watch your step!

elkslayer338 · Post by **elkslayer338** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:41 am

Found mine shaft when on Elk hunt two years ago. Returned and put a aspen down in it. It was tucked next to a spruce and hard to see. during the summer with growth you could walk right into it. When I first found it it was while on a stalk. I was trailing a small herd of Elk so I was watching them when i creped up to that spruce.I moved one of the lower limbs to step behind the tree and darn there it was 4 foot wide and 20 foot deep.

nasty spot for it to be all flat Plato so you would not expect it.

Next year we will mark it on the GPS and inform the forest service or Fish and Game.

HighLander · Post by **HighLander** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:26 am

Man that would not be fun to fall down.

Post by **MuleyMadness** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:26 am

Yep crud, that would really stink. Who knows how deep it is, but from the looks of your video. To DEEP!

elkslayer338 · Post by **elkslayer338** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:34 pm

Here is a better Pic of the hole.

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:25 pm

ya that dont look to fun to fall down

Post by **Hiker** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:09 pm

Wow! That would be a serious situation. Unfortunately there's a lot of those uncovered mining holes in the west.

Post by **a_bow_nut** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:17 pm

It would amaze people if they knew how many open holes there are like that out in the hills.

For one summer that was all I did was fill in old mines like that for a company that I worked for.

The funny part was that you would walk past twenty other mines to just to fill in one.

Come to find out the state has to investigate every one of them to see if there is an active claim on it and how has that claim and to find out if they want that mine filled or not. Lots of paperwork just to fill a hole with some dirt. ???

Post by **waynedevore** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:08 pm

Interesting stuff, lots of history with those old mines.

Hiker, for sure plenty of old mine shafts in them there mountains.

I stumbled accross a crouple in Oct. The ground seemed unstable, so I did'nt get to close. Threw a softball size rock in. It clanged and banged its way down, could'nt hear when it hit bottom.

Not a place to be walking around in the dark

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:44 pm

ooooooo scary.

i dont like big holes.

Coloradobuck · Post by **Coloradobuck** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:49 pm

boy i'ed hate to fall in them holes
ronald