MINE

[RUGER No.1]

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[JoeVon]

I've seen some around here.  What area are you from?

[JoeVon]

That would be cool

[heavy hauler]

lots of coal mines out in tenino

[heavy hauler]

heres a pic

[gasman]

I have seen several mines around Morse creek and below hwy 410 (right at the gate that gets closed for the season).

Have not been in any of them yet though.

Even found some old mining cabins up Morse Creek also not the one on the main trail either, they were off the beaten path.

[cascademountainhunter]

ive been in some good sized caves around here but no mines

[clindsayrun]

There are mines all over up here around Oroville. Many have been blasted closed however there are still quite a few that you can walk in. To be perfectly honest I'm scared to go in many of them. A lot have water in them too, and I don't want to step in a hole.  I'll just stay out of them, thank you very much!

[heavy hauler]

there is alot of ways to die in a old mine.best to stay out

[Pathfinder101]

there is alot of ways to die in a old mine.best to stay out

 
Good advice.  WHen I was younger we used to screw around in a bunch of mines up in NE WA all the time.  When I think of some of the crap we used to do it makes my hair stand on end.  We used to shoot rats and bats in those things, lowered ourselves down on ropes, etc...
How does any male human survive to the age of 20?

[blindpig]

Good lookin pic hauler.  When I think of a mine shaft, that's what I think of.

[PacificNWhunter]

Wow, those are pretty cool pictures. I found an old ammo cache by my parents house one summer. Pretty cool to find stuff like that.

[muleysgirl13]

Hey Ruger those look like the Mines up at Reiter pit is that where you took those pics? If they are the second one is the only one I have stopped to really look at ...will NEVER go in (ever seen the movie decent?) anyways but when you stand just outside of it, it gets about 10* colder and it sucks the air from outside in its a really creep eery feeling.  That one is on the trail that zig-zags up the Hill/Mt

[BC CHASER]

There are mines all over up here around Oroville. Many have been blasted closed however there are still quite a few that you can walk in. To be perfectly honest I'm scared to go in many of them. A lot have water in them too, and I don't want to step in a hole.  I'll just stay out of them, thank you very much!

I have found a few up there while bear hunting.  One of them i got into about 30 yards and there were porkypine quills all over the ground so I headed back out.  In another I heard the unmistakable hum of many bees so I turned back.  I have a buddy in AZ who found one that had a shack built into it and was all reinforced for bears he thought.  It had a ton of old tools and an old big wood stove in it.  He got the door off the wood stove and is going to take mules back and try to get the whole thing out.  He said he doesn't know how they got it back so far it must have been a ton of work.  He has also found caves with Indian artifacts in them.