Hoist On 800' Deep Shaft, Tight Squeeze Into Collapsed Portal In Historic Mining District

For this mine explore, we visited a historic gold mining district that was worked in the very early 1900s. We spotted the huge hoist sitting near a 800 foot deep vertical shaft that was mostly plugged at the top. After checking out the hoist, we hiked around until we found an adit that we managed to squeeze into. We found a sizable and interesting working which we gave a thorough going over. While exploring the mine, we found where there was a vertical shaft that intersected one of the drifts. After finishing the explore of the horizontal workings, we looked around outside for the vertical shaft, which we found. We inspected the shaft, which had a ladder system, but the ladders had detached and fallen into the shaft except about the top 50 feet of them. This prevented us from being able to enter the shaft and climb the ladders. We hope you enjoy this video! Here is a link to a nearby mine that has some nice fluorescing opal:    • Video