Exploring Abandoned Mines In Death Valley - 2023 Edition
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- čas přidán 28. 11. 2023
- We've been out to Death Valley National Park a few times, exploring mines and ghost towns in the surrounding desert. This year we found a few ne (to us) locations to check out! This video is going to be mostly mines (and some natural landform stuff). There will be some other videos with more of the ghost towns and other things we saw!
Please note that mine exploring can be dangerous, and should not be attempted without proper safety equipment, training, and experience.
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As a geologist, I absolutely love this. Wish I could come check it all out.
I enjoyed every minute of this video. I love being able to live vicariously on your adventures and satellite experiments. And because of you I am now SDRing and APTing myself. I am really enjoying the beginning of my satellite adventures, it is so much fun. Thanks for taking us along Gabe and I cant wait for the next installment of the 2023 Death Valley Expeditions
I love the wild life footage
Yeah that was just a bit good. Superb.
Some neat abandoned uranium mines in Utah. You should go there next.
This is so neat!!!
I'd be nerding TF out in that crystal room!
Welcome to our backyard, The backyard can be a big scary place with many a creature either out to eat and or disable you for others to,, eat you. Thanks for sharing.
So. Much. Fun!
My new favourite channel, currently binge watching all your other random stuff lol... Keep em coming
cool video! thanks!!!
extremely cool.
fine business
Wow, wild! Thanks Gabe! I knew Tatooine was partially filmed in Death Valley so I went looking for more info and found some notes including the identity of the elephant who played the Bantha. I may have ridden on that elephant at the park it came from (Marine World Africa U.S.A.) and surely saw it in an elephant show, and I never knew. For locations I found: Filming took place in five different locations in the park, including Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Desolation Canyon, Golden Canyon, and Dante’s View, all of which can be accessed from the Furnace Creek Visitor Center.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Save it for Parts is one of my favorite underground artists 😄 - this was a fun vid!
Maybe an old oil lamp fell and started that fire. Good spot to hang a lamp, right? Interesting mines!
You'll have to get out to Cerro Gordo one day. :D
Awesome video! I used to explore Death Valley are back in the 70's while in the Marines. So much cool geology there. Look forward to more.
15:36 nice!
Mineral collector here. What you call geodes we call vugs, or pockets. Similar but different.
Great video and interesting
Really cool video! Would be wild to see some "saveitforparts" tech inside the mines somehow! The thermal camera was a nice touch. That loaded shoot at 9:38 looked scary as hell imo.
Cool Video!
That was a nice seam of galena in the wall there
Hi Gabe, finally managing to catch up on some of your recent videos.
I really enjoyed this trip and always appreciate the historical information that you include during your narration.
The formation that looked like the big skull instantly made me think of the The Goonies.
I’m also not sure what goes through people’s minds regarding making a fire inside a mine, I would imagine a general lack of respect would be a key factor.
The sunset camera shots you showed were fantastic and seeing the landscape as you exited the mine was also great.
Thank you for sharing this excellent video with everyone. Best wishes to you, your family and the feline overlords 🏴🇺🇸
Aliens are pretty crummy drivers for being advanced species.
They crash all the time
Thanks for posting. This looks dangerous, but it’ll probably be fine until I’m long gone. Great footage!
Need to find some hominids
Hope you keep your receipts this time. glad you showed us the glory hole first, for educational purposes of cause.
14:13 is dendritic pyrolusite :)
As a Canadian I can very much say. "Fuck that" at 0:06
Do you think claustrophobia would be a problem? What a cool place to go rock hunting.
Thanks saveitfor
Fortunately I'm not claustrophobic! I don't *love* crawly tunnels, but that's mostly because I'm old and grumpy and my knees hurt 😂
Reminds me a bit of the tunnels above your old homestead
Can you go back to Funter and do content someday?
That would be fun, need to get permission for those though!
Even if I could still hike, I don't think I'd be easily convinced to hike 2 miles *downhill* to a lead mine. Lol
Gold or silver, I'd be all for it.
A very common ore of silver is galena which is lead sulfide. It often occurs with argentite which is silver sulfide. All the gold mines in my area are absolutely chock full of tellurium which is even worse than lead. I share your lack of enthusiasm for being inside lead mines.
@@Peter_S_ interesting, I had never heard of tellurium before. I can see why you'd want to avoid that as well. I've experienced lead exposure headaches. I'm in no rush to do it again.
@@DirtyPlumbus I hear you. I spent my life in electronics manufacturing. I also limit exposure these days.
Oh chute! What a sweet display of spiders and asses! Don’t forget to stick around for the crystallized cheese folks! 🧀
A very interesting mine exploration; I hope you found gold and are now very rich. The sweet donkeys could help transport a lot of gold from the mine. The cute spiders seem to occur there more frequently. I've been thinking if it's damp in the mines or what else could be decomposing the wood. It brought me a lot of joy to explore the mines with them. Thank you very much for taking me along.
It's actually really dry in the mines out there (and in the whole area!) A lot of the wood is in fantastic condition, if kids haven't tried to set it on fire. Even some of the metal is in good condition and not super rusty. I used to explore mines in Alaska and they are much more damp and rotten!
@@saveitforparts This was mentioned in the video that it is foolish to start a fire in a mine. Thank you very much for the feedback. And please stay tuned for the North Korean spy satellite; the launch is reported to be successful, and the satellite is said to be functioning. The satellite is said to have beamed images of the White House to Earth. One should give it some more time and then check again if the satellite is transmitting now.
It's funny I recognize some of these from another CZcamsr called abandoned and forgotten places.
SPIDER eeee so cute so fuzzy
edit- and the donks! also cute and fuzzy
Great video! Every year I tell myself that ill make it to this and still haven't.
It's pretty fun! We can't make it every year, but it's a good time when we do!
Nice cave, better than sand 😜
just wanted to throw this out there. for your rail rider, to my understanding, the rail that parallels hwy 94 is discontinued. it used to service the nuclear plant in monticello but is no longer used. maybe a good long rail run on that
I've noticed that from the highway, I think it serves one or two businesses in the North Suburbs but then kind of dies off.
@saveitforparts looking on Google maps, after the jk self storage in Albertville, mn, the rail becomes much more overgrown. might be worth exploring
One time you mentioned a friend of yours doing some 3D scanning of mines, not sure the ones from adventures like this one, sandland or both. Any chance of a video demonstrating such techniques? Are the data freely avaiable for us nerds to poke and view? Thanks again for another great video!
That was the last time we went out to Death Valley, our friend didn't make it on this trip due to work stuff. I don't think he has the data online, it's more of a personal project for him. I can ask him about it though!
where do i find friends like this? lol
Go outside.
In a cave
*waits in cave*
haha@@kevinleee3408
more.
Furnace Creek in Death Valley is where Hollywood transformed the desert into the central nexus of Tatooine 40 years ago.
Anybody who likes mine content may want to check out the channel 'Exploring Abandoned Mines'. Frank just retired after 10 years and now runs a mine museum in Canada but he's started re-running his decade of explores.
Frank is a thief and steals artifacts from heritage sites. He was caught by the locals and the RCMP pillaging from a mine in the Yukon.
@undergroundmines has good content, the guy that posts the videos has a bizarre sense of humour, and he doesn’t pillage.
Its minecraft caving but IRL 😀
Time to extract some uranium 😀😄
1:25 "Don't mention my bee hole" - #LeslieKnope 🐝
Can you test two way radio`s in caves?
That's something I've considered, might be an interesting future video :-)
Have you visited the Arizona desert? we have interesting places also.
Years ago I checked out some missile silos in AZ, I should go back sometime!
Multiple holes ??
Adits
Do you have any Emil???
I assume there's no hope of ever getting to anything like this without a vehicle?
You need something with 4wd and some off-road capability for most of these spots! Plus camping gear and plenty of water, there aren't many towns, hotels, or gas stations out here!
@@saveitforparts that's what I figured. I wouldn't have access to a vehicle at all, off-road or on-, but i'm still hoping to find something like this that's easier, or at least possible, to get to
Hey real life Minecraft mining. LOL
Nice masks , you should wear space suits.
Some people wear cave suits (basically just overalls) to protect their clothes. Since we were out there camping all week we didn't really bother with that. I just tend to keep some "tunnel" clothes that are too worn or stained for normal life.
And you didn't have someone jump in front of the camera with a stick and do the sand people yell? Shame! :)
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