Mine Shaft Exploration Trip (in Tecopa, Ca)

Therrin

Howdy all,

I've been gone for a bit. This last weekend I met up with a group of folks from another forum I've been on alot lately. We had been planning a trip out to the mines in Tecopa, Ca. Hopefully you can all view this thread I'm going to link to. The trip was absolutely amazing!!!

There are several pictures posted with me in them; I'm the quirky lookin guy with the white helmet, dual headlamps, wearing the blue backpack and the yellow 4-gas detector on my climbing harness.
There are also several good videos with me in them of rappelling & ascending down and up out of shafts of different sorts.

Points of interest: the stolen truck I discovered 200 ft down at the bottom of a vertical shaft at an abandoned talc mine. It had '09 plates. We called it in, apparently it'd been stolen last year and never found (till now). No bodies in it, I checked.

In the Columbia 2 Mine, at around 800 vertical feet down (and several hundred yards in horizontal distance in several different runs, we found a functional ore cart that still rolled along several hundred feet of tracks. The tracks had operational switching mechanisms which could switch the cart from one track to another.
We took turns putting eachother in the cart with the video camera, then pushing from behind the longest length of the track with the rider recording the ride.

There were many more wonders, astounding in all kinds of ways, that we found beneath the sands of Tecopa. Check out the link, and maybe I'll post up some more pictures on this thread in a bit.

Urban Exploration Resource: Forum - Thread: Peace Dove: End of Days

The person named "snordhol" posted up most of the pictures with me in them. They got back home a few days sooner than I did. In most of his posts you'll see me rappelling down shafts or other various drifts and holes that the others werent fond of going into. I was a bit of a tunnel rat down there.

Therrin

Victor Lindsay

Did the same thing in New Mexico. Good times!

Therrin

PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN!!!!

j/p

Do ya have any idea which mines you were in? In tecopa we hit up the War Eagle, the Noonday, and the Columbia 2 mines, as well as several other's I'm not quite clear on the names yet. I've done several other mines in Cali, though not as LARGE as these recent ones, and a few out in Arizona as well.

Would love to see some pictures though, if you have any.

Therrin

Ahh, here was a particularly fun video. Since we were surrounded by desert for miles and miles we decided to make a few things go "kaboom" in the camp fire.

This was one of the best ones.

Eric Frei

Ya flamin mad mate, glass shrapnel!

Was funny though.

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Victor Lindsay

I did that in the 80s, no digital photos then. My second wife has the photos...B.