Secret Restored Abandoned Mining Camp

[@skyarts100]

Thank you for your kind words regarding “The Champion Mine”. I was part of the group that spent hours upon hours helping restore the camp. I helped paint multiple cabins. The upper outhouse is pink because we had enough white paint for half the building and enough red for the other half as, well, shit happens and it ended up pink. My friends father welded several of the stoves and hiked them up. My friends mother made the curtains. The shower works (1990’s at least) great. Best view of any shower any ware. We also put in the water system. Reroofed the wood building with the metal sheets because the wood shingles were rotten and rain was getting in causing damage. The wood kitchen stove was oil but got converted to wood burning and works well. I’ve baked cakes in it. The back room was the cooler. The old dump is downhill from the shower about 100 yards and fun to poke around in. We’ve found lots of stuff for the museums in it. There is also one more building north of camp. It’s the wood house building. If anyone goes there be kind and keep it nice. Happy hiking.

[@lunakat5763]

You and your friends did an amazing job I can't believe you did all that work. It must have been very hard getting all the materials up there. I hope all that visit keep the camp pristine. What a beautiful place to vacation bless you and your friends. Watching this made me feel very happy that there are people like you out there. 😊

[@bethwiegand2957]

You be the best!!!

[@chrisblack8390]

I can't believe how nice that camp is. Thank you! There's not very many good people like you guys. Wish i could go there an see the museum but I'm to old to make the hike.

[@jamieronan4147]

Thanks, I carried a lot of stuff up there... last time I was there was 2018, funny thing is, not much has changed since the 90s... and yes.. so much pink paint...

[@pattymcdarment1395]

THANK YOU, I live on the other side of the Mountain.

[@ryryy1980]

You honestly never bore me. Long videos don't bother me one bit.

[@williamkeith8944]

I was there in the early 1980's. It's good to see the rocks I lined some of the trails are still there! Yay! I stayed in what you called the bachelor cabin. I was there 10 days and also used that outdoor shower. I packed in my food and welcomed another group that came the day before I left. We had a great evening visiting and I showed them around after breakfast before I left. We had fresh coffee and pancakes! Life Is good...

[@michaelalan6840]

"Mining is everyone's future." As is preservation of clean water, the next priceless resource, as our numbers grow... Thanks lovely Sarah, for bringing us to the wilderness vacation camp for all...❣

[@stevecastle1730]

This is one of the coolest places I've ever seen. It's so sweet that it's been kept so well maintained.

[@InTheirImage7]

If there's ever a Zombie Apocalypse, I want Wonder Hussy on my side! You'd know all the good places!

[@mickkae3704]

Amazing place .. Love and Light to those that care for it !!!

[@kevincremin7413]

Mick Kae f

[@Katseye102]

It is wonderful to see that the people that have visited respected the area and left it maybe a little bit better than when they came there......WOW!!! As you know so many just don't care and think......."someone will pick it up......clean it out.......etc" great place WH!!!!

[@pauladkins9829]

Out of all of wonderhussy videos this is the most epic site absolutely breathtaking always have respect for such sites and all this is the number one video and the Parliament cabin

[@bravofighter]

…back when Sarah thought long videos would bore us…lol…we live for this stuff!

[@MrGaryRoberton]

The hard thing to believe is that it still exists, and that it has been preserved by the people alone. Thank you for fulfilling my need for adventure. The views out of those cabins are priceless, well done, please film again next time you go there O.K.? Doctor Hussy is on the case!

[@lauchieburton5592]

Wonderful video Sarah really enjoyed it, that was quite a hike getting there it's hard to imagine getting everything up there Those volunteers did a great job fixing it up

[@candysantillo3325]

Outstanding! Not just the beyond ,beautiful place but the thought behind what it stands for and your presentation of it all.You showed me something that I’d otherwise never known about.Much,deep appreciation 💝

[@539Productions]

That would be an amazing way to vacation! Bet the stars are amazing out there at night!

[@ekummel]

I find it funny when she says "this wouldn't take much to fix this up", and then is amazed at the stuff that was hiked up to these cabins and wonders how they did it!

[@MsNevadakid]

DEF. ONE OF MY LIST PLACES TO VISIT! VERY KOOL! THANKS AGAIN.. ...HAPPY TRAILS...

[@chrisblack8390]

That was the greatest place ever! Wonder why i never saw that one before. Thanks i think you should go back again and take more time in the museum.

[@ronelazy]

If there more woman around like Sarah the world would be a better place great videos she make love her.

[@plombme]

Another great adventure with the one and only "Wonder Hussy".....She's easy on the eyes, coupled with brains and personality.....Be safe Sarah Jane!

[@jerettashewmaker5021]

Would love to visit there.Beautiful scenery !

[@BIGBADWOOD]

Wow lucky you to be able to visit this great Mining Camp ... Always great videos ... be safe !

[@denaredford6701]

I love how you sling around the word fricking , Sound so fun !

[@anitamitchell3452]

I'd love to go up for a week ... do chores and just explore. Great place WH ... thanks for taking us along.

[@JJF10101957]

What a great place! It's like something from another time, and a different culture?! Outstanding.

[@tallat8888]

That looks like a great place to camp and explore, thank you for sharing your adventures👍🏻🇺🇸

[@johncarpenter987]

WH, great video. What amazing people that did all that work so others could enjoy the experience. Would love to know more about the two people that did it. I'm surprised you didn't comment on the fact that they left reading glasses behind. I have never seen cabins so well stocked that were not businesses. It is hard to imagine how many trips it took to bring it all up. You've done some hard hikes; but, can you imagine bringing up all those tools and screws, nails and bolts are heavy in bulk.

[@rogerwould8467]

You are the ultimate frontier history hunter/Miss exploration U.S.A

[@lindarainey5759]

Your videos are NEVER boring! A show on TV lasts 30-60 minutes and your videos are MUCH better than the junk they air nowadays. Keep it up! Thanks!!

[@SCSlimBoiseID]

Indeed they are - and 99.99% commercial-free!

[@bravofighter]

Preach it, Sister!!!

[@donyother7329]

Love the historical illustration Wonderhuzzley, keep up the stellar work! Regards, Vundahussman.

[@jeffpalmer5502]

Holy Moley! Great video ! Huge effort over the years .

[@dalebelseth3058]

The little museum was very neato

[@desertrose9499]

Love your videos. Love exploring via your videos. Haven't been out to the desert since 2020.

[@2quintly]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your videos are absolutely addicting. I find myself waiting on the edge for your next video. Just look at all the hits each one gets, and it's only been out for a couple of days. I've asked myself just what is it that Wonder Hussy has that intrigues us so, so much. I continue to ponder - to come up with a fitting explanation.

[@mrjoesmith5930]

One of your best videos yet, maybe one day I'll get there. Apparently, at one time, a geocache was up there.

[@jumpingjeffflash9946]

I think if I ever left Mass. i'd move to Colorado, so beautiful.

[@PRTEVYBMW]

GREAT vid:) And some Ballsy 4-Wheel driving..! Cheers to you W.H.

[@reinhardbrodesser463]

One of your best videos yet! thank you.

[@michaelh465]

Very cool place. Thanks for bringing us along!

[@theresacaple6790]

Thanks for sharing- I came across your videos by a wonderful man at the hospital who was watching your videos and told me about all ya do- thank you ...these are great and I’m jazzed again can’t wait to see some in person:)

[@gordbaker896]

Just a super trip!!!. I hope you didn't have to back out! Thought you were going to Roll the TRW! Never say 'whoa' in a bad spot. You are a fearless driver. That timbered building with the long trays was for storing and examining Core Samples after they did exploration drilling. Cores are about 1.25" in Diameter and come out in long lengths from a hollow drill bit. They either sent them to 'head office' or they crushed them and panned the remains. 1oz. per ton is a great gold mine.

[@bettykuykendall2083]

AWESOME BLOSSOM ⚘ I have Sqaw Tea growing wild on my property. It's also called, Mormon or cowboy tea. It helps a variety of ailments. I love this area you're in.

[@raykemry954]

What a great place to still have standing and usable. Shows the past so well.most of the stuff was more than likely air lifted in with helicopters back during the war time.

[@johnhenryholiday4964]

Thats pretty amazing as a volunteer cabin.... its quite nice.... Doc

[@Sewspcl]

Wonderful video Sarah!!

[@Br4nd0m98]

Hey, Wonderhussy, you should go and explore the Mojave Desert towns of Daggett, Yermo, and Newberry Springs sometime! Yermo is off the I-15, while Newberry Springs and Daggett are off the I-40, and they're all near Barstow. It would be awesome if you ever happen to go out that way and explore those towns sometime!

[@Lilybellsangel]

So Enjoyed Your Video!!Thank-You For sharing!!

[@richardstump4582]

Wow! Very Nice!!

[@angelacoleman8426]

I just found wonderhussy adventures. I really like this channel. Other explorers try to hard. The lady is pretty cool.

[@robertwolff873]

AMAZING THANK YOU HUSS 😊 🙏

[@Mastema_007]

I've never seen a place like that before, really cool that folks can volunteer and hangout

[@hollywoodgraham4046]

Thanks Wandering Wonder this was a very refreshing place to see. Proves there are some people left who are givers and not takers. I would have liked to have seen evidence of the mining activity. Hollywood Graham

[@georgebraddy7161]

Be sure not to miss the fish lake valley hot well north of dyer Nv. real nice soak plus the road continues over silver peak via coyote hole pass . how can you not love that? (amazing stone cabin ) the amazing silverpeak swimming pool, and plus the road to alkali is now paved all the way to 95 . Just missed you Oct before last at the saline valley , again at the Bundy 's riverside ranch and then Tecopa , let me know if you want to see diana's punchbowl spenser's howard's and bog's sometime denio is as out there as you can get .

[@BluesBadTom]

Thumbs up and have a good weekend also.

[@solohoh]

Terrific video, thanks.

[@joebowman5513]

Love and respect what you do. Really cool! I've gotta go try and check some of these places out myself. I live in Tulsa with sinus issues....I think I'd be better off out west. And I'm retired 😀

[@RalphGuest]

The Jeffrey Mine, aka the Champion Spark Plug Mine, 1919-1945, mined Andalusite, a compound used in insulators of spark plugs, hence the name and big banner in the museum

[@DrChem-wx1uc]

Nice to see a cool place off the beaten path! Good use of the 4x4 rig - thanks for another good one! Good to see your safe with all the madness that went on in LV.

[@davidkuhn8946]

Be great if you could put together a video of short clips of all the adventures you have been on. That would be a good watch

[@emanuelusa63]

One of my favorite videos! Great job, would be nice to see a revisit one day!

[@Gryphonisle]

Another incredible find, so wonderfully presented. I found a website about this place. I understand now why you’re so scant on details. I was envisioning mere vandalism, which can be costly to fix, but people have burned down some of the cabins as well. So pathetic, especially where folks are working so hard to preserve it for free public access

[@eringuthrie7393]

Love your videos Hussy! You're awesome!

[@Tom-cy5em]

Cool video what a special place very well taking care of thanks for sharing.

[@mrdayyumyum3712]

Thanks for the tour of the Black Eagle camp at the Jeffery mine on White mountain above the White mountain Ranch in the Chalfant Valley just off highway 6. You are a very good narrator and thanks for keeping your clothes on. lol....

[@MrAllanwinks]

Wow that's a really interesting place! and great driving.

[@dalekennedy3489]

Another excellent video

[@LC-gj2bj]

I did not realise how beutifule the natural environment was in America, stunning scenery!

[@theninja001]

You really should hike up,the mountain to the actual mine, it is so sick! There are passages that go through the mountain and then open up to crazy views of the camp and valley below

[@mita729able]

Amazing way to camp...bring enough supplies for yourself and to leave for the next person. I love it!

[@johnc.wunscheljr2873]

Great video Hussy, I am one hell of a craftsman / Jack of all trades. How about you& me go spend a week up there fixing the place up?? I will bring the doobies and you bring the wine . I bet we would have one hell of a time🤠 J >-W->

[@larafan70]

I remember when my parents and me and my brother and sister used to camp out. They had a Coleman propane stove just like you found, and they still have it! It was even that shade of green!

[@TenRingGaming]

I know where that is! It's amazing what they've done to the place. I have that same Eastern Sierra poster on my cubicle wall at work. Gotta love the Owens Valley!

[@sardave]

sweet find.... what a great escape

[@bryanwhat2268]

wow that was a cool place so clean you dont see that anymore usually its trashed

[@kariweohr7993]

When you go up and down steps, stay to the outsides where they are stronger.

[@johnwilliams640]

I sure would love to hangout with you. Very good videos.

[@kylehowe6706]

Looking good nice mountains

[@kathyberland7888]

Yah! I love your channel and new videos!

[@poodlenme]

Very nice video!

[@mills5519]

That log structure was a Dynamite and Explosive Bunker

[@CharlesMSmillie]

Hi Sarah! What a cool vid! I hope I find these places too.

[@timwoods1476]

I Love You, Keep ON. Tim

[@markduncan6690]

I always "admire" the people who knock holes in walls because they have nothing better to do!!

[@bethwiegand2957]

No...noooooo...! You f'ing rock!!! Love your casts.

[@willbarko1439]

Don’t forgot about the Mules of bishop packing supplies all over the back Country

[@InTheirImage7]

Wow these cabins are just awesome! I love that everyone has taken such good care of them and have appreciated them. It's a great thing, to be honest, that they aren't oh so very accessible.

[@pakerman3d]

What a find!

[@donrowe8022]

Hey, nice ox bone skull bracelet 👍

[@scottt3407]

That IS a root cellar , it has drying racks, really pretty reccent constrution ( Newer logs in the back wall )

[@danwhiteman2529]

Beautiful View!

[@skeetermcswagger0U812]

Well I can't believe how many videos you make of all these cool places and a lot of them I've actually been to before... and I can't get over that sugar skull bracelet you have. I don't know how long you've been wearing it but that is super cool!!!! 🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃

[@deanperry4274]

GRANDPA took me up there when I was a little kid visiting him when he lived in BISHOP.

[@anna-lisagirling7424]

I looked andalusite up on Wikipedia and it is an aluminosilicate used in making furnaces and kilns. I can't imagine how the company behind this mining operation could have made much money on it, though. That might account for why those cabinet were in very good condition when it was abandoned? Wonderful video and thanks for donating your efforts to get there and back for the rest of us!

[@doug6885]

It used to be used in making spark plugs. Millions and millions of spark plugs.

[@larryhutton8776]

Very nice

[@randomcoyote8807]

I wonder if that "log bunker" with the reinforced construction and newly-added timber was the original mine entrance... now sealed off for safety purposes. I'm not a mine engineer by any stretch, but that'd be my uneducated guess.

[@denniswillis2639]

The bunker is likely the powder magazine. The wooden trays are for diamond drill cores....

[@TheAdventuresofMrMrsB]

Liked this place. Have seen several of your videos with Volunteer cabins. Volunteers for what?

[@patb9375]

Volunteer to care for the place.

[@nunnaurbiznez8815]

Wish I could get there!

[@poothead7327]

very cool place

[@rogersmith7396]

There is an upper camp that has interesting buildings and tunnels.

[@lethahobbs8134]

i like the video you need to do a live stream at a abandoned place