Epic drive Northwestern Ontario Abandoned Mine ruins

[@TedClearwater]

Cool stuff you find in the bush

[@OutdoorRob]

It's amazing what's still left out there in the bush! Thanks Ted!

[@tintadawn2756]

At the 8.23 mark, I can imagine walking through that part of the adventure, on a hot August afternoon, there would be so many grasshoppers jumping and clicking about. Blueberry shrubs would be scattered about. The beetles would be doing their best impressions of electric wires humming, high up in the trees. I'm just basking in the summer thoughts on this early January morning. Thank you for the awesome tour, Rob, I just love your northern adventures.

[@OutdoorRob]

And the bugs would carry you away! LOL! They let up a little in August. Glad you enjoyed the tour, thanks!

[@steveaw5895]

Thanks for the ride along.

[@OutdoorRob]

Glad you enjoyed it Steve! It was a nice day of exploring.

[@hoseman317]

by the size of the waste rock piles, it was quite an extensive mine now filled with water. Nice video.

[@OutdoorRob]

Ya it looks like it would've been a large operation there. Would have been cool to see it when most of the stuff was still standing. Thanks Man!

[@hscoging]

The village isn't that by the railway tunnel?

[@OutdoorRob]

MacDiarmid is on the north side of the Tunnel...

[@vancemarin8022]

Ever since they built that bridge on 17 I have wanted to go over it. I might try for this summer but its a long ride !! Thanks for the tour !!

[@OutdoorRob]

Thanks Vance! It's a lot of wasted money for a bridge up here. You should get there soon before anything else happens to it. LOL! It is pretty cool at night though.

[@billdang3953]

@@OutdoorRob Until it was upgraded to 4 lanes, there were remnants of the original 1936 Highway 11/17 Nipigon River bridge visible, these were removed when the current 4 lane bridge was built.

[@OutdoorRob]

@@billdang3953 There's still a short section of the old highway east of nipigon that has an old stone wall that was built the time of the highway. Fortunately still some history there. Thanks!

[@1957Free]

Great video again. I enjoy coming along with you

[@OutdoorRob]

Thanks Man! Great to have you along for the ride!

[@nostuckmarc8682]

While you were distracted looking at the boats lol in Beardmore the little corner store that's on the main drag sells gas. And they have a really good selection of goodies and they'll make you a sandwich sometimes there's soup of the day to homemade. And where was my invite?

[@OutdoorRob]

LOL! I think you were working. Nothing even looked open in Beardmore but thanks for the info Marc!

[@offwithhishead2556]

Paint-scratchy! Thanks for the vid, man.

[@OutdoorRob]

LOL! Thanks Man!

[@derricklahaie2357]

Nice. Thanks Rob.

[@OutdoorRob]

Thanks Derrick!

[@rosevillerod]

Cool stuff Rob, thanks!

[@OutdoorRob]

Thanks Rod!

[@rheticus5198]

When I was a kid about 1960 we went to Ouimet Canyon, which is a 2 km gorge about 100 m deep, and 150 m wide. It became a park in 1972. To get to the edge we had to walk over rock that had fracture lines, and then I realized that the rubble along the bottom of the gorge at the sides was slabs of rock that had fallen, and I could be standing on one! I thought at the time that somehow had the ground had spread apart, but I came across a video by geologist Randall Carlson on Lake Nipigon on what probably happened. At the end of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago the area was under 1-2 km of ice when the energy from a meteorite impact caused ice to melt and ice dams give way. Lake Nipigon is a bowl with raised edges, and might have been formed from a meteorite, but it would have had to be a very big one because Nipigon is 200 km across which is huge for a crater, so in my strictly amateur opinion, it was likely earlier and not the impact that caused the melt. Whatever the cause, there is a lot of evidence of an abnormally high melt. Carlson explains that water moving under all that ice is at extreme pressure. So all the rock from the gorge was ripped up and flushed out into Lake Superior and not swallowed by the earth as I had imagined. Always enjoy your videos. Brings back memories.

[@OutdoorRob]

I remember Ouimet in the late 70's. Thanks for the cool story!

[@kevinwaalker]

BAHHHAAAA who says Russians don't have a sense of humor This guy is definitely one of Russia's best comedians. I have seen his comedy act many times

[@robertriddle5500]

another great video...thanks rob hope your better

[@OutdoorRob]

Thanks Robert! Feeling much better thanks!

[@keenanandrews3692]

UNDER THE GROUND

[@olivei2484]

You didnt stop at the snowman or the little tug? Most of us will never get to beardmore.

[@OutdoorRob]

Ya, thought about it but I figured I had already video'd them in another video but now that I think about it, it was quite a few years ago already. Next time I'll stop there again. Thanks Fred!

[@olivei2484]

@@OutdoorRob You did? I guess I never saw that one. We like snowmen, don't see them here too often.

[@OutdoorRob]

I can't remember if it was on my bike and if I took just photos but I think I took video...don't even know which video it would be. I'll have to stop in there next time I'm up that way. Have some adventures planned up there this summer.

[@WorldT]

when did that mill go out of operation?

[@OutdoorRob]

I'm thinking it was 1942, if I have the right mine.

[@derekmackenzie5118]

chicken? looked like a pheasant to me

[@OutdoorRob]

Ruffed Grouse up here, I call them chickens LOL!

[@denisnault8205]

Rob, where was this mine and do you know what kind of mine it was at the time? Sure is interesting.

[@OutdoorRob]

Near Beardmore, ON, not exactly sure what they mined there. Thanks Denis!

[@1957Free]

At 26 minutes in is that a red pine plantation.

[@OutdoorRob]

I believe they planted the red pines there after they logged the area.

[@keenanandrews3692]

Underground cities.They fence it off,so you don't fuk with their oxygen supply.Just search D.U.M.B.S.

[@OutdoorRob]

They could be hiding something...

[@fuzzwack1]

48-49 dodge truck..

[@OutdoorRob]

Thanks Robert!