Exploring A Remote Mine And Miner's Cabin In The Desert

Remote! This abandoned mine and miner’s cabin is WAY out in the Nevada desert. Come along with us on this adventure to see the treasures that can, fortunately, still be found hidden away in our world... Highway 50 running through Nevada is said to be “The Loneliest Road” in America. Well, to get to this abandoned mine, you have to turn off of the loneliest road and go down an even more lonely dirt road for many miles. Then, you have to turn off of that lonely dirt road onto another dirt road, that seems to be not much more than an animal trail, and go on that for several miles before finally arriving near enough to this mine to be able to walk up to it. Pretty lonely!
We are frequently amazed by the ability of the old time prospectors to locate promising mineral deposits in the most remote and inhospitable places. This mine proved to be no exception. I simply cannot imagine how the miners in the past decided to start running an adit at this site. Interestingly, they punched straight back for several hundred feet before the adit abruptly stops at a “T” junction. There was a small drift and stope on the left, but on the right (taking off at a sharp angle of 90 degrees from the adit we came in on) was another drift heading off deeper into the mountain. This drift continues for several hundred feet more before coming to a chamber where the miners created a fairly large stope and also pursued the ore down through the floor of the adit. Perhaps the bits of wood down in the small pit they created are what is left of a trestle that used to run across this spot? After making our way across the small pit, the drift meandered around until we came to a large ore chute leading up into what must be upper workings of a respectable size. In the video, you can see why I believe these may connect to the outside world. After the ore chute, the historic mine bends around some more before finally simply stopping at a rock face. I don’t know what encouraged the miners to suddenly branch off from the initial adit at the sharp right angle, but this was apparently a good call given the stopes and ore chute that indicate they took some sort of valuable mineral out of there.
The miner’s cabin did not have any type of road leading up to it. We continued hiking up the mountain above the mine in order to look for the presumed outside access to the upper workings that we saw extending up from the ore chute inside of the mine. We did not find the breach to the outside world (or the inside world depending on your perspective) that we were seeking, but the vegetation was fairly thick in the most likely areas. Forgive us, but we did not push too aggressively into some of these spots as we had no desire to be blindly thrashing our way through the thick brush only to take a tumble down a shaft or open stope.
Instead, we kept exploring up the mountain because we were enjoying the views and were curious about what might be in such an area that sees so very few humans. After hiking for a while, I noticed the remains of a very faint trail leading down a little side canyon or dry wash. I already knew that we were going to be hiking back down to the mine in the dark anyway, so I decided to follow the trail for a little ways. I soon discovered that the trail had been created by miners in the past as I came across the old miner’s cabin and the small prospect next to it. That was a real treat as, obviously, very few people know it is there and so it still had a large number of artifacts around, which allowed us to really understand what the lonely life of the miner there must have been like.
We hiked down in the dark and drove out in the dark (which wasn’t easy), but it was worth it to explore this mine and to see the forgotten miner’s cabin.
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[@colemanadamson5943]

This video is old so you may not see this but thank you. Some of us are old and some haven't the ability to go into mines and you've given us eyes to see things we like to see and do but can't. Thanks again!

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. I always see new comments (even if they are on old videos). I rarely receive notifications on comments that reply to other comments though...

[@CumminsDslPwr]

Most people would have been just rooting around in the cabin and debris, but everything you examined you treated with care and respect. Very nice.

[@tylerchristian9246]

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[@christopherkylen380]

@Tyler Christian instablaster :)

[@HassaanALal]

do not visit instablaster, both people above me are scammers.

[@keithmcfaul9204]

Exploring things like the miner's cabin in that good of shape is not boring. For me things like that are part of the fascination of the exploring and part of the history that goes with the mine. Artifacts and living conditions in remote area like that are always interesting.

[@TVRExploring]

Probably the best old miner's cabin that I have ever found...

[@kmustacal]

Miner got the gold. You got the shaft.

[@unicorntv1232]

Miners cabin. Dynamite on the cupboard shelf and a pinup girl on the wall. Boulder through the roof. What a life. So remote. But so beautiful. Love your vids. 👍💖

[@rondyechannel1399]

Unbelievable tough MEN that could go into the middle of no where and bore a hole in solid rock for miles! Just incredible danger and tough men.

[@TVRExploring]

The old timers were tough...

[@mf5531]

super cool. i like looking at the stuff. you're going at a perfect speed. thank you for a great video.

[@Tom-cy5em]

Another great video thanks so much for preserving our Mining history that mine looks like time stood still from around WW2. Thanks for taking us along. Please stay safe out there I'll post your video on my FB page for all my friends to see and enjoy.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much. We can't protect this site from time or people, but we can at least document what we find to show what was there and how much of our history is being lost. Fortunately, we enjoy doing it! I appreciate your comment and you sharing the video.

[@swnorcraft7971]

I love to explore old mines and tunnels.......Vicariously! Thank you.

[@richardrobertson1331]

Miners don't commonly leave eating utensils, but this one did in that cabin. If you ever get up there, again, I suggest you look under that large rock that crushed the back bedroom. Who knows what you might find, especially when he left a few special pieces of ore on the shelf in his kitchen. The fact that he had dynamite on another kitchen shelf tells me he lived alone. Certainly worth a trip back with a shovel, some rope & work gloves then check under that rock for a body. Great video! Stay safe and keep up the good work.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. This is a very remote one and so I don't know that we'll be getting back, but, yes, if we had more time, I would definitely like to see what is behind (or underneath) that rock... Interesting observation about the miner being alone based on the dynamite. I hadn't thought about that, but it makes sense.

[@waydeepinside]

No doubt that the Boulder happened in an instant. I’ve heard that rodent feces can be a vector of hantavirus. Most probably You are aware of this ...

[@jacksonsharp2261]

this man could literally find a metric ton of gold and be like “wow that’s pretty cool”, if i was finding those magazines and everything i would be overwhelmed by the history. great video!

[@missyd0g2]

Very much enjoyed your adventures. Thank you for taking us along.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much. I enjoy taking you along!

[@dawnsimons118]

That was one of the best explore videos I have seen . I thought I'd seen them all . Great job young man . When I was younger , I would have explored on my own . My health now prevents me from mobility and I thank you kindly for bringing me along .

[@alexpeters3548]

this is by far the best way explore a mine, it it caves in, all we have to do back up the video, to escape!

[@gingerbread6614]

No you are doing great.. I we love looking at any thing & everything. Love it all. Love your videos. Thank you.

[@mikeroberts2156]

I explored a mine in Durango Colorado in my teens it was in better shape then the one you explored. The one I was in seemed to go on for a very long time till we hit timbers on the floor. The older kids decided not to go any further because they thought the floor might have shafts going down. The mine you explored had more timbers ,ladders ,pockets and buildings. We walked in our mine till the flash lights went almost dead and had an extra flash light to get us out. We guessed we might have walked 45-60 minutes one way I'd love to go back again and explore it again.

[@TVRExploring]

That sounds like a good mine to explore!

[@highdesertexplorer123]

Not boring at all, take your time. That cabin is one of the neatest finds I have seen. Looks like you were probably the first one there in a long time.

[@georgevarnerin930]

This is the kind of thing i do for fun never thought of doing a KZbin channel. Love your work

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you!

[@chriswatts1701]

Nobody is bored, very interesting look into history.

[@cortrichards8179]

The pin up girl in the miner's cabin looked to be the top part of an old calendar. If you go back ever, look closely at the bottom of it and there will likely be a small calendar with the date that the calendar and pin up girl picture were made. Just from looking at it in the video, I can confidently date it as circa 1931 to 1939. It will be a date somewhere between that. There was some other pretty cool stuff in there and it is neat to see that it is indeed still there! That cabin must be fairly remote or a hike as most of that would unfortunately be gone otherwise. It is always so fun to run into those untouched cabins and of course, mines. You never know what you're going to find. Skeletons? Treasure? Probably not, but that's what makes exploring so fun. And actually, finding an old, untouched miner's cabin and mine is a treasure in its own right. Thanks as always for sharing!

[@johndean4912]

Thank you for sharing your exploration travels. John

[@fernandochavez4312]

Thanks for your video. I’ve seen this mine in other people’s videos. Things seemed to have been moved around a bit. Maybe to protect them from weather. Thanks again.👍

[@carllarsen6234]

Keep up the good work, I love exploring with you..

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you for coming with me!

[@trippingonrocks1165]

It really is mind blowing how much work goes into these. I'm at my limit for Concussions and hate crawly things so being able to venture in these mines through these videos is awesome, new sub here, thank you. (the blue bucket behind the post freaked me out at first) 😅👍🏼🇳🇿

[@conniepritchardreinhardt9978]

Way cool. Thanks for sharing!!!!

[@jasong1489]

Awesome videos. I always wanted to explore abandon mines. Thanks for the tours.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much. I'm glad to be able to share the experience with you...

[@timothymilam732]

You always have excellent storyline to go along with the adventure inside the better mines y'all vist, and even more of the lesser mines have a better story than the mines may warrant. Still you did the research on your objective, and you share it all the same regardless of what was there wasn't all that spectacular. I commend you for your efforts, and the excellent job you do with your narrative both in writing, and as well with your spoken commentary as you go along the way. You pretty much dedicated your life's work into that which is obviously something that you hold dearly. As I was always taught, and as I to my son's. If you're doing something that you truly enjoy doing, then you'll never want a day in your life, and the money isn't the main reason you do what you do. Glad that you are fortunate enough to have found that special job that allows you to actually explore the world around you doing what you do. As a added bonus, you've been fortunate enough to travel around the world to many different places as well. Young man you are very fortunate to have this opportunity that very few actually have the opportunity as well as the pleasure of being able to do. Have you ever thought of doing a long series of the best of video where you might intertwine some of the best of the mines you've visited. As the one about the 16 to 1 is a prime example of what I speak of here, and there's been many more that come to mind that you've shared over the years I've followed you're travels across the world zig zagging here n there. You really should consider this ideal, and possibly bring it to reality. As I'm sure that there's many that follow who haven't a clue as to some of the wonders you're seen. Just thinking outloud, and I tend to think outside the normal ways of most people. Yet this is a natural process for you to follow in the slow times, but I also realize you rarely slow down much do . Anyway thank you for all the wonderful things I would have never seen had it not been for you sharing it with us all. Take care, and may Peace n Harmony always be with you. Have a Great Day, and may Tomorrow be even Better than today. PS I tried to look up how to date when different designs of their cans, and what years they were sold. In hopes of discovering the years that mine camp was in use, to possibly give y'all a rough estimate of the time frame. I don't know what if anything you can discover from the state since it's obvious that parts of the mine have been visited by engineers in not too distant past, because of the marker paint, and the support system used to support the back of the mine with the bolts, and chian link fencing material. Surely that would have been recorded in the proper agency that overseas the mining activity, and they had to have found it listed somewhere in order to discover the location. Are do they use a computer program that scans Google Earth for the tale tell signs of waste rock spilling down the sides of mountains like so many mine explores have found to be a useful tool for this very purpose I wonder. Perhaps you know that answer as I'm not familiar with all the methods used to do what you do.

[@RB-nr1um]

My weekly dose of awesome mine stuff! Thanks!

[@TVRExploring]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the comment and kind words.

[@ronniecardy]

I love the mines too but love the cabins just a little bit more. Thanks so much for all you do

[@TVRExploring]

I always try to include the cabins and other stuff outside the mines in the videos as well because often, at least in my opinion, that stuff is just as interesting. We're headed out tomorrow to where there is supposed to be a good miner's cabin. I hope it is still there.

[@Texasecede]

That was a cool explore!

[@jimlowe6386]

Awesome find and video!!! Thank You!!

[@jerrysmith9315]

This is beyond me. Working in those holes in the old days, even now for that matter. The thought of a cave in between me and fresh air, blue sky, clouds etc, would work on me , and I would rush out. Now the cabin, thats interesting. Metal detectors are made for me and others that can not go below. Looks rarely visited ..... Thanks for the video.

[@Lalunabreeze]

Ty another great video. Messy and pretty big. Goes way up. Like your thought process. Oh wow, the cabin is 😎. U should take the bucket.

[@TVRExploring]

That cabin was awesome, huh?

[@leesherman100]

Gotta love the buried U.S. Army cot. An old friend so many years ago.

[@bigsluice1440]

Any GOLD is great GOLD! Another GREAT vid dude!

[@leesherman100]

Hiking out there under a full moon is quite a thrill.

[@jimf1964]

Wow, I could have explored that cabin all day. It's just so cool to be seeing and handling stuff that someone was using so long ago. To imagine their life, what they were doing. Really neat. You must have taken a couple souvenirs? That lamp oil can would be worth a few bucks for sure.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, it is very cool seeing all of that... And, no, we never take anything. Far too many "collectors" have looted these historic sites and so that now finding a treasure like this is incredibly rare. It used to be commonplace.

[@fredsecco6305]

I have been to old homesteads in O R. Interesting what you find. I never remove anything.

[@erinbricker-urbanhistorian5803]

Awesome little cabin... love it! Nice video TVR Exploring :)

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it... Yes, that old miner's cabin was great. I wish we could find miner's cabins that well preserved more often.

[@robertdiehl1281]

Just saying, that mine for me was quite a ways back into the mountain. I would go in, not sure I would enjoy it lol. Guts my friend.

[@larrykramer6057]

My controlled claustrophobia was getting problematic so I was glad when you came to the end of the mine. That fractured rock would have sent me out of there at a run. Thanks for exploring because I am not going underground except to dig a hole for an evergreen bush at my house.

[@nefariumxxx]

Nice explore and cabin. Great camera work as usual. Don't worry about boring us, we love it.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. I had a group in the past that would complain loudly if I spent too much time on buildings and equipment at the mines and so I suppose I have been trying to balance things out. It seems that most everybody wishes I had spent more time on the cabin though and so I'll go back to the way I was doing it before.

[@nefariumxxx]

I don't watch TV because youtube content like yours is way more interesting. I woulda been carefully digging through the debris inside that cabin. Buried relics! :)

[@TVRExploring]

I haven't had a TV in years and I don't miss it a bit! Like you said, there is so much great stuff on KZbin... Yes, I wish we had spent more time looking around that cabin. Another factor that was rushing us is that it was getting dark quickly and we still had a long hike out of there. I guess that's a metaphor for life though. Finding the good stuff just as it is getting dark...

[@bluepacificsurf]

You have to respect these miners. Anyone who could live through a northern Nevada winter in that flimsy cabin had to be tough people.

[@TVRExploring]

You're right about that!

[@bryonhills6172]

Love exploring Nevada. I have spent more time on dirt than pavement in that state

[@TVRExploring]

Haha, yes, that's probably true for me as well...

[@NUGGETSHOOTER]

Really enjoyed the tour, thanks and subbed.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you for the comment and sub!

[@takingu2skoo]

Wow thats so cool

[@dezhead3529]

Great video of a cabin I've been in a lot of Mines seen a lot of cabins but not as much stuff as was in that cabin

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. Yes, we've come across more modern cabins that have a fair amount of interesting stuff, but never a historic cabin with so many great mining relics as this one.

[@nickmad887]

thank you

[@danielthomas3333]

Reminds me of lead mines that we explored in my childhood.

[@raydunakin]

That cabin is an incredible find! Looks like no one's been there since the day it was abandoned, which is really rare. BTW, the canvas indicates that it was originally a tent. Back in those days the miners put up wood-framed tents to make a quick shelter. Then later, if it looked like they'd be there long enough, they would add boards (or sometimes corrugated metal) to the outside to turn it into a cabin. When they did this, they usually left the canvas in place.

[@mobiltec]

OH we could have stayed there another hour. There was a lot more to look at and I would have found my way into that pantry or what ever that back room was. If nothing else, camera on a stick???? Great find guys. Loved it. Go back and hit it again.

[@christhornley1664]

Great video, that old miners cabin was so cool with all the artefacts, a real window into the past. It's just been sitting there slowly decaying, probably untouched for over seventy years. It must have been a hard lonely life for the old miners. Personally I would have enjoyed the isolation at least, I love to be far from the madding crowd and all the crap, surrounded by desolation and emptiness.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. Yes, because this one was in such a remote location, it has not been stripped and vandalized. So, it is possible to have a really good understanding of how the miner lived. I'm 100% with you on the crowds and the rest of it... I'll do everything I can to avoid crowds and interference.

[@hughpenn]

Surely these old mines were once registered. To know some history of each mine would been equally, if not more interesting, than exploration of them! Like what were they mining for and successful they were?

[@426superbee4]

Quarts every where! sure signs of gold one time

[@patdenney7046]

how cool is that good job guys!

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. This was a fun one.

[@jerrywiest4783]

This is the OLD Nevada that I grew up in.....Northern Nevada!

[@robertrude3573]

Cherry Creek

[@jd-ku3iw]

thank you. That was cool

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. Glad you liked it...

[@577buttfan]

Cool one bro loved it!!

[@TVRExploring]

It's an awesome site.

[@DesertDogExploring]

Wow. Just wow.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, this was a nice one...

[@slingnink13]

too awesome

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, this was a fun one. Thank you.

[@nilsholgerson4958]

Excellent video

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much.

[@nomadiavan6560]

My heart races the deeper he goes into the tunnels. I would panic and run out. I can barely watch the video.

[@swnorcraft7971]

I start watching knowing he made it out......

[@garyanddoris6022]

Definitely goes a pretty good ways back in there ...

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, it does...

[@paigelee6321]

Thank you 😊 interesting

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you, Paige.

[@fuchsia5899]

the ones with rails and ore carts are always the best

[@TVRExploring]

My favorites!

[@joeodonnell2594]

great video

[@johnnyreb8030]

Good place to get your Heisnburg on!!

[@jukeboxhero1649]

I used to drive up and down 50! I miss Nevada. What a place.

[@TVRExploring]

I love 50! And Nevada! It is indeed quite a place...

[@giuliom8520]

Growing up there, I never appreciated it, but now I miss it.

[@TVRExploring]

I understand completely. I feel the same way about where I grew up.

[@RTLichable]

Fascinating find! Surprised he didn't check out the ore sample on the shelf in the miner's cabin, it looked like it may be highgrade.

[@TVRExploring]

Too much to take in at once! Ha, you overlook things, you know?

[@donhammer186]

TVR; @ 12:45 I don't think that's quarts. Looks more like calcite. The vertical shaft you came to @ 8:35 was probably a ventilation shaft. Judging from the old magazines the Pin Up girl and other artifacts, "early" 1900's. Some of the most interesting finds I have made at abandoned homesteads and ghost towns have been in the old dump sights. Amazing what you can learn about people by what they throw away! The presence of electrical wire and flexible pipe in the mine suggest a generator, this was no fly by night outfit!

[@TVRExploring]

There is some amazing stuff to be found in the old trash dumps... This is an older mine, but I think that someone has come in more recently and done some work.

[@mikekeller2885]

Interesting, use to explore the back roads of Death Valley usually in April & May. Found many mines and cabins and ran into a former member of the Manson clan in the Paniment Mtns. Took many pictures, no video.

[@hopeofnope8553]

Mike Keller do you have the locations on a map or coordinates?

[@mikekeller2885]

@@hopeofnope8553 received your inquiry about location. Will have to through photos and such to narrow it down. I do recall it was in the Panamint Mtns near the town of Independence, CA Will see if I can get you more specific info.

[@remytv]

I'm always amazed that these places still look like this after like 100 years, here everything would get moldy and just collapse and desintegrate unto itself a lot earlier.

[@WhitesElectronics1950]

Awesome video

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much.

[@donaldpowers5557]

rib it rib it rib it rib it rivit...add that stuff it to the museum mine you mentioned, and the ore bucket

[@TVRExploring]

Many things at that old miner's cabin could - or should - be in a museum!

[@canadianbacon2693]

cool vid!

[@bhaskarparam9711]

Wow wow wow

[@do4267]

That bed frame up the canyon a bit may of been a grave marker. Ive read they were occasionally used as such.

[@snyderraymond]

U guys do great solid videos I'm amazed u front have more subscribers keep up the great work guys

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much. We'll keep making the videos and hopefully the subscribers will come with time.

[@thomasball3658]

I'm officially addicted to this channel.

[@benjaminbarr3503]

I have been enjoying your videos for the past two days. I do some occasional urban exploration of old steel mills here in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and a good deal of hiking as well. I was fascinated to see, at the end of this video, the box of rivets made by the Townsend Company in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. I grew up not far at all from New Brighton, and I have fished the "Townsend Dam" many times, where the old mill would have stood. Now there is a small hydroelectric power station there, and little else. Amazing to see that something manufactured there, possibly, made its way to the desert of Nevada! Keep the videos coming! If you'd like, I can send along a picture or two of what the area looks like now.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, I'd love to see pictures. Thank you. My email is [e-mail].

[@benjaminbarr3503]

@@TVRExploring When I am up that way again I'll take a picture or two of what it looks like now. I was able to find an interesting article on the history of the Townsend Company, for your viewers who "geek out" about that sort of thing (like I apparently have). Also, when I shared the interesting link with my father, he informed me that my own great-grandfather had worked for a time at the Townsend Plant. They were, according to the article, one of the largest producers of rivets in the country (or the world...I forget) for a time. Sad, how such industries have collapsed and vanished. www.timesonline.com/c11ba000-68c2-11e7-9505-4b03090fa0cf.html

[@thegoldendog7991]

This is how movies start. Guy explores old mine, gets trapped and has to chew his arm off to escape.

[@jukeboxhero1649]

Or has to chew his own pecker off! Dont ask him how it happened!

[@1TylerM]

Ad in the literature at 15:50 matches text from a 1938 radio guide "Radio Guide • Week Ending February 5, 1938" available on archive.org

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

12:35 There's some mines by Goodsprings, CA that had A LOT of quartz in them. The waste rock had quite a lot of quartz in it. A lot of these mines apparently had silver, gold, lead and copper in them, in varying proportions.

[@TVRExploring]

Yeah, I'm more used to seeing quartz in California than Nevada...

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

At this point in time, the Dynamite looks more like semi-solid Nitroglycerin.

[@diggingarizona8592]

@17:29 there's a date on the dynamite box looks like Oct 15 1927. judging from the woman in the magazine that looks like 30s Style dress.

[@TVRExploring]

You have sharp eyes! I completely missed that... Like you said, that date seems to jive with the rest of the gear in there (such as the magazine). I'd love to have seen that place 75 years ago.

[@jeffreycollins7297]

Could have also just flipped one or two more pages of the magazine and figured it out.

[@Scott-ex2rm]

It keeps going

[@curtisburnett6384]

New sub. Great work

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much.

[@noway05guinness61]

Great video. Earned a sub. Take a reel of pink twine with you next time. Hate to see you on the news cause you got lost. Take a rock hound with you too. Love hearing about the different kinds of rocks and minerals we were seeing.

[@TVRExploring]

Thanks for the sub!

[@69kevroletfastback33]

I know you cant please everyone! Your videos and effort are very good! Take it from someone who has been exploring old ghost towns and mines for over 30 years. You missed the mother load in and around that cabin. That one bottle was hand blown (in a mold) some time before bottle machines which came in around 1903. I estimate that cabin/mine started before 1990. To find an old unbroken bottle like that just lying on the surface tells me there is a jack pot of antiques in and around that cabin! Personally I would have spent days digging and searching around that entire cabin and area! That is how much of a treasure it was!

[@sarahstrong7174]

Dodgy place to live, that hazardous cabin. Thankyou for showing us.

[@ProspectorJosh]

Wow, that boulder was a killer! My favorite part was at 19:40

[@TVRExploring]

Haha, it's hard to throw sex appeal into mining videos, but we do what we can! Yes, it would have been something to see that boulder come smashing down the mountainside into the poor cabin... An occupational hazard, I suppose.

[@ADITADDICTS]

Prospector Josh Eyes off my girl man!

[@nwesterbeckmaster]

dang i was hoping you'd be able to climb through and check out the very back of that cabin that was blocked off by the boulder. oh well, still a great video.

[@TVRExploring]

Yeah, I was hoping to get back there too, but I didn't see a way to do it without breaking stuff.

[@chrisackerley1842]

Justin - at 17:29 note the 1927 date on the dynamite box. I think it safe to say that dates this mine.

[@AStanton1966]

I was thinking: Can you say, "The Hills Have Eyes?"

[@camillefulton7709]

LOVE TO TRAVEL WITH YOU IN THERE, BUT ALL I WANT IS FOR YOU TO REMEMBER THE WAY YOU CAME IN, BE GLAD WHENEVER UR OUT. SAFE TRAVEL. CAMILLE AUST.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you, Camille.

[@newellbate]

Real good

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you.

[@supertrucker1356]

This sounds like fun, but i believe i would eventually panic being by myself down there.

[@mrcr9102]

awesome but i really wanted to see more of the stuff in the cabin very cool. Thanks

[@TVRExploring]

A very vocal group in the past would complain if I spent too much time filming buildings or equipment rather than the underground experience. So, I suppose I have been trying to find the right balance between aboveground and underground. You're definitely not the only one to say that I should have spent more time with the cabin though. So, I think I'll go with my natural instincts on that in the future rather than trying to balance it out.

[@DFDuck55]

I enjoy exploring miner cabins as much as I do the mines themselves. The cabins give a better glimpse into the miners themselves.

[@TVRExploring]

I am 100% into that as well. I love it when there is a bunkhouse or miner's cabin so we can get a better sense of how the miners lived. The same goes for equipment sheds and workshops so that we can get a better sense of how they worked.

[@ADITADDICTS]

Duck Landes Same here! It's a true glimpse into how they lived day to day in some really remote areas, alone. Also without internet! Lol

[@DFDuck55]

ADIT ADDICTS: I used to go out in the wilderness for three to four months dredging gold. Some of the others would do town trips once or twice a month to pick up supplies, but I would just stay out there. In the evenings I would write computer code by lantern light. When dredge season was finished and I went home I would transfer the code from paper to computer. The solitude was one of my favorite parts of being out there.

[@wooderdsaunders6801]

Love your vids. Do you have educatiin in minerals and geologey? What were they mining? What protections do you use? Are you a history mojor?

[@paulhickman278]

Great video as always. The powder box in the cabin had the date Oct 15 1927 on it......

[@TVRExploring]

I missed that! So, thank you very much for mentioning it. Often, when I'm at a mine site like that, I am so busy filming and also looking out for snakes or other cool things to film that I miss details that sharp-eyed viewers such as yourself pick out. I guessed that miner's cabin and mine were from the early 1930s, but it seems they may be even older than that.

[@paulhickman278]

TVR Exploring No problem. Thanks for helping out us armchair explorers and giving us our fix!

[@paulhickman278]

TVR Exploring No problem. Thanks for helping out us armchair explorers and giving us our fix!

[@TVRExploring]

Haha, happy to be your supplier!