclearen4123]

Lead paint was up to 1978.

[@josephmyatt7382]

You guys have a long way from your very start when we first viewed your videos

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you Joseph, we are learning new things everyday with our videography, editing and strive to always become better.

[@TammyAZBear]

Great video with Jeff Williams. New subscriber. 💗

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Welcome Tammy. We hope you enjoy our content.

[@rebabutcher1433]

The basin you found in the kitchen, was a wash basin. The hole on the rim was to hang it up on a nail when you were finished using it. My grandparents had one on the back porch so when the men came in from working on the farm, they could wash up before a meal. No inside plumbing back in those days. Enjoyed your video today. So interesting and a lot of fun!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks for that, Reba, we weren't sure. It was suggested that it could have been a pee bucket! So glad you enjoyed the video. Lots more to come.

[@rebabutcher1433]

@@PinInTheAtlas I read that! But men wouldn’t use a pee bucket, (I don’t think lol) . Be safe!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@rebabutcher1433 too true - how lucky are they lol!!! maybe a poop bucket!!

[@rebabutcher1433]

@@PinInTheAtlas 😂😂

[@carlwest859]

I'm probably not the only more senior viewer who used those pans in primitive households many decades ago. Usually a wash and shaving basin for the men, catch basin for a wet diaper in the wee hours of the morn, ladies bed pan when snow was on the path to the outhouse, and a wash basin for women's ditties and unmentionable contrivances. So there were his, her and utility basins under one roof. Modern plumbing is marvelous.

[@jr2no160]

Yeah a Jeni Gives collaboration, further honing her hiking skills. Y'all not so short ladies, my Mother was 4'9" and Grandmother 4'11". 😎

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Best things come in little packages.

[@jr2no160]

@@PinInTheAtlas true 💯

[@olliespackrt5763]

i love Jennys shirt!

[@joeya.4849]

Argh! Completely forgot to comment. Love, love, love this exolore, the three of you. Always love Miss Jenni! What a superb remote location. Oh, and, the ubiquitous 'bog', as we called it! 😂 Shovel? 🤔 Was Stephen correct? Or, is it haunted? 🤔😂

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We have been told, it was probably the Tommy Knockers. Which are indeed a miners friend as long as you pay attention to what they are trying to tell you! Jenni kept us smiling the whole trip that is for sure she is great!

[@joeya.4849]

@@PinInTheAtlas Oh, that's good to know! With spring round the corner, I'll start heading out more, and I'll need to keep the Tommy Knockers in mind. And, Jenni is such a kind soul.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@joeya.4849 She truly is and we are grateful to be able to call her our friend.

[@phillip5545]

I like your videos. Luckily my wife and I have done what you are doing. We did it from 1971 until 2017. We just took photos only for ourselves but no videos. We always had a nice RV. You are doing it the hard way. I give you a lot of credit. You have a hard life. We have subscribed and will always give you a thumbs up to help support your channel. Have you done a video explaining who you are? It would be nice to know a bit about where you are both from and how you arrived at this adventure.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Wow, 71 to 17. Now that is putting pins in the atlas! We haven't done an actual video, but we do touch on it in our Journey series, however, we have an "About Us" page on our website which goes into more detail. pinintheatlas.com/ Thank you so much for your support, and hope you continue enjoying our content.

[@phillip5545]

@@PinInTheAtlas I read your bio. Thanks for telling us more about you. You seem like really nice folks. We wish you much success. I just looked at one of your older videos. You were having issues with condensation in your truck bed. Did you solve that issue? If not, I can tell you how to solve it. Let me know. I have spent my life outdoors and since 1970, my wife also joined me in our outdoor adventures. In the 60's, I came of age in central Florida. in 1964, I hitchhiked to Oregon and got a job working in the woods. I worked in the woods as a surveyor in Oregon, Washington, California and three years in Alaska. Some of my time in Alaska was living in the wilderness in a log cabin. I was there in the 'old' Alaska BEFORE the Alaska pipeline. Starting in 1971, my new wife and I purchased our first motorhome. I met my wife at Florida State University in 1969 and married in Dec. 1970) In 1970 before we got married, my girlfriend flew from Florida to Fairbanks, Alaska and came to our wilderness camps and was our cook. She had just gotten her Masters Degree from FSU. Three guys and her in the wilderness. That impressed me so much I married her. We've now been together for 53 years. All these years, all I had to say to her was how about another adventure and she would say, when do we leave? In the past 30 years, we spent most of our time in the West exploring old ghost towns and old mine sites. We had motorhomes towing a Toyota extended cab with an ATV in the bed of the truck (just like yours....white too). We've had solar on the roofs of our last two motorhomes since the early 90's. We would travel just for fun seven months a year and then live at our home in Oregon during the summer. Probably 75% of our boondock camping sites were on Public Lands in Arizona, Utah and Nevada. We love the open spaces of the SW desert. We park the MH in some really remote spot and then take the ATV and explore everything within 25 miles in all directions. We got to go places where nobody ever goes. We had three storage boxes on our ATV so we could take lots of stuff with us. The last 15 years, we carried an emergency satellite beacon for emergencies. Luckily, we never had to use it. We feel lucky that we did what we did when we were relatively young. Many of the things we did and places we went are now closed. Just too many people now. We live on a couple of acres about 25 miles south of Portland, Oregon. We have two RV sites with full hookups on our property. If you guys are ever up this way, you are welcome to stay here for a couple of days. We're close to I-5 but out in the country. You could take showers and do some laundry. When temps in the desert start hitting 90F, you might like to head north. We love 60F to 75F. We just followed the seasons in our MH so everywhere we went, it was in those temperature ranges. RV and truck beds are not a fun place to be when temps are really cold or hot.. My wife grew up partially in Sweden and I grew up partially in Germany. We have lived in probably 50 places during our lifetimes. My wife Greta has collected dinosaur bones and other semiprecious rocks for 50 years and is a pretty well know glass artist. Keep up the great videos. Stick a new pin in it!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@phillip5545 Thank you for sharing. It seems you have both had a life full of adventures. No we haven't had any luck with solving the condensation issues. When we can, we leave the windows and the back open. When its all closed up and its cold - that's when we get the issues. By all means share any info you can email us at [e-mail] If you have any suggestions about explores, please let us know via email. Thanks once again

[@tinadelwiche416]

Yeah Steven Andrea is your Desert flower so keep treating her right.🙃🙂

[@PinInTheAtlas]

She absolutely is Tina in a bleak landscape she shines bright and keeps me headed in the right direction. I am so very fortunate.

[@tinadelwiche416]

@@PinInTheAtlas yes I agree

[@davec9244]

Epic explore definitely putting a pin in that spot, good job. I am, all always will be a big fan of Jenni! thank you please stay safe ALL

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Glad you enjoyed our explore Dave. Jen is great fun, we had a lovely time exploring with her. More to come.

[@JenniGives]

Luv you Dave

[@dezertraider]

WOW,VERY COOL..SUN SET WAS AWESOME..STAY AWESOME!SEE YOU NEXT TIME..

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks, Ralph. We didn't make it down until after dark!!! Fortunately, we had several torches. See you on our next adventure.

[@diane1390]

It was in Death Valley, that the desert got in my blood. Now I bleed sand!!!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

😆DV is our favourite NP too

[@jerroldmcley4347]

Who is she there is no link

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Jenni ‘ link is in the description Jerrold.

[@caryward8251]

Good evening, Andrea & Stephen. Enjoyed your last video with Jenni and very happy y’all got together! I subscribed to both of your channels after seeing you on Wonderhussy’s Videos. I really liked the interaction between y’all during the filming. So many times it seems when there are more than one filmmaker, they tend to go off on their own path. I like the way you can bounce ideas between each other and maybe get a different perspective about the subject observed! Also, curious who to contact to have a protective structure over the open shaft that you found at the mine. Will you be having a Live Stream? Have you ever made a video about the “Painted Desert “ in Arizona? Keep Safe & Healthy!!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Hi Cary, and thanks for all the compliments. We had a fun time with Jenni and another video to come, so stay tuned. We have made a video on the Painted Desert which is on our Patreon page. What a beautiful area it is. As far as doing live streaming, probably not. Being on the road, living in Tonto, we don't or rarely have decent wifi, plus we never really know where we are going to be, our plans change daily! So happy you are enjoying our explores.

[@voiceofraisin241]

I wonder if this was scotty’s mine where he got the money to build his castle?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Good question!

[@voiceofraisin241]

@@PinInTheAtlas thanks for responding. I am not so sure the dates line up properly. I just went and looked it up. They do correlate. Scotty was an interesting story either way. I saw it on Death Valley days where they embellished it a little.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@voiceofraisin241 He was obviously quite a character.

[@maccforum4828]

Love your Videos!!!!!