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Well I've been busy/lazy the last few weeks so I haven't gotten around to posting any pics and all that so here it is:
We ended up showing up at the four metals mine at dark, since I though for some reason we could top of on gas at dugway...duh I should of known better lol, but we ended up finding it relatively easily in the dark with mr. gps and google earth. Camp was uneven and the first night of sleep kinda sucked, but oh well. There was mostly one mine in the area, with some caved in and a trench that I think might of been a low tunnel that collapse, I dunno. We went in one a ways, but came across some questionably passable holes, and seen even more beyond, so we didn't go much further, there was a ladder that we were told by some people that showed up in the morning that goes down to some levels, but being smart, we wouldn't go down the ify looking ladder when we don't have any rope or rappelling gear if we needed it (forgot it, we always forget something it seems lol)
We then wandered around in the trucks and came across this cabin:
Then kenny got brians poor 2wd truck stuck lol:
More views of stuff in the area:
Then I'm not sure what this next mine is, but I think it is one of the rainbow mines, It goes in a ways and someone painted pink arrows on the way to get out, further in, I saw pink rocks, signaling that the walls are not stable, and had to craw thru this part, then smelled some rotten gas smell so we immediately turned back, I didn't get a good smell, but it wasn't normal air, but was slightly sulfur like. Lots of pyrite in this mine area, a road went up further, but was really rocky and loose, and we didn't have enough time to keep going. Also there were a lot of blue and white crystals in the mine, don't know what it is?
THIS one you can see the blue crystals a bit:
Then we kept going to find a decent camp spot:
We found a nice camping spot, but we had to make a train to get brians truck up a hill, barely worked
And our awesome camp spot!
The view:
The rocks behind us, lots of little holes and short caves, probably more in this area:
one of the caves only a few feet tall, and from what I could tell only goes in about 15 or so feet
Animal skeleton here:
This was one of our best camping spots, the pictures don't show the view that well... But in this area there are a bunch more mines around, we just didn't have time to look at any of them, lots of tilling piles and that, but ran short on time, possibly worth going to again for us, but when it is a bit cooler, it was hot during the day, and at dawn on this mountain it was really windy, but calmed down at night.
We ended up showing up at the four metals mine at dark, since I though for some reason we could top of on gas at dugway...duh I should of known better lol, but we ended up finding it relatively easily in the dark with mr. gps and google earth. Camp was uneven and the first night of sleep kinda sucked, but oh well. There was mostly one mine in the area, with some caved in and a trench that I think might of been a low tunnel that collapse, I dunno. We went in one a ways, but came across some questionably passable holes, and seen even more beyond, so we didn't go much further, there was a ladder that we were told by some people that showed up in the morning that goes down to some levels, but being smart, we wouldn't go down the ify looking ladder when we don't have any rope or rappelling gear if we needed it (forgot it, we always forget something it seems lol)
We then wandered around in the trucks and came across this cabin:
Then kenny got brians poor 2wd truck stuck lol:
More views of stuff in the area:
Then I'm not sure what this next mine is, but I think it is one of the rainbow mines, It goes in a ways and someone painted pink arrows on the way to get out, further in, I saw pink rocks, signaling that the walls are not stable, and had to craw thru this part, then smelled some rotten gas smell so we immediately turned back, I didn't get a good smell, but it wasn't normal air, but was slightly sulfur like. Lots of pyrite in this mine area, a road went up further, but was really rocky and loose, and we didn't have enough time to keep going. Also there were a lot of blue and white crystals in the mine, don't know what it is?
THIS one you can see the blue crystals a bit:
Then we kept going to find a decent camp spot:
We found a nice camping spot, but we had to make a train to get brians truck up a hill, barely worked
And our awesome camp spot!
The view:
The rocks behind us, lots of little holes and short caves, probably more in this area:
one of the caves only a few feet tall, and from what I could tell only goes in about 15 or so feet
Animal skeleton here:
This was one of our best camping spots, the pictures don't show the view that well... But in this area there are a bunch more mines around, we just didn't have time to look at any of them, lots of tilling piles and that, but ran short on time, possibly worth going to again for us, but when it is a bit cooler, it was hot during the day, and at dawn on this mountain it was really windy, but calmed down at night.
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