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Thought I would share our trip to Spor mountian with everyone. We left on time Friday and got out around spor mountain area while it was still light. The sun was shinning and it was warm and very nice. Lots of cool looking mountains and rock formations to look at. Here are some pictures of the mountians:
not very many pictures, but the area is really beautiful imho.
First mine we came across was a pit mostly, and had tunnels in the sides, but we didn't go in it as we forgot the rappelling gear, but brought the rope.
First mine we checked out, we were excited to go in this one!
We reached the end fairly quickly... no more than 100 feet in. It went down, but we didn't have the proper climbing gear with us for this mine.
Old bulldozer
Some machinery
Second mine we found:
My friend leading the way
Keeps on going.. the walls were very sparkly in some areas:
Where this tunnel ended...looked like a shute for ore, took maybe 20 minutes of continuous walking to reach this point, so it was a ways in.
But there was a ladder that went up a long ways:
Some buildings in the area:
Our campsite pictured below was forced upon us. it was starting to get dark and we were looking for somewhere cool to camp, we left spor mountain and headed west, as it started to rain, and the dirt at spor mountain was getting very slimey. I ended up following my buddy, who seemed he had somewhere he wanted to go, going on something that might of been a trail at one time across a valley. Finding nothing I told him lets get back on the main road. On the way back I started to hear weird noises coming from my truck. i stopped and looked at it and everything seemed fine. Kept going, but stopped quickly again cuz I knew something wasn't right. Walked the passenger side and my rear tire was not quite in the right spot, upon inspection, the leaf spring broke. We set up camp as it was getting dark and was now raining. Even though it wasn't a spot we wanted to camp at it was pretty nice.
Part of our view from our camp spot the next day:
Soon as we set up camp, it stopped raining... go figure.
Now that my truck is crippled, we figured this will be our only night out there, so our dinner was intesting. We planned on stew the first night, and moose steak the second. But we started cooking the stew (and drinking) in a dutch oven and decided to start adding stuff, like the moose and carrots, and what not. It turned out extremely good. Though our motor skill at this time were impaired and we each had 4+ plates lol.
The next morning we woke up and cleaned up any garbage we didnt get into our garbage bag and got the fire started again.
Being hungry, and slightly irritated with the cold wind, we decided to cook breakfast (though lunch time by now). It started out as bacon in the dutch oven, but admiring our success from last night, we started to add things. Onions was first, then hot dogs, then potatos. Having only few plates left over from the night before, and unable to locate the bread we brought, we used the tortillas we brought and made a bacon-cheese-potato-hot dog-ketchup burrito. It was interesting but quite good.
We managed to work the leaf spring back into where it should be, and strapped the crap out of it to keep it in place, and managed to drive all the way home with no issues with the leaf spring. Even though it was rigged up to work we decided to go home anyways, and it was windy, cold and raining, and my truck was going to limit greatly what we could do.
In conclusion this area was really cool, and we had a ton of fun (we always do
) and we will be going back really soon as this trip was poorly prepared and cut short. There are a ton of mines on that mountain we were unable to look at in the time we were there. There appears to be an active mine still there, but we didn't check it out. The leaf spring, upon inspection, was broken for some time, there being rust most of the way into the crack (I wonder if that ton of coal I hauled a few times before caused that? lol), the heavy load I had and the flexing I was doing was the final straw. I will have an extra leaf added when I fix it. I have learned again, that we need better organization of our food and supplies, we brought most of our stuff, but was packed kind of in haste. I honestly just think we were all very excited to go, and rushed our packing.
We have plans to make, or get, a trailer for camping, not necessarily with beds, but just organized storage, and possibly stoves and other stuff like that. Have something with no set up time, so we can be extremely mobile in our camping trips, as we like to do. My buddy has a rolling trailer frame we may make into one, then we also have a tiny camping trailer we have, but need to fix it up and clean it big time (was on land we bought and was abandoned for some time, though it still has all the windows surprisingly)
But we will be going back out there really soon!
not very many pictures, but the area is really beautiful imho.
First mine we came across was a pit mostly, and had tunnels in the sides, but we didn't go in it as we forgot the rappelling gear, but brought the rope.
First mine we checked out, we were excited to go in this one!
We reached the end fairly quickly... no more than 100 feet in. It went down, but we didn't have the proper climbing gear with us for this mine.
Old bulldozer
Some machinery
Second mine we found:
My friend leading the way
Keeps on going.. the walls were very sparkly in some areas:
Where this tunnel ended...looked like a shute for ore, took maybe 20 minutes of continuous walking to reach this point, so it was a ways in.
But there was a ladder that went up a long ways:
Some buildings in the area:
Our campsite pictured below was forced upon us. it was starting to get dark and we were looking for somewhere cool to camp, we left spor mountain and headed west, as it started to rain, and the dirt at spor mountain was getting very slimey. I ended up following my buddy, who seemed he had somewhere he wanted to go, going on something that might of been a trail at one time across a valley. Finding nothing I told him lets get back on the main road. On the way back I started to hear weird noises coming from my truck. i stopped and looked at it and everything seemed fine. Kept going, but stopped quickly again cuz I knew something wasn't right. Walked the passenger side and my rear tire was not quite in the right spot, upon inspection, the leaf spring broke. We set up camp as it was getting dark and was now raining. Even though it wasn't a spot we wanted to camp at it was pretty nice.
Part of our view from our camp spot the next day:
Soon as we set up camp, it stopped raining... go figure.
Now that my truck is crippled, we figured this will be our only night out there, so our dinner was intesting. We planned on stew the first night, and moose steak the second. But we started cooking the stew (and drinking) in a dutch oven and decided to start adding stuff, like the moose and carrots, and what not. It turned out extremely good. Though our motor skill at this time were impaired and we each had 4+ plates lol.
The next morning we woke up and cleaned up any garbage we didnt get into our garbage bag and got the fire started again.
Being hungry, and slightly irritated with the cold wind, we decided to cook breakfast (though lunch time by now). It started out as bacon in the dutch oven, but admiring our success from last night, we started to add things. Onions was first, then hot dogs, then potatos. Having only few plates left over from the night before, and unable to locate the bread we brought, we used the tortillas we brought and made a bacon-cheese-potato-hot dog-ketchup burrito. It was interesting but quite good.
We managed to work the leaf spring back into where it should be, and strapped the crap out of it to keep it in place, and managed to drive all the way home with no issues with the leaf spring. Even though it was rigged up to work we decided to go home anyways, and it was windy, cold and raining, and my truck was going to limit greatly what we could do.
In conclusion this area was really cool, and we had a ton of fun (we always do
) and we will be going back really soon as this trip was poorly prepared and cut short. There are a ton of mines on that mountain we were unable to look at in the time we were there. There appears to be an active mine still there, but we didn't check it out. The leaf spring, upon inspection, was broken for some time, there being rust most of the way into the crack (I wonder if that ton of coal I hauled a few times before caused that? lol), the heavy load I had and the flexing I was doing was the final straw. I will have an extra leaf added when I fix it. I have learned again, that we need better organization of our food and supplies, we brought most of our stuff, but was packed kind of in haste. I honestly just think we were all very excited to go, and rushed our packing. We have plans to make, or get, a trailer for camping, not necessarily with beds, but just organized storage, and possibly stoves and other stuff like that. Have something with no set up time, so we can be extremely mobile in our camping trips, as we like to do. My buddy has a rolling trailer frame we may make into one, then we also have a tiny camping trailer we have, but need to fix it up and clean it big time (was on land we bought and was abandoned for some time, though it still has all the windows surprisingly)
But we will be going back out there really soon!
Another one to add to the list of places I need to finish exploring. I don't know the name off the top of my head, but I can look it up.
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