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Tolch Rock Trail

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2016 23:52:31 No.686573 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>687234

So today I hiked a very lame trail that I had never even heard of but I googled "old gold mines" in my area and supposedly an old mine is near this trail.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2016 23:53:46 No.686575 Report

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This is the old mine. This was a googled pic I found.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2016 23:55:10 No.686577 Report

Quoted By: >>686623

I came across a bunch of old cars. Not sure why they are in the woods here but oh well.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2016 23:56:50 No.686578 Report

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This was the "Tolch Rock". On the left was a hill and it looked like the rock just rolled down the hill and came to rest here.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2016 23:58:19 No.686579 Report

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It was a pretty big rock but when you look around you see other big rocks.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:00:21 No.686583 Report

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This was a chiseled out inscription on the rock. Have you ever been innawoods by yourself and you crack up laughing? Things had different meanings back then I guess.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:03:17 No.686585 Report

Quoted By: >>686598

>>686578
>On the left
It was on the right.

I looked around and hiked a trail of some kind, not sure if it was a user trail or game trail. Couldn't find any mines though.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:19:56 No.686593 Report

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nice, thanks for sharing..
this was my hike today - back to my camp.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:21:28 No.686594 Report

Quoted By: >>686598

it was cold and misty but turned like spring time.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:22:51 No.686597 Report

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:23:03 No.686598 Report

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>>686594
This is Alaska
>>686585
No snow on the ground and it was 47 degrees.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:25:36 No.686600 Report

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i tried out my new stove and did some improvements to the firepit while my fiance started a more permanant shelter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:27:14 No.686601 Report

Quoted By: >>686603

>>686598
nope its ireland

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:27:55 No.686603 Report

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>>686601
I'm OP. My pics were in Alaska.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:29:44 No.686606 Report

Quoted By: >>686617

had rump steak and tout fillets on the go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:34:05 No.686609 Report

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*trout fillets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:35:36 No.686610 Report

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>>686603
sorry, i got muddled

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:37:11 No.686611 Report

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:40:27 No.686612 Report

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would have been happy staying out all night but its back to work tomorrow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 00:54:54 No.686617 Report

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>>686606
As did mr. Tolch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 01:05:27 No.686623 Report

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>>686577
this is very cool.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:12:49 No.687138 Report

Quoted By: >>687154

I went back and am at the mine entrance now.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:19:04 No.687145 Report

Quoted By: >>687154

Quartz on the walls

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:20:14 No.687148 Report

Quoted By: >>687154 >>687215

Very smelly and warm. Lots of bugs.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:21:35 No.687150 Report

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Never ending turns.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:27:39 No.687154 Report

Quoted By: >>687173

>>687138
>>687145
>>687148
>>687150
Aww yiss. MOAR!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:46:26 No.687173 Report

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>>687154
OP walked into a pool of methane and died.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:50:10 No.687176 Report

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pretty sweet OP! i hope nothing spoopy happens to you.

also, looks a lot like my colonoscopy

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:57:50 No.687183 Report

Quoted By: >>687185

This tunnel I followed was a dead end. I'm leaving now because o don't know if there is poison gas or a floor that will collapse.

Now it's getting dark and Fuck the people who hate on GPS and super bright headlamps.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2016 23:59:36 No.687185 Report

Quoted By: >>687203

>>687183
>Fuck the people who hate on GPS and super bright headlamps.
gps doesn't work underground. no satellite signal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 00:33:10 No.687202 Report

Quoted By: >>688462

I went into an old iron mine in northern New Jersey a few winters ago. Looked just like OP's pics...as I'm walking around there I look up and catch something move out of the corner of my eye...then the whole ceiling moved. That's when I realized every square inch of the cave was covered in those long legged spiders bunched together, folded legs sticking out. Nope'd out of there so fast and had to lie on the snow outside for a good ten minutes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 00:34:02 No.687203 Report

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>>687185
>gps doesn't work underground. no satellite signal.
What?!!?? I used it to get back to my car.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 00:42:25 No.687210 Report

Quoted By: >>687215

>>687203
I could be wrong but that's what we're told in MSHA training. GPS has to get a signal from a satellite and that doesn't happen underground.

perhaps your phone tracks direction using a compass and distance using a pedometer.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 00:44:52 No.687212 Report

Quoted By: >>687221

This looked like the floor of an old shack or something. I might have blew it off as natural but it was square.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 00:48:02 No.687215 Report

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>>687210
I understand it doesn't work underground. You can see the red tape I left behind on the walls to find my way out of there.
>>687148

And this mine was near the Mendenhall Glacier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 00:54:56 No.687221 Report

Quoted By: >>687227

>>687212
>I might have blew it off as natural but it was square.
yeah, it's a cabin. The stacked logs and sheet metal from the roof are a good indication. I like to metal detect around old places like that.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 01:01:06 No.687227 Report

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>>687221
A metal detector would be great or even one of those little hand held ones like they have at the airport. The forest floor is covered with moss and if I had time I would have uncovered things. Sometimes you see a moss covered boulder and when you move the moss it's a piece of equipment. I just want to explore this area before the bears wake up.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 01:16:27 No.687234 Report

Quoted By: >>687236

>>686573
How the fuck is this lame? You aren't the same mofucka that found cars in Alaska before are you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 01:32:48 No.687236 Report

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>>687234
The Tolch trail is lame, it's also very short. You have to go off that trail and follow a stream to find the mine shaft. Today I followed a different stream, that was definitely not lame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 01:33:45 No.687237 Report

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>>687227
wait, you're worried about da bears but you went in an old mine which is exactly the sort of place they like to spend the winter?

anyways, looks like fun. My kind of adventure.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 01:41:48 No.687240 Report

Quoted By: >>687835

>>687237
But they would be asleep and I would tip toe past them. Also I bring things that would make a bears existence very uncomfortable and I want to avoid that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2016 22:17:48 No.687835 Report

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>>687240
>hello darkness

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Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2016 23:40:28 No.688460 Report

Quoted By: >>688480 >>688603

Hey OP fellow abandoned mine/urban explorer here, while the slogan "stay out stay alive" always applies to abandoned mines there's more to it then that. You should be especially wary of mines that are partially flooded or have a lot of moisture/water in them. Puddles and flooded floors can easily conceal winzes (vertical shafts that can go hundreds of feet) and false floors (pits or dugouts concealed by almost always rotting or structurally unsound wooden planks.

Also if you stir up that water you can release poisonous damps (mines gases) or find yourself in low oxygen environments from oxidation of rusting or rotting wood and metal. There's no way to tell without a gas monitor and you can pass out before you can escape.

Gold mines out west tend be much safer in this regard because they usually don't have a lot of standing water.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2016 23:42:02 No.688462 Report

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>>687202
Daddy long leg spiders are harmless Just creepy

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2016 00:37:16 No.688480 Report

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>>688460
I used a USGS topo map that has mine locations on it but you have to find them, they don't have GPS locations, you sort of have to cross reference a new map. I'm thinking this was another one but it had collapsed. I might bring a small folding shovel and see if it a mine shaft.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2016 05:10:12 No.688603 Report

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>>688460

That's news to me I never knew standing water was a hazard in abandoned mines.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Feb 2016 01:04:10 No.689208 Report

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And today I went back and did some test pans. I didn't bring a shovel though and it sucked because I had to get dirt with my hands.

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