We Hiked To The Butte Saddle Mine For You

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@charlesbritzman501 Ай бұрын

It’s amazing how much work and sweat some people will put themselves through just for a beautiful, and privileged, view, let alone for gold.

@snydedon9636 Ай бұрын

Thanks for taking me along on this and all your videos. I’m disabled and could never see what I get to through your videos. I have to admit even without my limitations I still probably wouldn’t see this stuff. Thanks for sharing your videos. Don

@markhooper5824 Ай бұрын

Fantastic scenery. Wow👍

@myrrhavm Ай бұрын

Once was a day I could do that . Today I struggle to maintain my small yard after 45 years of body breaking work. Thanks for doing that hard work for me and bringing a camera. Glad you can make a living doing that or at least I hope you are. Save your money and that includes the penny’s.

@BobKernow Ай бұрын

Spectacular views, truly breathtaking! Pity about the adits, but the scenery is a great consolation reward.

@williamwintemberg Ай бұрын

As you said, the views alone made the hike worth it. Although I have never seen anything like this with my own eyes, I absolutely agree. Thanks Justin!

@davidsnider1703 Ай бұрын

Beautiful sites, thanks for going

@grizzleypeak Ай бұрын

If you follow the flume line up canyon there was an original section of perfectly preserved wooden flume that goes through a tunnel maybe a few hundred feet long. Unfortunately in the early 2000's, some kids were smoking weed in the tunnel and set the wood on fire. (Supposedly on accident.) The wind ripped through the tunnel and flames were shooting out like a jet engine from what I was told I'm glad I got to see it when it was still there in the late '90's...

@aaronkeeth651 Ай бұрын

how true you are. i remember the day well ,i even know the culprits. they have atoned for their misgivings

@TVRExploring Ай бұрын

That's really cool that that was still there as recently as the early 2000s... I would love to have seen that. I might have to hike out just to see the tunnel one of these days.

@johngiromini5745 Ай бұрын

My oh my, my lungs are hurting from here. Beautiful country.

@schizrade Ай бұрын

When I was a kid I hiked the old flume that delivered water from Salmon Creek to the Sierra Buttes Mine. There was still plenty of wooden flume sections at the time.

@TVRExploring Ай бұрын

That's really cool. Was there much of the Sierra Buttes Mine left to see when you were still a kid? We've hiked the entire ravine and, I believe, we have found most of the workings and what is left of the infrastructure. The # 9 portal eludes us, but we're pretty sure that we know the general location.

@paulcooper9135 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

@olspanner Ай бұрын

Well thank you all for that, the view are stunning.

@wilhelmromanji Ай бұрын

Epic view and a good hike up :)❤

@desertriderukverun1002 Ай бұрын

Reminds me of hiking the sierras as a kid. Brings back the high altitude shortness of breath, the smell of the sugar pines, manzanita scratching your legs and the dry dusty heat.

@frankgaletzka8477 Ай бұрын

What a view . Nature is absolut great . Okay no open Portals but very good to see Thank you for the Video Yours Frank Galetzka

@krockpotbroccoli65 Ай бұрын

Spectacular scenery!

@brentkeller3826 Ай бұрын

The Pahaquarra copper mine in NJ had a 300 foot adit once. The army corps of engineers dynamited the first 150 foot of it. The results looks like the adits you found here.

@AUMINER1 Ай бұрын

I hiked up there a few weeks ago, brutal switchbacks up the first hills. All of the old foundations and miners tent rocks stacking is impressive.

@karlfonner7589 Ай бұрын

Is that the Sierra Buttes?

@davegillman6296 Ай бұрын

That is stunningly beautiful

@jayalderman5801 Ай бұрын

I just got back from a week long prospecting trip in that area. Never found an open adit. Ran into a local and was told the forest service has blasted most of them shut. Who knows if that's the case.... wouldn't put it past the forest service to do that.

@TVRExploring Ай бұрын

Yes, the Forest Service absolutely does that. A formal mine closure program is in place under the umbrella of the Abandoned Mine Lands bureaucracy. They are steadily closing all of the mines in the western United States.

@leighsayers2628 Ай бұрын

@@TVRExploringthat's criminal destroying history ..

@OdySlim Ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Beautiful views at 4:24.

@AbandonedMaine Ай бұрын

If you ever explore the mine at Mt. Raymond on the south side of Yosemite, you'll get equally spectacular views since you have go to the top in order to access it. I didnt make it down but they have some interesting relics from what i could see.

@rolfsinkgraven Ай бұрын

A beautiful place, and a lot off corrosion by the looks of it, looks like the higher mines dumped all their stuff on the lower ones in some places, or it just was a crumbly mountain

@johncarold Ай бұрын

Hey Justin, well, you can't win them all, I guess. I have only been on the Pacific Crest trail from Deer Creek to the Feather River. And yes, the views are incredible. Thanks for trying.

@BrianValley-me6bg Ай бұрын

Reminds me of Castle Craggs in northern California. It's a beautiful place.

@markattardo Ай бұрын

Wow, stunning location!!

@djspatrick Ай бұрын

Do you reckon the adits were caved naturally? That whole area looks like it sees a lot of rockfalls - we call them screes in Scotland. What incredible views and enough exercise to last a few weeks. Hope you rewarded yourselves with some carbs..

@richardbrobeck2384 Ай бұрын

great video !

@aaronkeeth651 Ай бұрын

theirs some unmarked adits associated with the mound..... when we were there do you remember some declines down low below that epic shooting range. there's a huge quartz vein and many open adits......we were so close

@TVRExploring Ай бұрын

Oh, man, it "felt" like there was more there... That's too bad that we missed them, but in our defense it was getting dark!

@stanbatchelor810 Ай бұрын

Great scenery and photography as usual. Im curious, if you skip the turnoff to the mine you were working and do one big switchback there is that huge quartz boulder on the side of the road with a metal pipe pounded in to the ground next to it. There is room to slide under it but i was worried about rattlesnakes. Always wondered if that led anywhere.

@TVRExploring Ай бұрын

That was the Independence Mine, which was later absorbed by the Sierra Buttes Mine. We followed it back a little way, but you are blocked by large slabs that have caved before you can get very far. You were right to be concerned about rattlesnakes. After our visit, we read a historical report that indicated that it had become a den for a significant number of rattlesnakes. We didn't see any when we visited, but there are a lot of rattlesnakes in the area.

@gtfkt Ай бұрын

Do you have an altimeter? They are very useful.

@jeremytuggle6424 Ай бұрын

Nice views!

@norcaljim8535 Ай бұрын

Been near there. We have rode ATVs checking out the lakes.

@karlfonner7589 Ай бұрын

Is that the Sierra Buttes?

@michaelsollars7692 Ай бұрын

Sucks that they've all caved. Let me shimmy down that shaft!

@gerardange Ай бұрын

Justin A hoe would come in very handy “cutting in at the very top of the portal… and sliding in after a few hours work in that wonderful clean air and beautiful country could be refreshing & well worth it!!!!