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nope! Dima and I put a robot in a mine last weekend!

dima wrote:Speaking of trash, did you see the 5-gal buckets next to the first bulldozer? Is that used motor oil?

I did find them and they are filled with dirt. Possible for panning

What sucks about the trash situation is that unlike most abandoned buildings in the mountains, this site is built out of metal on concrete foundations so it will all stay around for a VERY long time. That massive hangar has another truck in it along with rows of shelves with tons of replacement part...

We only explored the shorter tunnels. The longer one has over 1000ft of workings but we just didn't have time unfortunately. Maybe if I ever go back, I'll make it an overnight so I can spend more time there. It would be very difficult getting the road cleared though. The majority of the canyon is fl...

The Andrew Curtis Tungsten Mine is a recently abandoned mine at the top of Cattle Canyon below Mt. Baldy. Trucks, mining equipment, clothing, paperwork, and a full mill are just a few of the things that are left behind at the site. The site looks untouched as if the miners left it yesterday, especia...

So the Curtis tungsten mining claims are all inactive and have been since around 2014. I can do some more research to prove the site isn't currently owned but that may take some time. According to the assessor map, the land isn't owned by anyone and according to mining claims, the Curtis claims are ...

HikeUp wrote:Nice TR. Gate locations don't show when I click on OSM (whatever the fuck that is).

OSM stands for Open Street Map

hikeandhike wrote:Oh boy, looks like this was just posted:



Interior of the mine

I'm gonna try and make this trek asap.

hikeandhike wrote:Interesting. Probably won't be too long, sadly, until vandals destroy it.
Neat area, for sure.

I doubt vandels would want to hike 14 miles just to be vandels ?

This fellow walked all around the site, sure looks abandoned: https://www.youtube.com/embed/yobA3V18m7w I have been planning a trip up to that mine for ages but pharaoh beat me to it!! I have taken photos of the mine site with a long lens from the GMR from 2018-2019 and from my photos and research,...

Happy Black Friday everyone! I would like to share a website which also has an app called What3words. Basically it is a simplified alternative to using coordinates to share precise locations. You type in 3 words separated by dots such as, "assure.races.translated" and you can find a specif...

Okay. Thank you for starting this thread! I have been curious to know if there have been any in the foothills above Pasadena? I have some suspicions like off of the idlehour trail about here: (34.2021010, -118.0812166) Or about here in pine canyon: (34.2020944, -118.1152247) Maybe we can make some p...

Pictures?

Its the same with Eaton canyon falls like you all must know. About 15 years ago, my dad would take us hiking there and we would run into 4 to 10 people on the hike. Now it's a zoo which is unfortunate and pretty unsafe.

Is hunting small game legal in the San Gabriel Mountains?

I've got a sticker on my car so let me know if you spot me!

interesting find. I have been to the adit in the Saucer Branch, then down and out to millard cyn Please be cautious in these old unstable tunnels This guy was at the top of his game and paid the ultimate price back in Y2K http://articles.latimes.com/2000/sep/19/local/me-23454 That is tragic. That g...

Sean wrote: Is the beehive in the photo? I don't see it.

Its in the hole. You can kind of see some of the bees.

I found a beehive in the cliff

Congratulations, guys! And thanks for the pictures. That's quite a story of discovery. I've been in that canyon several times, too, and never noticed the opening. We thought of 3 possible places the mine could have been. And this one was the least likely. By far the most digging I've done to find a...

Longest explored mine in the canyon is 832 ft deep. It was mapped in 2003 by dell quick and Hugh Blanchard. On the 1906 map, it's mapped at maybe 100ft. The tunnel we found is mapped at around 300 ft. But like the 832 ft tunnel, it might be longer than what was mapped at the time.

missy wrote:Does anyone know if BP&L Roads in the Angeles Forest are public or private? What does BP&L stand for?

Thank you!
Missy

It stands for Bureau of Parks & Land management. Not sure if they are for the public's, but I bet you can call and ask!

stonehillnews wrote: The first photo isn’t clear enough to be sure, but the bush without leaves looks like it might be poison oak. Are you familiar enough with how oak looks in the winter to say?

I am not too sure what poison oak looks like in the winter. Definitely brushed up against it today. No itchy spots yet!

Dima, Eli, and I decided to check out the rest of the canyon after pausing our excavation. We came across this green moss on the side of the mountain. I look across the canyon to see a MINE IN THE CLIFF right above the trail I have been walking on for years!!! We explored it, took down the coordinat...

As some of you might know, I love to look for lost and forgotten mines in the mountains. My biggest goal is to find every mine in Las Flores Canyon and with the help of the Las Flores Water company, they gave me a map from 1906 showing almost ever mine in the canyon. One mine that looked pretty long...

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3) Is it legal to do what you are doing? Probably not, technically. I think the water in the canyon is owned by the Las Flores water company at that point. The tunnels look to be also. "Las Flores Water Company, Inc. was organized in 1885 by charter members, Peter Gano and Dr. L. A. Wright. Th...

Exactly it. The wall next to the mine is sort of unstable so reinforcements of some kind are ideal. But I might give up on the project of the current rains filled in my work with debris.

Girl Hiker wrote:They sound like a bunch of idiots to me.

It's their forum with their own moderation so they have the right to. But what's funky to me, is that they probably hike the lone tree trail which was refurbished by Paul Ayers. ??

Ok. As some of you know, I have been slowly excavating tunnel number 5 in Las Flores canyon. I wanted some outside help, so I decided to post some photos a a description on the excavating process on the socalhiking community. I got a bunch of comments telling me I'm not being safe and not obeying le...