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hoodrat Veteran user Southern California 388 Posts |
Anybody out there in the southern California area who would be interested in hiking to and safely exploring old mines from the 1800s and early 1900s? I just started doing this a few weeks ago with a buddy who was in town visiting me for a week. We found some old gold mines in the mountains east of San Diego as well as up in Death Valley National Park. I'm trying to find other local people in the southern California area who would be interested in doing this on a monthly basis or so. Does anybody have any experience exploring old, abandoned mines?
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GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
No, don't have any experience but it kind of sounds like fun.
"A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway" - Griffin
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Leland Stone Inner circle 1204 Posts |
I used to live in the High Desert, where abandoned mines were within hiking distance. These shafts and tunnels were largely hard rock mines dating to the early 20th C., and the feeling of being 1/4 mile from sunlight with the unspeakable weight of a mountain kept from one's head only by spindly timbers hurriedly installed by persons of questionable engineering skill is not one I'd care to relive.
If you must, enjoy, but cautiously! Leland |
rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
Okay, but Timmy will have to come along so he can send Lassie for help when the mine starts to cave in.
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