Chasing Down The Out-Of-The-Way Gold Mines Of The Sierra Nevadas

Описание: We’ve been hitting the deserts, mountains, jungles (and more) pretty hard over the past months to find the most unique, interesting abandoned mine sites that we can for you… Given the growing public interest in mine exploration and the determination of various federal agencies to eliminate these same historical mines, we must increasingly get to the most out-of-the-way mines that we can to find the real treasures. Really, that serves as a metaphor for many things in life!

The summer season is a busy one for the TVR crew as that is when we accumulate much of our content. The winter weather prevents us from exploring much of the Sierra Nevadas and much of the desert regions of Nevada and elsewhere. Yes, those desert regions are desert, but they are HIGH desert, which means that they are subjected to much of the same extreme weather that blocks us in the mountains. Thus, our winter trips are often restricted to places like Tombstone in Arizona. I have been chatting with the lads with QLD Abandoned Mines in Australia though and they have extended an invitation to come down and explore Australian mines with them. Visiting the southern hemisphere during winter in the northern hemisphere would certainly solve the trouble with the limited abandoned mine access of winter…

Having just returned from two serious back-to-back mine exploring trips, I can assure you that there is a lot of good stuff sitting on the hard drive, waiting to be edited. I look forward to getting it out to you. I hope that you also enjoy the videos, such as this one, of the smaller mines and the things that we find along the way while we are hunting the big mines.

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You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L

You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD and here: https://bit.ly/2p6Jip6

Several kind viewers have asked about donating to help cover some of the many expenses associated with exploring these abandoned mines. Inspired by their generosity, I set up a Patreon account. So, if anyone would care to chip in, I’m under TVR Exploring on Patreon.

Thanks for watching!

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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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