This valve handle is so corroded that part of it's missing.
We're going to continue down that junction
where Traci is. We haven't gone down there yet, so let's check it out!
The tunnel keeps going.
That's just a big cavity.
We'll continue down that way.
I'm
feeling some airflow here. I'm not sure what that means. Could be another opening
to the outside up here or something. It seems like the airflow has picked up a little bit.
Wow! Some collapse here has buried the air and water lines. See that?
They're covered up by the collapse right there.
Approaching another junction. You can see the the split here. The ore cart tracks
right there straight ahead -- it looks like the tunnel collapsed and it's covering up the tracks.
Here's a dead end but there's something going down. Oh! This is the ladder Nick was talking
about -- the metal ladder. I thought he said that was down the other tunnel! It's down this one!
There's a metal ladder over there. Let me zoom in right there. Nick took a look down here and said
below the metal ladder is a wooden ladder. Well, we don't know how far down this goes
but it was obviously a collecting point. They would have had a winch. Right up here you can
see where the the crank would have been at the top of those timbers there to haul up stuff.
There's the other ladder. That is also a metal ladder.
Let me get a better shot of that. There are two ladders in there!
There's a ladder there and that chain ladder
to the left. I can't see the bottom. It goes off at an angle down there.
Yes, the tracks just stopped here. There's something right here going up.
There's a ladder going up, and I feel air coming down this ladder.
Yes, there's air coming down here.
And there's a a timbered ceiling up there or a platform or something.
So, yes, there's a collapse here. The tunnel obviously kept on going
but it's been either collapsed or backfilled from that stope that
we just saw down the branching tunnel that goes up. So I feel air coming through here,
too. It looks like there's a little gap up there you probably could squeeze through. But
I'm not going to do that. Maybe I'll come back and do it, but not right now. So we are
going to head back back to the junction where Nick is waiting and then check out that other
main junction which he said goes even further than this one did. So there's a lot more to see!
Here's another one of these timbers that's been wired to the ventilation tubing and the air and
water lines. This one is still up in the air and hasn't fallen down like the other one was.
Traci thinks maybe that was just used to keep them together and in place. Probably so.
It's doing its job because these pipes haven't fallen except right back there.
We're headed back towards the junction.
So we're back at the main junction right inside the portal. Now we're going to take this
right tunnel and see where it goes.
Here's that little connecting tunnel that goes over to the other tunnel we were just in.
We just saw that from the other side.
Here's an old can and a valve.
There's a split here. That's a dead end right there.
We just were saying it feels like it's 40 degrees in here or something like that.
That hose is coming undone.
Lots of stuff in here. Yes, a lot of artifacts. Oh, here's a long, straight shot.
NICK: "It's interesting how much more you see when you're not filming." It's very hard to
walk and hold a light and a camera and film at the same time. I find that I keep losing my balance.
There's an old can oil can or gas can in that alcove.
Here is some kind of junction here or something. Well, it didn't end
this side and that looks like it might be a drop off.
So right here at this junction there's a lot of flow stone. You can see some here.
I'm not sure if that's a dead end
or if that continues onward. It might go to the right, so let me go up there and check that out.
Okay, this junction just stops right there, so it doesn't go anywhere.
So...
we'll head back out towards the portal. I think we've seen everything in here. So, yes,
let's go check something else. So here's a better shot of all this flow stone at this junction.
There's Nick and there's some flow stone behind him. Yes,
we're going to head back to the portal which is that way to the left.