So today I hiked a very lame trail that I had never even heard of but I googled "old gold mines" in my area and supposedly an old mine is near this trail.
This is the old mine. This was a googled pic I found.
I came across a bunch of old cars. Not sure why they are in the woods here but oh well.
This was the "Tolch Rock". On the left was a hill and it looked like the rock just rolled down the hill and came to rest here.
It was a pretty big rock but when you look around you see other big rocks.
This was a chiseled out inscription on the rock. Have you ever been innawoods by yourself and you crack up laughing? Things had different meanings back then I guess.
>>686578
>On the left
It was on the right.
I looked around and hiked a trail of some kind, not sure if it was a user trail or game trail. Couldn't find any mines though.
nice, thanks for sharing..
this was my hike today - back to my camp.
it was cold and misty but turned like spring time.
i tried out my new stove and did some improvements to the firepit while my fiance started a more permanant shelter.
>>686598
nope its ireland
>>686601
I'm OP. My pics were in Alaska.
had rump steak and tout fillets on the go.
*trout fillets.
>>686603
sorry, i got muddled
would have been happy staying out all night but its back to work tomorrow.
>>686606
As did mr. Tolch.
>>686577
this is very cool.
I went back and am at the mine entrance now.
Quartz on the walls
Very smelly and warm. Lots of bugs.
Never ending turns.
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>>687150
Aww yiss. MOAR!
>>687154
OP walked into a pool of methane and died.
pretty sweet OP! i hope nothing spoopy happens to you.
also, looks a lot like my colonoscopy
This tunnel I followed was a dead end. I'm leaving now because o don't know if there is poison gas or a floor that will collapse.
Now it's getting dark and Fuck the people who hate on GPS and super bright headlamps.
>>687183
>Fuck the people who hate on GPS and super bright headlamps.
gps doesn't work underground. no satellite signal.
I went into an old iron mine in northern New Jersey a few winters ago. Looked just like OP's pics...as I'm walking around there I look up and catch something move out of the corner of my eye...then the whole ceiling moved. That's when I realized every square inch of the cave was covered in those long legged spiders bunched together, folded legs sticking out. Nope'd out of there so fast and had to lie on the snow outside for a good ten minutes.
>>687185
>gps doesn't work underground. no satellite signal.
What?!!?? I used it to get back to my car.
>>687203
I could be wrong but that's what we're told in MSHA training. GPS has to get a signal from a satellite and that doesn't happen underground.
perhaps your phone tracks direction using a compass and distance using a pedometer.
This looked like the floor of an old shack or something. I might have blew it off as natural but it was square.
>>687210
I understand it doesn't work underground. You can see the red tape I left behind on the walls to find my way out of there.
>>687148
And this mine was near the Mendenhall Glacier.
>>687212
>I might have blew it off as natural but it was square.
yeah, it's a cabin. The stacked logs and sheet metal from the roof are a good indication. I like to metal detect around old places like that.
>>687221
A metal detector would be great or even one of those little hand held ones like they have at the airport. The forest floor is covered with moss and if I had time I would have uncovered things. Sometimes you see a moss covered boulder and when you move the moss it's a piece of equipment. I just want to explore this area before the bears wake up.
>>686573
How the fuck is this lame? You aren't the same mofucka that found cars in Alaska before are you?
>>687234
The Tolch trail is lame, it's also very short. You have to go off that trail and follow a stream to find the mine shaft. Today I followed a different stream, that was definitely not lame.
>>687227
wait, you're worried about da bears but you went in an old mine which is exactly the sort of place they like to spend the winter?
anyways, looks like fun. My kind of adventure.
>>687237
But they would be asleep and I would tip toe past them. Also I bring things that would make a bears existence very uncomfortable and I want to avoid that.
>>687240
>hello darkness
Hey OP fellow abandoned mine/urban explorer here, while the slogan "stay out stay alive" always applies to abandoned mines there's more to it then that. You should be especially wary of mines that are partially flooded or have a lot of moisture/water in them. Puddles and flooded floors can easily conceal winzes (vertical shafts that can go hundreds of feet) and false floors (pits or dugouts concealed by almost always rotting or structurally unsound wooden planks.
Also if you stir up that water you can release poisonous damps (mines gases) or find yourself in low oxygen environments from oxidation of rusting or rotting wood and metal. There's no way to tell without a gas monitor and you can pass out before you can escape.
Gold mines out west tend be much safer in this regard because they usually don't have a lot of standing water.
>>687202
Daddy long leg spiders are harmless Just creepy
>>688460
I used a USGS topo map that has mine locations on it but you have to find them, they don't have GPS locations, you sort of have to cross reference a new map. I'm thinking this was another one but it had collapsed. I might bring a small folding shovel and see if it a mine shaft.
>>688460
That's news to me I never knew standing water was a hazard in abandoned mines.
And today I went back and did some test pans. I didn't bring a shovel though and it sucked because I had to get dirt with my hands.
