After exploring in the morning at the Murray Mine on Friday May 27th, Chris and Connie and I set off for another mine site in the afternoon. Once again we got landowners permission and hiked in to a site that was once part of the Western Monarch mine.
This one is not particularly impressive visually, but from a historical nerd's point of view, it was quite fascinating. We following an old utility line in to a small building. This building once contained all the electrical equipment associated with the power supply for the mine. There is not much left of it, and the equipment has been mostly vandalized and looted.
It was about a four mile hike over rough terrain to get to the building, but we really enjoyed being outside in nature. We also found an old car the had been rolled over the edge of the valley, and an old TV set dumped in a now dry slough. I managed to set the big camera up several times to document what we explored over the course of the afternoon. I was pretty tired by end of the day as I not only walked all those miles, with all the ups and downs, but I was carrying my view camera backpack and a big tripod the whole time. A nice cold beer and a steak dinner back at the shop in the evening was a pretty good wrap up for a tiring but very enjoyable day.
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