Weird, cool stuff you found in the woods.

I could go on for days about all the cool stuff I've found in Colorado. And I imagine I haven't even made a dent in everything. SO much cool mining stuff. I'll post a few pics for now and see if I can find some more later. My ex's family had a historic cabin in a ghost town we'd stay in and take the trucks and dirt bikes out to explore. We never wandered too far off the roads though as there were old mine shafts everywhere. Many people have wandered out and never came back...most likely fell into one and died.

This is taken up Mosquito Pass, Colorado. It was at the top of the mountain and was part of an old tram they used to haul things they mined. Obviously a great view and photo op.



Other side, near the truck.


Huge mill at the bottom. It was enormous and the picture doesn't do it justice. Still had a lot of old equipment in it. Was awesome to explore.



Nothing turns me on more than old mining stuff.

 

i love the old mining stuff!

 

Went to Panamint City this weekend, backpacked in 7.5 miles to the old silver mining town. The City was washed out in the late 1800s and again in the late 1900s. The place was lawless in the 1800s, to get around the robbery problem, they shipped the silver, unguarded, as 450 pound cannonballs.

 

Very nice, Andy!

 

Was out geocasheing with the wife today, came up on these cobblestone huts.

 

Did you find the cache? anything good?

 

Found it, nothing good. We found 20 over the weekend.

 

Nice. My wife found one right outside her work a few months ago. She has worked there for 7 years and never knew about it. Walked pased it every day haha

 

Found a hole in a rock! Slade KY- stump cave

 

Awesome pics!

 

That's pretty cool. Is it a cave or just a rock outcrop?

 

Its a cave

 

How deep does it go?

 

Not sure when walking, but with truck not much further than you can see there

 

I was hiding a geocache and poked the ground with my walking stick. The was a gold panning pan and a shovel from nearly a hundred years earlier. I moved that cache and need to go back up ino the mountains with a metal detector. The area is known to have gold in the stream. Many a miner stashed some gold around where I was.

 

That would be nice to find a stash of gold!

 

"That's what she said"

 

Set myself up for that one pretty bad, didn't I?

 

Subbed. Great pics all!