This didn't show up on my phone. Oh man this is up my alley! You get a feeling when you go to these places. It's good to get them on video because they are slowly going away. Watch out for open shafts and stuff that will cut your tires. Keep it up and I'll be knocking on your door. 10:10 is an ore chute . 10:23 is ahead frame. Your assumption was correct on how it worked. Looks like there were multiple shafts. Cool Place!
I figured you'd be the man with the answers. I didn't know the politically correct (I hate that saying) terms for the mining structures but I guess my guesses were good enough. There's some old log cabins at the top of the mountain that I want to check out but we didn't have enough time. I guess I'll have to go back....with a hammock.
I'd love to spend days in these canyons. Supposedly there's several mines and left over towns in the hills. Multiple open mines are visible from the roads. It would be awesome to explore the mines and obviously dangerous. Which would make it more fun.
Nice ride as always! Did you guys continue up past Jacob city? You can just make out the first of the switch backs at 5:40ish in your video. If you stay left instead of dropping down into Jacob city, you follow some steep switchbacks up to commodore pass. There is a cool old hunting cabin in the saddle of the pass. Oh, by the way the trails up AF are all open and in great shape. Rode 157/252 the other day. I am off Tuesdays, lets head up there some time soon.
We stopped where the trail split and I went right to check out the old city. I wanted to head up to the cabin afterwards but everyone else started complaining about being hungry so we heading into Tooele and then home. I want to go back to check out the cabin/find some Grouse hunting grounds and ride the trail over to Ophir to see if it's still passable. The local in Ophir told me it's posted "No Trespassing" and "it's a horse trail" so I want to make sure he wasn't lying to me. If I find out he is I will hunt him down and throat punch him. We were up AF Canyon yesterday! GoatCabeza was in town and he wanted to go up to Tibble Fork to do some fly fishing. Got my hands all slimmed up and some dirt on the KLR. Let's hook up. I think I have your number in my phone??? If not, I'll send you a message.
***** No way, I was up there yesterday. I got up to the trail head about 4:30 and rode till about 6:30. I was just up on the ridge above you. I can confirm that the trail is posted and fenced on the Ophir side. I was up there last fall to see if I could make it up to commodore pass from the Ophir side. No dice, lots of sings and a chain link fence. Sounds great! Give me a call or drop me an email and we'll head up the canyon.
***** We just missed you then. We left Silver Lake Flat at 4:00 to make it home by 5:00. Good to know about the Ophir to Jacob City route. I still want to go check out the old cabin up there. Now I need to find other ghost towns/mining towns to go check out.
Scranton is an old mining area just south of 5 mile. Cool old ore chute and some cool vertical shafts that have grates across them that you can look down. Makes for a good afternoon ride. 40° 2.942'N 112° 12.049'W
***** Prrrfffffffff... if you had it in a video then it's definitely worthy! I don't have wunna dem Apple core laptoppy dealies... so I don't think I could use it.
That's pretty awesome! There is one ghost town I want to see near where I live, but I have to take a diving course first, because it now sits at the bottom of a lake in the Rockies. Ride safe.
up by the water tower there is a mine but yes a rzr 1000 will make it threw anytrail just dont go in the snow and theres a cabin at the top that is still standing and is open to the public
CenCalADV It's a Two Brother's M7 VALE exhaust (I believe). I had to install the silencer tip thingymobobber to drop the sound a tiny bit. It sounded like F16 jet fighters flying behind me without the tip installed. Rattled my brain. I priced shopped Amazon until I found a decent price and bought one. I love it.
is this on the west mountains? you should post this on utah dual sport so i can see where you guys went. actually i found it. well i roughly know where its at now.
Agreed. I wonder what the small city looked like when it was up and running. It's hard to imagine when all that left is a few wooden foudations, concrete foundations and one or two wooden structures. Supposedly there's a few log cabin at the top of the mountain but we didn't have enough time to find out. Next time maybe??
md123420 We weren't too high up at Jacob City. My KLR had stock jetting and didn't have any problems or start acting up until 8,000ft or higher. Biggest issue I had with the bike was keeping the air filter clean. I'd change my oil and had to change my air filter every 1,000 miles. Overkill on oil but it's super cheap and easy. The air filter was completely clogged at 1,000 miles with all the dirt riding I do.
Looks like a good place for a weekend night-party. ... 3 or 4 KLRs ... Beer ... some .22LR carbines ... USGI Sleep Systems. Cook some sausage and heat-up some beans.
***** Well ... The location offers some unique advantages, so long as nobody cares TOO much, if you are out there, over-night. .... You are in a big basin, so light and noise is somewhat contained (as is wind) ... There are plenty FLAT and SMOOTH floors and foundations and loose planks that would make a fairly comfortable bivouac. There are some foundation walls where you could set up some plinking targets and any moderate noise would be deflected by the 360 degree backstop. ... Just pack out your trash and cover your poop with a pile of rocks. ... As far as snakes and scorpions, go ?? I would recommend using a light patrol bag and ZIP IT !! ... Make sure reptiles are not snuggling with your body heat, in the morning and shake out your boots, real good. ... Them Pinto Beans give a whole new meaning to the "Power of BRRRRAP!". biv·ou·ac ˈbivo͞oˌak,ˈbivwak/ noun noun: bivouac; plural noun: bivouac a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.
phrankus2009 And ... After a few brews, break out the wrist-rocket sling-shots and have a tournament, ... Loser picks up all the beer cans and packs them out. And if you do "all that" ... Do a group, " man-fart salute" (in unison), in honor of your old pal, Phrankus ... As you hold your hands over your hearts and, then, count meteors, as you drift off (or pass out) under The Milky Way Galaxy.
This didn't show up on my phone. Oh man this is up my alley! You get a feeling when you go to these places. It's good to get them on video because they are slowly going away. Watch out for open shafts and stuff that will cut your tires. Keep it up and I'll be knocking on your door. 10:10 is an ore chute . 10:23 is ahead frame. Your assumption was correct on how it worked. Looks like there were multiple shafts. Cool Place!
I figured you'd be the man with the answers. I didn't know the politically correct (I hate that saying) terms for the mining structures but I guess my guesses were good enough. There's some old log cabins at the top of the mountain that I want to check out but we didn't have enough time. I guess I'll have to go back....with a hammock.
Love old mining sites. What a beautiful area. I could spend days up there just exploring the hillside. Thanks for sharing.
I'd love to spend days in these canyons. Supposedly there's several mines and left over towns in the hills. Multiple open mines are visible from the roads. It would be awesome to explore the mines and obviously dangerous. Which would make it more fun.
***** There's a recorded 17,000 abandoned mines in Utah, take your pick.
I feel like I'm on the wrong end of Utah. We'd have so much fun if I were up there man... every day off we'd be riding.
You are on the wrong end of Utah...only during summer though. The rest of the time it's me on the wrong end.
Love that kind of stuff.... You can just feel the history.
Nice ride as always! Did you guys continue up past Jacob city? You can just make out the first of the switch backs at 5:40ish in your video. If you stay left instead of dropping down into Jacob city, you follow some steep switchbacks up to commodore pass. There is a cool old hunting cabin in the saddle of the pass.
Oh, by the way the trails up AF are all open and in great shape. Rode 157/252 the other day. I am off Tuesdays, lets head up there some time soon.
We stopped where the trail split and I went right to check out the old city. I wanted to head up to the cabin afterwards but everyone else started complaining about being hungry so we heading into Tooele and then home. I want to go back to check out the cabin/find some Grouse hunting grounds and ride the trail over to Ophir to see if it's still passable. The local in Ophir told me it's posted "No Trespassing" and "it's a horse trail" so I want to make sure he wasn't lying to me. If I find out he is I will hunt him down and throat punch him.
We were up AF Canyon yesterday! GoatCabeza was in town and he wanted to go up to Tibble Fork to do some fly fishing. Got my hands all slimmed up and some dirt on the KLR. Let's hook up. I think I have your number in my phone??? If not, I'll send you a message.
***** No way, I was up there yesterday. I got up to the trail head about 4:30 and rode till about 6:30. I was just up on the ridge above you.
I can confirm that the trail is posted and fenced on the Ophir side. I was up there last fall to see if I could make it up to commodore pass from the Ophir side. No dice, lots of sings and a chain link fence.
Sounds great! Give me a call or drop me an email and we'll head up the canyon.
***** We just missed you then. We left Silver Lake Flat at 4:00 to make it home by 5:00. Good to know about the Ophir to Jacob City route. I still want to go check out the old cabin up there. Now I need to find other ghost towns/mining towns to go check out.
Scranton is an old mining area just south of 5 mile. Cool old ore chute and some cool vertical shafts that have grates across them that you can look down. Makes for a good afternoon ride. 40° 2.942'N 112° 12.049'W
What was that excellent music you had going at the end there?
Some hillbilly preprogramme music on my Apple laptop. Is it eveRide worthy?
***** Prrrfffffffff... if you had it in a video then it's definitely worthy! I don't have wunna dem Apple core laptoppy dealies... so I don't think I could use it.
eveRide Adventure Motorcycling
Sure you can, here's a link.
Dustbowl | iMovie Song-Music
Very Cool!
That's pretty awesome! There is one ghost town I want to see near where I live, but I have to take a diving course first, because it now sits at the bottom of a lake in the Rockies. Ride safe.
Really?! That would be freaking awesome to explore an underwater ghost town.
Very interesting place, love old stuff like that myself!
Any old mining history or ghost towns in Sweden?
***** Lots of old mines here, but not so many ghosts town.
Stop try'n to be as cool as me... Just because we ride the R's. Hehe. Lovin' this stuff!!! U da man!!
You like the old mining/ghost town stuff too eh?!
uhhhhh yeah...... :)
Dude You so need a metal detector and hunt that town!! Sluice. Pretty neat adventure!!
I'm sure if I had a metal detector up there the alarm sound would never end. I don't know if my bank account could handle me starting another hobby.
Should be no problem for a larger adventure bike right?
Pretty cool stuff there!!
Agreed. Thanks for stopping by.
up by the water tower there is a mine but yes a rzr 1000 will make it threw anytrail just dont go in the snow and theres a cabin at the top that is still standing and is open to the public
+Cole Ross I knew about the cabin up there but nobody wanted to ride up there that day. I'll head back there someday to check it out.
You were no where near Grafton, Ut. Grafton is off of SR 9 at Rockville a few miles from Zion. Where Butch Cassidy and Sundance were filmed.
What pipe do you have on that bike? Sounds great!
CenCalADV It's a Two Brother's M7 VALE exhaust (I believe). I had to install the silencer tip thingymobobber to drop the sound a tiny bit. It sounded like F16 jet fighters flying behind me without the tip installed. Rattled my brain. I priced shopped Amazon until I found a decent price and bought one. I love it.
is this on the west mountains? you should post this on utah dual sport so i can see where you guys went.
actually i found it. well i roughly know where its at now.
Find Stockton (South of Tooele). Go south east from Stockton and you'll find it. It's the canyon north of Ophir.
oh alright, ive been up into ophir and into some of its mines... ill never go under ground again. i really want to check out jacob now.
so cool to think about all the time people spend working their butts off there.
Agreed. I wonder what the small city looked like when it was up and running. It's hard to imagine when all that left is a few wooden foudations, concrete foundations and one or two wooden structures. Supposedly there's a few log cabin at the top of the mountain but we didn't have enough time to find out. Next time maybe??
Yeah I love the feeling of those old places, I got that feeling while watching you poke around especially down by the shaft.
The buildings didn't fall down. They were destroyed by a group of Boy Scouts sometime in the 80's. Great video.
By Boy Scouts....are you kidding me?! Why does that not surprise me?! How ridiculously unfortunate.
What muffler are you running? Or did you just drill out the stock muffler?
justwantoride Two Brothers M7 VALE with one of the sound tip things installed to drop the sound a little bit. It's very loud.
RIDE ON BROTHERS!
CHEERS;)
How's the klr do up that high
md123420 We weren't too high up at Jacob City. My KLR had stock jetting and didn't have any problems or start acting up until 8,000ft or higher. Biggest issue I had with the bike was keeping the air filter clean. I'd change my oil and had to change my air filter every 1,000 miles. Overkill on oil but it's super cheap and easy. The air filter was completely clogged at 1,000 miles with all the dirt riding I do.
did it get pretty rocky?
It's just a dirt road. Lots of traffic from 4 wheelers, Razors and motorcycles.
Looks like a good place for a weekend night-party. ...
3 or 4 KLRs ... Beer ... some .22LR carbines ... USGI Sleep Systems.
Cook some sausage and heat-up some beans.
That's what I'm talking about.
***** Well ... The location offers some unique advantages, so long as nobody cares TOO much, if you are out there, over-night. .... You are in a big basin, so light and noise is somewhat contained (as is wind) ... There are plenty FLAT and SMOOTH floors and foundations and loose planks that would make a fairly comfortable bivouac. There are some foundation walls where you could set up some plinking targets and any moderate noise would be deflected by the 360 degree backstop. ... Just pack out your trash and cover your poop with a pile of rocks. ... As far as snakes and scorpions, go ?? I would recommend using a light patrol bag and ZIP IT !! ... Make sure reptiles are not snuggling with your body heat, in the morning and shake out your boots, real good. ... Them Pinto Beans give a whole new meaning to the "Power of BRRRRAP!".
biv·ou·ac
ˈbivo͞oˌak,ˈbivwak/
noun
noun: bivouac; plural noun: bivouac
a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.
phrankus2009 And ... After a few brews, break out the wrist-rocket sling-shots and have a tournament, ... Loser picks up all the beer cans and packs them out.
And if you do "all that" ... Do a group, " man-fart salute" (in unison), in honor of your old pal, Phrankus ... As you hold your hands over your hearts and, then, count meteors, as you drift off (or pass out) under The Milky Way Galaxy.
***** ]
TRIPLE POST !!! ... Uhhh ... Just one last thing ... Please do not feed any beans to EVERIDE ... He has Sphincter Issues (shhh).
This is what its about, for me anyway. Exploring these "historic". I would like to get out to Gold Hill.
I love riding to old historic places like this. Half the reason for getting a dual sport motorcycle was to get to places like this all on one machine.
No doubt. I just picked up another KLR. Boy, was that steering loose. today the valves, tomorrow the WORLD! mwahahaha
8 mins of a stupid bike up a trail ... wow awesome