Hi! My name is Frank, and I found this site whle reading an article on exploring abandoned mines on the Forbes.com website. The article was dated October of '08. I have been exploring abandoned gold mines here in the mountains east of San Diego, CA for the last few years. I've also explored a couple mines in Death Valley and outside of Las Vegas. I film most of my adventures with a small digital camera, and have posted several of them on the Hidden San Diego website. I really enjoy the history of these mine sites as well as finding relics and leftover remnants of mining structures and equipment. I also like using topographic maps and GPS to go bushwhacking "off the beaten path" to find some of these forgotten sites. By joining this forum, I hope to meet other intrepid adventurers and explorers who, after getting acquainted, might want to safely check out the many, many abandoned mine sites throughout southern California and Nevada and western Arizona. Hope to talk to many of you soon!
Hi from San Diego, CA!
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hey Frank!
glad to see another socal explorer is joining the ranks of MU. have you been out to the bridge to nowhere? any big mines other then big horn in the San Gabriels? there is a fair amount of us from socal on here. its our job post up huge mines from time to time to make the Utah guys jealous :P -
Welcome! You will find many like minded people on the forums here and we would love to do another adventure to SoCal when time and money permits. Earlier this year we went to Tecopa with the undergroundexplorers.com guys and had a blast. Of course right now even if time and money permitted I would like to wait until the temps cool off in the Mojave Desert before going down there.-Derek
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Originally posted by ryan162hey Frank!
glad to see another socal explorer is joining the ranks of MU. have you been out to the bridge to nowhere? any big mines other then big horn in the San Gabriels? there is a fair amount of us from socal on here. its our job post up huge mines from time to time to make the Utah guys jealous :PComment
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Originally posted by cheeverWelcome! You will find many like minded people on the forums here and we would love to do another adventure to SoCal when time and money permits. Earlier this year we went to Tecopa with the undergroundexplorers.com guys and had a blast. Of course right now even if time and money permitted I would like to wait until the temps cool off in the Mojave Desert before going down there.Comment
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Originally posted by hoodratOriginally posted by ryan162hey Frank!
glad to see another socal explorer is joining the ranks of MU. have you been out to the bridge to nowhere? any big mines other then big horn in the San Gabriels? there is a fair amount of us from socal on here. its our job post up huge mines from time to time to make the Utah guys jealous :P
the big horn is a good easy mine. its 99.9% horizontal and theres maps available. expect alot of traffic there. i think we were in there for 3.5 hours and in that time we ran into three other groups inside. ill pm you all the details of that one. ive heard it may be the largest horizontal mine in California. ill pm you all the details
and yeah lol most of my friends think im nutsComment
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