Exciting Camp-n-Ride - near Melrose, Montana MT.

Exciting Camp-n-Ride - near Melrose, Montana MT.
Join us as we explore the areas east and west of the ghost town of Glendale, Montana with our side-by-sides. This area has been heavily mined over the years and is surrounded by the Beaverhead National Forest.
Lion Mountain sits at an elevation of 9,550 feet and mining continued in summer and winter until 1893 with the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Cleopatra, the largest mine in the area, closed in 1895.
Mines include Hecla, True Blue, Cleopatra, Keokirk, Cleve, Silver-King, Franklin, Elm-Orlv, and Minni-Gaffney.
This sequence was captured with a Hero-11 Camera, a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced, and a DJI Mavic 2 Pro with a Hasselblad camera. Editing was accomplished with Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Many thanks to my good friends Bill and Rick for providing entertainment and some of the pictures.
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A mini-history lesson:
Lion City and Hecla Mines - A Montana Ghost Town - near Melrose, Montana MT
The Hecla Mines on Lion Mountain are amazing. You can see adits (openings to horizontal mines) to 20 miles of underground tunnels. Miners had to climb stairs to enter these openings in order to go to work extracting ore that contained silver, lead and copper.
The ore was transported to the stamp mill four miles away by overhead cable cars and then transported to Glendale for smelting. All the trees you see have grown since the 1890’s since all timber was stripped from the hills to feed the smelters blast furnaces.
Silver mining came to a virtual standstill with the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893. Sporadic mining occurred until 1922.
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Historic Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns - near Melrose, Montana MT
In a drainage close to the ghost town of Glendale, Montana sits the ruins of 23 charcoal kilns. Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns were constructed in 1881 and used until 1900. They transformed 11,665 acres of pine trees into 19 million bushels of charcoal.
Coke was shipped in from Pennsylvania and together they fueled the smelters in Glendale. The roaster glowed red as the three 50-ton blast furnaces roared. Bullion from the Glendale furnaces was melted into 90-pound silver bars and shipped to Omaha for final processing.
Some of the kilns were whitewashed to help keep the smoke inside. In 1900 the mines were closed and the smelter at Glendale was torn down. The unused kilns fell into ruin. The Forest Service has been stabilizing the kilns and now Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns is one of the best-preserved kiln sites in Montana.
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[@user-ot1bw4sn1b]

Спасибо! Это великолепно! Смотрю ваше видео давно, подписана много лет на ваш канал! Ваша страна прекрасна! Очень жаль, что никогда не попаду туда! Благодаря вам путешествую по этим прекрасным местам!🥰👍👋🤝🌹🕊🌎

[@davidegg22]

Many thanks for watching and subscribing. We all have awesome places to explore even in our own countries. Too much to see, so little time! Many thanks again. Dave. Большое спасибо за просмотр и подписку. У каждого из нас есть потрясающие места, которые стоит исследовать, даже в наших собственных странах. Слишком много всего нужно увидеть, и так мало времени! Еще раз большое спасибо. Дэйв.

[@Go4Corvette]

Beautiful area, thanks for the tour, Dave

[@davidegg22]

Glad you enjoyed it. Just found some time to process last summer's adventures. Dave.

[@stcroixman2002]

Thx for posting! I was there a few years back fishing the Big Hole, nice to see the backcountry and ruins, nice footage

[@davidegg22]

Thanks for watching. It certainly is an interesting area to explore. Thanks for the comment. Dave.

[@indyme2]

Dave, you know I am a geology/history nut. Why do you torture me with scenery like this? Lol. My head will be spinning for days. Awesome video capturing and editing once again. Look out Ken Burns! David E. is close on your heals.

[@davidegg22]

Jerry, I shook my head when I read your comment! As I always say, too much to see - so little time! At least things are slowing down so I can do some adventure editing. Ken Burns was in town a few months ago talking about his Buffalo documentary that was captured at the National Bison Range about 30 miles from here. I should have gone downtown and introduced myself. He is such an awesome cinematographer.

[@drue6360]

That camp spot you’re at below Hecla mine, we camped there just recently but we took some SxS trails to it. Technical as all get out in full sized trucks

[@davidegg22]

Thanks for viewing and commenting. We came up from Melrose so it wasn't all that bad. I'm just glad we didn't meet anyone on the road from Glendale to this spot and back four days later since it was pretty much a one-lane road. Dave in Missoula.

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

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