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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 20, 2014 - 08:52am PT
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Ever since I was little kid, I've always been fascinated by old mines and rock quarries. I've never really understood why. The first time I hiked up past Gaylor Lakes to the old mining site of Dana Village, I just knew that someday I'd make a video about the place.
Here it is.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Nov 20, 2014 - 08:57am PT
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cool vid Steve , are you into exploring CA and NV mining sites as well ?
Of course we all now Bodie and Cerro Gordo , but they are literally hundreds of abandoned towns and mining works out there . Finding them and exploring them is a thriving pursuit and hobby for a lot of folks .
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Rockies Obscure
Trad climber
rockiesobscure.com....Canada
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Nov 20, 2014 - 09:22am PT
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I love ghost towns as well, and starting being taken to them as a child up in Canada. Very nice video thanks!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Nov 20, 2014 - 09:30am PT
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Thanks for that Greg and Steve.
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 09:49am PT
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Dapper Dan - yep, I always find myself driving long and bumpy roads throughout CA and NV looking for old mines and such. This video is a bit of stretch to even call Dana Village and Golden Crown "towns", but alas, that's the best Yosemite can do!
Speaking of cool old mines, have any of you ever explored the maze of tunnels in the old pumice mine along hwy 6 between Bishop and Benton? Very unique vibe in there.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 20, 2014 - 10:02am PT
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Gotta love Ghosthauntsploring!! Thanks man!!
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 10:04am PT
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Here's my favorite pic from Dana Village
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 10:39am PT
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Here's another cool thing we found up at Dana Village. It's a Minerals Management marker, most likely from the 1800's. I think this might be the oldest benchmark in Yosemite.
I like how it's been set in place with what looks like molten lead.
It's still marked on topo maps too
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Nov 20, 2014 - 11:41am PT
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Hiked up to Dana Village from Gaylor Lakes one hot day in October and saw some of the mining equipment that the NPS video says the miners hauled up there on sledges:
Rough work! Horse power!
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 11:49am PT
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Actually Bruce, I've always suspected that piece of equipment at Dana Village was NOT from the epic sled trip from Lundy, but I'm pretty sure the stuff down at Bennettville is. Then again, who knows for sure?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 20, 2014 - 11:50am PT
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Here's Survival's old place in New Mexico...
That dude is older than dirt!
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 12:35pm PT
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There's a great story from the old Homer Mining Index in 1881 (published in Lundy) about an explosion in one of the stone cabin's in Dana Village, the result of trying to thaw frozen nitroglycerin on the woodstove.
Here's an exerpt of the article from the book "Ghost Mines of Yosemite"
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/ghost_mines/explosion.html
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Nov 20, 2014 - 12:50pm PT
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RAD!! I need to go hike up there someday!
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 01:39pm PT
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The rusty machinery at Bennettville is super cool - the patent date on this blower is from 1873!
Crazy to think that this equipment was brought up on sleds, in the winter, from Lundy 130 years ago.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Nov 20, 2014 - 01:48pm PT
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Great video. I remember a cool mine a bit further south, by White Fang and Baldwin. Rock there was like crystals.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Nov 20, 2014 - 04:42pm PT
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Speaking of cool old mines, have any of you ever explored the maze of tunnels in the old pumice mine along hwy 6 between Bishop and Benton? Very unique vibe in there.
Hmm this sounds like something to look into. All of Hwy 6 is magic, pure magic.
Here's my favorite pic...
That slowly traversing shot inside the cabin that brought the peak into perfect frame was beautiful.
PS - My 5 year old daughter has watched the Monarchs episode about five times now. Last weekend we walked over to one of the dried out patches of milkweed in a meadow that (I think) you filmed. She was excited. Hell I was too.
Is that frazzle/frizzle ice still the most views your Nature Notes vids have clocked? Love your stuff, keep it coming!
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 05:10pm PT
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Is that frazzle/frizzle ice still the most views your Nature Notes vids have clocked?
Yep, the Frazil Ice episode is the hands down winner at 4.5 million views. Glad your daughter likes the "Monarchs & Milkweed" episode. Until I made that video, I never realized how much insect action was going on in those milkweed patches.
Here's a pic of that pumice mine.
It's pretty cool cuz it's basically a grid of passages, carved into a pumic layer that has lava above and below, so they used more of a hardrock mining technique. The only thing is that the walls look like they were just scrapped off w/ a shovel. From some of the left over stuff at the "mill" there, it appears the pumice was used as a turf ammendment for golf courses.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Nov 20, 2014 - 05:24pm PT
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All my old favorite hiking haunts. Always wondered, tooo lazy to look up the info..now i know...Super Fantastic..Thanks so much Mr Steve...(-;
Hey Miss Lynne....Check this out.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Nov 20, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
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Great stuff! Thanks for posting. MORE when you get it.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Nov 20, 2014 - 09:21pm PT
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Love the ghost town pics and love the videos. Thanks.
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