Imagine finding an abandoned town like this as a teenager; it would have been so cool. I wouldn't vandalize the place; I would consider moving in and building my own off-the-grid secret village. These kids could have gotten a free house, free tools, and basically, a free mountain getaway, and instead of building it up, the idiots destroyed it.
@Exploring the Unbeaten Path: While you all carelessly throw caution to the wind with no hard hats, proper foot gear, mask, and gloves as you do not know what you are about to contract while breathing and touching things. You are not invincible. If the ceiling lets go and kills or harms your friend, that is when it is too late. Now that I have my parental suggestions voiced, is this place monitored? Who are the properties owned by? Am I to understand that the 'toxic' claim is from the asbestos? This was only 39 years ago. It boggles my mind to see such catastrophic waste without a single care. As far as the typical useless and degenerative graffiti and smashed drywall everywhere, I would have to say that when consequences are of the absence, atrocities will ensue with certainty. If these vandals were caught and received 30 years imprisonment without parole, I doubt there would be this amount of appalling display of name stamping from dysfunctional buffoons. Anyway, really nice town, tons of potential, too bad something couldn't be done to house families after a clean up. There are ways to do it but I am not sure to what extent the asbestos is interfering with rebuilding. That is an X-Ray machine and it takes a lot of power and thus, heats. I would not doubt that sheets of lead are around that room. This I discovered in an abandoned hospital. Truck was salvageable. The yellow machine with a tank is a combo generator/compressor. That is salvageable too.
@@josephreagan9545 I could not have said it any better. I am a prepper and survivalist. This would be a great place for like minded people to start a survival colony. Hevenu Shalom Alecheim
We rode into and through this little town of Gilman on a motorcycle trip in '76 or '77 when it was still open and alive, the next time I came by a few years later it was gated up. Driving up the highway you'd miss it if you were just looking ahead, but coming down it was a stunning sight when it came into view. Thank you for this tour, it satisfies a long curiosity I've had about this beautiful spot. Sadly, it appears that some people only feel fulfilled it they can destroy something, the mindless destruction beggars the imagination...
Thanks for checking out Mark! Always weird to see a place suddenly gets abandoned. Wish I’d explored this place way earlier but since I travel all over the world it’s hard to choose!
I have seen many Ghost town videos made on this Ghost town from different youtubers. Yours is more detailed and thorough than other i have seen. Just awesome. Shalom Alecheim
22:07 - I am glad you pointed that out - I noticed that as well. The asbestos is stable in that form and of little danger - it's only when it gets shredded or powderized that it becomes dangerous to organic life.
I grew up in Eagle Vail and my father knew someone who had a key to one of the locks on the gates closing Gilman from Hwy. 24. So, we went up there one day in the late 1980s. We toured around some of the abandoned houses but didn't stay more than an hour or two due to the asbestos and the fact that we didn't want to get busted. A fascinating trip. This brought back some memories.
Seen a lot of urbex from around the world. I've noticed something, not sure if it's just me or.... Why do abandoned places in America almost always seem trashed beyond recognition? Every single wall and door seems to be vandalized and tagged (with really shitty graffiti) I understand how&why that happens in the large cities but even remote places totally wrecked? Would be great if people would stop doing that.
It depends on the place! I have visited countless of places in the U.S which were not trashed. You just have to be there for the taggers and scrappers. In this case the location is too known and too long abandoned. A lot of the untouched stuff in the U.S I have to keep offline. But answering your question… this happens worldwide except in some Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.. there they have a lot of respect for other’s property
So I grew up in Colorado and have been to in this area many times. I've always wanted to explore this town. thanks for sharing! Part of the reason it was abandoned whs their water source got polluted from mining.
@@CaptRich-bi3gp Nowhere near. Engineer Pass is by Telluride. Gilman is off Highway 24 about halfway between Vail and Leadville, just north of Red Cliff.
I have driven by Gilman quite a few times on my way to go skiing. It's very ominous when all of the homes and other structures are enveloped in 6 + feet of snow. Each time we'd drive by I would ask my dad what the story was again, and he always told be that it was quickly abandoned due to toxic pollution from the mines. That always made me imagine that aside from the deterioration due to weather/water and time, most things were left just as they had been when the order to evacuate was given - similar to Chernobyl. It is disappointing that so much of it has been vandalized, but I have always wanted to see what was there for myself, and I'm glad you were able to do so and share it before the condition there worsens. Growing up in Colorado there are a lot of "Ghost Towns" to choose from, but I think this one fascinated me most because it was modern, and easier to imagine the lives of the people who lived - and had to leave there. That and the inaccessibility - I had always been under the impression that the environmental threat was still there and it was not safe to visit, although I had interpreted the threat as a noxious gas that was still creeping out from the mines. Another factor to make it seem even spookier!
I lived in Longmont, CO from 1988 to 1989. I did alot hiking in the mountains too. Nothing beats the Rocky Mountains Range in my opinion. Even John Denver liked it so much he wrote the song "Rocky Mountain High".
Absolutely! I'm from Amarillo; the Rockies were practically our backyard, just have to go uphill for a bit. Presently I'm living in the foothills of the Smokies, miniscule compared to the Rocky Mountain Range.
My older brother lived in New Zealand for two years as a professional sound technician, to set up sound for the bands that would tour there. He told me that he settled in Colorado, because it had the best representation of natural beauty in the states that he witnessed, while exploring New Zealand. He has lived in Colorado for about 40 years, currently in Boulder, but lived in Eldora and Nederland for about 25 years. There was the Caribou sound studio in Colorado. One time I visited him, and he was living in England Dan's cabin that he had for many years. Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys, had a place there, as well. My brother was friends with him. Carl gave his drum set to my brother before he passed away too soon, in 1997.
So neat, we just got back from Colorado. We stayed in Victor Colorado. I recognize one of those mines in the intro. We hiked to it in Goldfield. Not sure if you made it to Cripple Creek but there is a Goldmine you can tour, they take you down a vertical shaft 1000ft.
Wow - the scenery is absolutely breathtaking!!! I really don't understand why there are those who go in and trash/graffiti empty buildings - we need to treasure the past, because without a past, we have no future. Great video, and thanks for sharing it with us.
Toffe locaties in Colorado! Was een mooie trip :) Zo zonde dat alles gevandaliseerd word in dit dorpje... Wat was het mooi geweest als alles nog was zoals het 38 jaar geleden was achter gelaten. Het mijn gebouw was wel tof met die mandjes!
There were lots of places that seemed interesting, but those locker rooms with the view to the mining shaft had an impeding feeling of anxiousness and dispair in the air that I can’t say existed in other parts of the tour. I feel many miners dreading the long cold hours during the winter and judging by how many X-rays existed, how many readied themselves feeling deeply ill, clinging to their next paycheque. Thanks for sharing.
2:39 that blue house has always stayed in my memory. I stopped and took pictures of the town on my way down to Minturn about 15 years ago. This place has always fascinated me, thanks for sharing your exploration. P.S. there are only 3 things in life that are certain: 1.Death 2.Taxes 3.Penis graffiti on abandoned buildings
Thanks - enjoyed this a lot. I lived and worked at Gilman during the 1970's. This is one of my favorites that I have seen. Quit drinking that beer during the boycott of the 70's-never switched back.
Hey Bob thank you for sharing even though I live next door in New Mexico have not visited some of these places before but it's really interesting to see abandoned towns it makes you think how they all lived 😊❤NICE
What a beautiful place and stunning views. What a waste. Don't know why idiots have to put graffiti everywhere. Thank you for sharing this. Very interesting 🙂👍
The dog park in my little Colorado mountain town is absolutely HUGE!! Acres and acres!! The land was generously donated by the city!! And it borders a gentle stretch of shallow river perfect for dog swimming!! And it has at least three known rattlesnake nests!! And it was built directly on the ("remediated") former site of a uranium mine!! 😂🤣
Coors Brewery was non-union so that's what the union issue was. I was in Gilman in the early 90's, it was amazing... sad to see what has happened and sorry you guys couldn't have seen it then, it was literally like they had just closed the doors, everything was still in place, stores stocked, really something that you would have appreciated.
That hard, white sheet that sounds like slate, that you said "looks like a wood structure" is an asbestos sheet used for siding. My grandmother's house was covered with them.
I hiked down into the Gilman mine site one time with my Dad! Really cool old operation with a ton of massive equipment left behind, I just couldn’t believe they left so much behind!
Whaooou ! what beautiful landscapes....I imagne that a community of people could come-back living there...with all you need : school, doctor, entertainement.....many thansk for sharing !
Hey Mark, thanks for checking out. This was by far the shittiest part😂 The industrial part:th-cam.com/video/CCXuJJiQDfA/w-d-xo.html And this was the holy grail of the trip: th-cam.com/video/nG9K-a0occE/w-d-xo.html
Pretty sad to see that place so ran down and vandalized. in 2010-11 we snuck in there and did some exploring in the middle of the night. when we were there the xray room still have filing cabinets full of xrays. glad i got to explore it before it was in the shape it is in now. still cool though. thanks for sharing
@@frankiesaotoandmore5872 - I agree. And wish things like this did not get destroyed by vandals... or the ravages of time. To keep it at a certain threshold requires input of labor, i.e. someone volunteers or is paid to keep things going.
Hi, such a cool explore guys, it is so interesting seeing things from a different era still sat where they were last put down. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Thanks a lot Sue😇 Yes, always nice to walK through old places and see how everything was like back then. Even the graphic design of an item..Wish I was here 15 years earlier though.. 😊
The D&RGW railroad Tennessee Pass line runs through the canyon below Gilman. The siding serving the Eagle mine was called Belden Siding. The tracks are still there, next to the dirt road that runs between the mine buildings and the Eagle river. If the rail line is ever reactivated, trains will pass through the area again, just across the Eagle river from the abandoned Eagle mine. The items you found in the buildings belong in a museum instead of wasting away in those abandoned structures.
Die Nummerntafel bei Min 27.50 , So genannte Markennummern, Jeder Bergmann hatte eine Marke mit seiner Nummer. Bei Einfahrt in die Grube gab er sie ab, so konnte der Betreiber sehen wer in der Grube ist. Weiterhin bekomm man beim Vorzeigen der Marke auch Essen und seine Geräte (Grubenlampe etc). Zu den Kauen, Waschräumen, die Körbe bei den Spinden waren (Weisskaue) vermutlich dazu da, verschmutze und Feuchte Strassenkleidung (Schuhe, etc ) aufzuhängen, damit sie im Spind nicht die anderen Sachen beschmutzen und voll Muffeln. Die leeren wurden dann in den Spind geschlossen, weil leere Körbe an der Decke sehr gerne pendelten, und sich mit anderen verhakten. In der Schwarzkaue wurde in der Regel die Komplette Kleidung an den Haken gehangen, zum Trocknen und lüften.
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I am very happy that you decided to open to a greater audience by switching from netherlands (your early videos) to english. And I appreciate your development in filming, editing & narrating more into cinematic direction... (I'm a big fan of your collegues from BWT and cinematic, calm style of capturing images and moods) Your Locations are very special and outstanding (No other Urbex Channel provides...). Keep up the progress and thank you for inviting us to your adventures. Much love.
Yes its really depressing, it looks like every known lost place in a city. Packed with ugly and meaningless graffitis, only 5 % of some the graffits are actually nice. And all of this purposely damage to the buildings, all made by teens probably. After all those years of visiting lost places its a known image to me, but i still get mad at it. Great video thanks for your work, keep it up.
Thanks for checking out! Normally I’m there before any tagger shows up😂 Went to an epic underground mine in Colorado which was in a pristine condition. Did you see that episode too?
it's sad to see all the graffiti but i'm sure a lot of us can look beyond it and still enjoy the beauty that was once there. thanks for another great adventure
34:50 - thanks for posting the name of the vehicle. I was going to do so if no one else had. My brother had one just like this one. Darn unlined cylinders made it burn oil like crazy. Dumb design on the engine, however I loved the styling of the Vega. One day back in the '70's a friend and I flagged down a passing Vega sedan which a fellow had hot-rodded and put in a huge tricked out engine... the power-to-weight ratio was awesome and that thing was fast, according to the driver/owner. Shook like a MF, though. Just my 2¢ to add to the story...
The graffiti is like dogs pissing on a tree or car tire to mark their territory then scuttling away before they get caught as to the destruction its beyond my comprehension hello from Australia great explore in both parts
Looks like some of these buildings are still sound enough to live in! So much waste but not surprised it's all been left! Bob we didn't get to see much of ur smiling face, too bad, Colorado has been good for ur explores, Americans should see ur pretty smile! 💙💕💜❤️
Thanks a lot Linda☺️ For us it was great to find a lot of old stuff! Many times everything gets emptied so you have to use a lot of imagination. I’ll be more in the picture in the next episodes, sometimes because of the conditions I don’t switch holding the camera…. but should be still in the episode indeed☺️☺️
30:54 the chains with hooks & baskets is where you hung your clean clothes , you pulled them up high during your shift. This NJ Zinc Co had their home plant in Palmerton, PA another toxic site that became a superfund cleanup. tons of pollution & toxic chemicals is what fueled the industrial revolution and provisions for world wars. There are still so many toxic waste sites all over the US, so many it would make your head spin. My home town had a superfund cleanup, Westinghouse electric buried deadly PCB in steel 55 gal drums & as the drums rusted out they unleashed the dioxin PCB into the soil & near by Turtle Creek. The Westinghouse donated this land to our towns athletic dept and our baseball Little League fields were on top of all those rupturing containers. Was it bad enough to bury this poison but to donate the land so your employees children play on top of it. You really gotta hate these company's that made billions on the suffering of their employees, and then they build libraries so they are remembered as an American philanthropist & not the true criminals they really were.
The Coors beer boycott started in 1966 and went to 1987. By the 1970s, the boycott covered much of Coors' market area and involved Hispanic, African American, and women's rights groups, as well as labor unions and LGBT activists.
It is a mining shaft elevator. I can assure you it goes down a long ways nearing 400 - 650 feet and sometimes much farther down..I use to work for INCO which is the nickel/copper mining and smelter capitol in the world which is located in Ontario. There are two types of layouts -- a) Mine elevator (single car) layout and (b) a dual mine cage layout that you see here. It can be dirty, dank, and so dark, that you can't see a hand in front of your face apparently without a light when you step onto the 1,400-metre level of the Creighton mine shaft. I was thankfully in the smelter with my two bros while pop and oldest bro were in the mines. Also, all men/women are not called by their names but instead are given designated numbers as you see on the tag board. The shower and hanging of clothes basket is called the DRY. You hoist your basket up high so no thievery can occur, showers are powered on at end of shift or when directed to turn on by the acting shift boss. You are then bused out to the parking lot after passing security. Our DRY was massive and this is certainly a scaled down puny version as they are using lockers. Besides, this is a totally different type of mine.
I love ghost towns. This was a good one. Would like to seen exploring a couple resident homes. I really like this channel. You guys do a great job. Graffiti artists suck big ones.
As a child I went a ghost town close Great falls, like to see it if anything left . Watching a huge beautiful storm way miles away cliffs specifically drop rain vertical from cloud awesome I'll treasure memories.
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Imagine finding an abandoned town like this as a teenager; it would have been so cool.
I wouldn't vandalize the place; I would consider moving in and building my own off-the-grid secret village.
These kids could have gotten a free house, free tools, and basically, a free mountain getaway, and instead of building it up, the idiots destroyed it.
22:10 thats asbestos siding or shingles
@Exploring the Unbeaten Path: While you all carelessly throw caution to the wind with no hard hats, proper foot gear, mask, and gloves as you do not know what you are about to contract while breathing and touching things. You are not invincible. If the ceiling lets go and kills or harms your friend, that is when it is too late. Now that I have my parental suggestions voiced, is this place monitored? Who are the properties owned by? Am I to understand that the 'toxic' claim is from the asbestos? This was only 39 years ago. It boggles my mind to see such catastrophic waste without a single care.
As far as the typical useless and degenerative graffiti and smashed drywall everywhere, I would have to say that when consequences are of the absence, atrocities will ensue with certainty. If these vandals were caught and received 30 years imprisonment without parole, I doubt there would be this amount of appalling display of name stamping from dysfunctional buffoons. Anyway, really nice town, tons of potential, too bad something couldn't be done to house families after a clean up. There are ways to do it but I am not sure to what extent the asbestos is interfering with rebuilding. That is an X-Ray machine and it takes a lot of power and thus, heats. I would not doubt that sheets of lead are around that room. This I discovered in an abandoned hospital. Truck was salvageable. The yellow machine with a tank is a combo generator/compressor. That is salvageable too.
@@josephreagan9545 I could not have said it any better. I am a prepper and survivalist. This would be a great place for like minded people to start a survival colony. Hevenu Shalom Alecheim
We rode into and through this little town of Gilman on a motorcycle trip in '76 or '77 when it was still open and alive, the next time I came by a few years later it was gated up. Driving up the highway you'd miss it if you were just looking ahead, but coming down it was a stunning sight when it came into view. Thank you for this tour, it satisfies a long curiosity I've had about this beautiful spot. Sadly, it appears that some people only feel fulfilled it they can destroy something, the mindless destruction beggars the imagination...
Thanks for checking out Mark! Always weird to see a place suddenly gets abandoned. Wish I’d explored this place way earlier but since I travel all over the world it’s hard to choose!
I have seen many Ghost town videos made on this Ghost town from different youtubers. Yours is more detailed and thorough than other i have seen. Just awesome. Shalom Alecheim
That shed full of "tiles" was in fact asbestos siding for a house. Don't breathe that stuff in lol
22:07 - I am glad you pointed that out - I noticed that as well. The asbestos is stable in that form and of little danger - it's only when it gets shredded or powderized that it becomes dangerous to organic life.
I grew up in Eagle Vail and my father knew someone who had a key to one of the locks on the gates closing Gilman from Hwy. 24. So, we went up there one day in the late 1980s. We toured around some of the abandoned houses but didn't stay more than an hour or two due to the asbestos and the fact that we didn't want to get busted. A fascinating trip. This brought back some memories.
I live around the mountain in Vail and have always wanted to explore Gilman. Thanks for these videos!
Thanks ! Did you see the other episodes also? (Including the underground part?)
Seen a lot of urbex from around the world. I've noticed something, not sure if it's just me or....
Why do abandoned places in America almost always seem trashed beyond recognition? Every single wall and door seems to be vandalized and tagged (with really shitty graffiti)
I understand how&why that happens in the large cities but even remote places totally wrecked? Would be great if people would stop doing that.
It depends on the place! I have visited countless of places in the U.S which were not trashed. You just have to be there for the taggers and scrappers. In this case the location is too known and too long abandoned. A lot of the untouched stuff in the U.S I have to keep offline. But answering your question… this happens worldwide except in some Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.. there they have a lot of respect for other’s property
Definitely your bias dude
It's the idiot teenagers, they go in and trash a place just for "fun." So stupid.
To me its like dogs pissing on a tree the tagging and people need to destroy things is beyond my comprehension hello from Australia
It's the same in Estonia. It's the people...
So I grew up in Colorado and have been to in this area many times. I've always wanted to explore this town. thanks for sharing! Part of the reason it was abandoned whs their water source got polluted from mining.
How far would this be from Engineer Pass?
@@CaptRich-bi3gp Nowhere near. Engineer Pass is by Telluride. Gilman is off Highway 24 about halfway between Vail and Leadville, just north of Red Cliff.
I have driven by Gilman quite a few times on my way to go skiing. It's very ominous when all of the homes and other structures are enveloped in 6 + feet of snow. Each time we'd drive by I would ask my dad what the story was again, and he always told be that it was quickly abandoned due to toxic pollution from the mines. That always made me imagine that aside from the deterioration due to weather/water and time, most things were left just as they had been when the order to evacuate was given - similar to Chernobyl. It is disappointing that so much of it has been vandalized, but I have always wanted to see what was there for myself, and I'm glad you were able to do so and share it before the condition there worsens. Growing up in Colorado there are a lot of "Ghost Towns" to choose from, but I think this one fascinated me most because it was modern, and easier to imagine the lives of the people who lived - and had to leave there. That and the inaccessibility - I had always been under the impression that the environmental threat was still there and it was not safe to visit, although I had interpreted the threat as a noxious gas that was still creeping out from the mines. Another factor to make it seem even spookier!
I lived in Longmont, CO from 1988 to 1989. I did alot hiking in the mountains too.
Nothing beats the Rocky Mountains Range in my opinion.
Even John Denver liked it so much he wrote the song "Rocky Mountain High".
Absolutely! I'm from Amarillo; the Rockies were practically our backyard, just have to go uphill for a bit.
Presently I'm living in the foothills of the Smokies, miniscule compared to the Rocky Mountain Range.
My older brother lived in New Zealand for two years as a professional sound technician, to set up sound for the bands that would tour there. He told me that he settled in Colorado, because it had the best representation of natural beauty in the states that he witnessed, while exploring New Zealand. He has lived in Colorado for about 40 years, currently in Boulder, but lived in Eldora and Nederland for about 25 years. There was the Caribou sound studio in Colorado. One time I visited him, and he was living in England Dan's cabin that he had for many years. Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys, had a place there, as well. My brother was friends with him. Carl gave his drum set to my brother before he passed away too soon, in 1997.
Thank you for being respectful to the places you go. Never understood why people feel the need to ruin places like this.
> Thank you for exploring the Co. mines and showing us around. Hope you enjoyed the good things and have a safe trip to your next explore.
Thanks Carl, we had a great time! I’ll be back in the U.S soon☺️
So neat, we just got back from Colorado. We stayed in Victor Colorado. I recognize one of those mines in the intro. We hiked to it in Goldfield. Not sure if you made it to Cripple Creek but there is a Goldmine you can tour, they take you down a vertical shaft 1000ft.
Wow - the scenery is absolutely breathtaking!!! I really don't understand why there are those who go in and trash/graffiti empty buildings - we need to treasure the past, because without a past, we have no future. Great video, and thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks a lot Colleen! The scenery was amazing, also in the lower part 😇 Really added a lot to the experience!
You know nothing about being a kid growing up in an isolated place like this.
Young people party in abandoned old places.
Toffe locaties in Colorado! Was een mooie trip :) Zo zonde dat alles gevandaliseerd word in dit dorpje... Wat was het mooi geweest als alles nog was zoals het 38 jaar geleden was achter gelaten. Het mijn gebouw was wel tof met die mandjes!
Yes, helaas kan ik mijzelf niet klonen😀 gelukkig waren er nog een paar echte highlights! De ondergrondse mijn al gezien?
There were lots of places that seemed interesting, but those locker rooms with the view to the mining shaft had an impeding feeling of anxiousness and dispair in the air that I can’t say existed in other parts of the tour. I feel many miners dreading the long cold hours during the winter and judging by how many X-rays existed, how many readied themselves feeling deeply ill, clinging to their next paycheque. Thanks for sharing.
Working in there must have been hell.. guess they got a decent paycheck back in the days
If it was fully abandoned back in '84, it's amazingly well preserved nearly 40 years on.
For 40 years.. it could have been way worse… most places are already totally looted or burned to the ground
Bellissima serie si esplorazioni! Grazie per averla condivisa, ciao Bob saluti dal Italia ✌🏻🙋🏻
2:39 that blue house has always stayed in my memory. I stopped and took pictures of the town on my way down to Minturn about 15 years ago. This place has always fascinated me, thanks for sharing your exploration.
P.S. there are only 3 things in life that are certain:
1.Death
2.Taxes
3.Penis graffiti on abandoned buildings
Thanks for checking out Wade! And yes… aways those penisses😅 luckily I’m there before there is any graffiti in most places…
Thanks - enjoyed this a lot. I lived and worked at Gilman during the 1970's. This is one of my favorites that I have seen. Quit drinking that beer during the boycott of the 70's-never switched back.
Hi Kathy, I made more (and better) episodes here! Check the channel for more. Really loved the beautiful area 😍
Thanks for sharing your travels.
Wow, those views are spectacular!!!
Hey Bob thank you for sharing even though I live next door in New Mexico have not visited some of these places before but it's really interesting to see abandoned towns it makes you think how they all lived 😊❤NICE
Those big stacks of tiles could have been made with asbestos.
Be careful around that stuff and do not create dust.
Amazing scenery up there .
Thanks
Hey Guys I really enjoyed both postings you guys did a good job of videoing the buildings n such.. Thank You 👍👍✌️🍻👋
What a beautiful place and stunning views. What a waste. Don't know why idiots have to put graffiti everywhere. Thank you for sharing this. Very interesting 🙂👍
What difference does it make? Couple more years and the buildings will be gone.
Destruction by the mindless, it's going on all over the world. These buildings are now useless when they could've been rescued and housed people.
It's the idiot teenagers. They would f..k up a mayonnaise sandwich.
I've already caught your second part of your video, and again I loved it. I really hope you do more videos like this. Priceless.
Thanks, I will be in the States again soon.
Beautiful video once again, the quality never drops 👍thank you Bob
The dog park in my little Colorado mountain town is absolutely HUGE!! Acres and acres!! The land was generously donated by the city!! And it borders a gentle stretch of shallow river perfect for dog swimming!! And it has at least three known rattlesnake nests!! And it was built directly on the ("remediated") former site of a uranium mine!! 😂🤣
Mmmm spicy water
All it would take is for you buy a ginger counter and you could remove those quotes. You know it's clean or you wouldn't hang out there
@@sparksmcgee6641 A "ginger counter"? Is that a device for counting redheads?
It is sad that so many people live to destroy instead of just observing the history.
god damn vandals!!!!! imagine all these placed without vandals wow huh? it would look its frozen in time... love your explores greetings from sweden.
Coors Brewery was non-union so that's what the union issue was. I was in Gilman in the early 90's, it was amazing... sad to see what has happened and sorry you guys couldn't have seen it then, it was literally like they had just closed the doors, everything was still in place, stores stocked, really something that you would have appreciated.
Coors was a non union company. They treated their employees well back in the day.
Love the joy you get, from walking thru history. Just very VERY sad, that people have to tare it up. Spray paint it.
Yes, most places we visit are luckily not vandalized like this !
Imagine how much history will be inaccessible to future generations of similar explorers due to the digitalization of daily life.
Great to see these places it makes me want to go to visit there myself
Thanks for showing this
All the best from the UK
Thanks Jonathan. In the next episodes you’ll see some local explores😄(Wales and the UK)
Beatiful,Amazing Video.Thank You!
Notice the extent of the sprinkler system. I guess after the fire they weren’t taking any chances
Well noticed and thanks for checking out!
That hard, white sheet that sounds like slate, that you said "looks like a wood structure" is an asbestos sheet used for siding. My grandmother's house was covered with them.
22:07 - asbestos tiles used for siding
I hiked down into the Gilman mine site one time with my Dad! Really cool old operation with a ton of massive equipment left behind, I just couldn’t believe they left so much behind!
Amazing location also
I can imagine how creepy visiting this place is on a foggy or very cloudy day!!! Another great movie-like adventure!
Thanks again Morgan😄 Next week a cool and funny mission where we spend the night and explore a fort located in the sea.
Whaooou ! what beautiful landscapes....I imagne that a community of people could come-back living there...with all you need : school, doctor, entertainement.....many thansk for sharing !
What A Fantastic Trip to that Past! I am so surprised not to see security! Perhaps some aerial! I am hooked!
Hey Mark, thanks for checking out.
This was by far the shittiest part😂
The industrial part:th-cam.com/video/CCXuJJiQDfA/w-d-xo.html
And this was the holy grail of the trip:
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This video made me want to beat some taggers. I think that might be a worthy hobby.
Yeah normally I don’t even want to make videos in such tagged up places, but thought it would be nice in this series with the lower part of the town.
Thanks for sharing.I lived in Colorado and never saw this place. Super interesting, but the graffiti is heartbreaking.
Pretty sad to see that place so ran down and vandalized. in 2010-11 we snuck in there and did some exploring in the middle of the night. when we were there the xray room still have filing cabinets full of xrays. glad i got to explore it before it was in the shape it is in now. still cool though. thanks for sharing
Its so very sad to see the history just getting destroyed 😢.
No profit in keeping it. If there was money to be made, things would be different, I'd wager.
@@samvalentine3206 its not always about the money
@@frankiesaotoandmore5872 - I agree. And wish things like this did not get destroyed by vandals... or the ravages of time. To keep it at a certain threshold requires input of labor, i.e. someone volunteers or is paid to keep things going.
Hi, such a cool explore guys, it is so interesting seeing things from a different era still sat where they were last put down.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Thanks a lot Sue😇 Yes, always nice to walK through old places and see how everything was like back then. Even the graphic design of an item..Wish I was here 15 years earlier though.. 😊
11:36 the ghost let one slip.
LOL!
Some of the papers should be in a museum.
The D&RGW railroad Tennessee Pass line runs through the canyon below Gilman. The siding serving the Eagle mine was called Belden Siding. The tracks are still there, next to the dirt road that runs between the mine buildings and the Eagle river. If the rail line is ever reactivated, trains will pass through the area again, just across the Eagle river from the abandoned Eagle mine. The items you found in the buildings belong in a museum instead of wasting away in those abandoned structures.
great video, i just wish you had done a couple of different types of residential buildings as a record of the era
This is literally like right where I was born and grew up haha brings back memories
Such an epic area to grow up and to explore as a kid! Much better than in an urban area
At 22:12 that tile like wooden structure was infact asbestos siding for houses. My Grandmother's house had those exact same kinds.
nice explore. beautiful landscape
Hey Bob, at 22m.12s those are asbestos sheets😬. Great footage👍
Thanks for the info 😄damn asbestos
22:11 Asbestos shingles for covering outside walls of a house. We had the same ones on our house in about 1958.
Die Nummerntafel bei Min 27.50 , So genannte Markennummern, Jeder Bergmann hatte eine Marke mit seiner Nummer. Bei Einfahrt in die Grube gab er sie ab, so konnte der Betreiber sehen wer in der Grube ist. Weiterhin bekomm man beim Vorzeigen der Marke auch Essen und seine Geräte (Grubenlampe etc). Zu den Kauen, Waschräumen, die Körbe bei den Spinden waren (Weisskaue) vermutlich dazu da, verschmutze und Feuchte Strassenkleidung (Schuhe, etc ) aufzuhängen, damit sie im Spind nicht die anderen Sachen beschmutzen und voll Muffeln. Die leeren wurden dann in den Spind geschlossen, weil leere Körbe an der Decke sehr gerne pendelten, und sich mit anderen verhakten. In der Schwarzkaue wurde in der Regel die Komplette Kleidung an den Haken gehangen, zum Trocknen und lüften.
Thank you for the detail
Bruh, those tiles you were tapping on that you called a " wooden structure " were asbestos tiles used for external cladding on builings back then.
Great🙃Thanks for the info!
Thank you for adding German subtitles... 🥰so I can show your videos to my mom also... Grüße aus Deutschland.
Ich auch komme auch aus Deutschland Baden Würtemberg
@@pedieh7137 ...gleiches Bundesland... ich komm aus dem Odenwald.
Kein problem! Ich spreche auch Deutsch aber nicht so gut für ein “episode”
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I am very happy that you decided to open to a greater audience by switching from netherlands (your early videos) to english. And I appreciate your development in filming, editing & narrating more into cinematic direction... (I'm a big fan of your collegues from BWT and cinematic, calm style of capturing images and moods) Your Locations are very special and outstanding (No other Urbex Channel provides...). Keep up the progress and thank you for inviting us to your adventures. Much love.
@@tomturelur9191 komme aus Heidelberg
Yes its really depressing, it looks like every known lost place in a city. Packed with ugly and meaningless graffitis, only 5 % of some the graffits are actually nice. And all of this purposely damage to the buildings, all made by teens probably. After all those years of visiting lost places its a known image to me, but i still get mad at it.
Great video thanks for your work, keep it up.
Thanks for checking out! Normally I’m there before any tagger shows up😂 Went to an epic underground mine in Colorado which was in a pristine condition. Did you see that episode too?
it's sad to see all the graffiti but i'm sure a lot of us can look beyond it and still enjoy the beauty that was once there. thanks for another great adventure
Thanks Again Matt! It’s still an incredible place
I think it's a shame to destroy it and tagging it all!
19:30 It's a compressor
Excellent video
Now I know where my next project car (Vega wagon ) is 👍
34:50 - thanks for posting the name of the vehicle. I was going to do so if no one else had. My brother had one just like this one. Darn unlined cylinders made it burn oil like crazy. Dumb design on the engine, however I loved the styling of the Vega. One day back in the '70's a friend and I flagged down a passing Vega sedan which a fellow had hot-rodded and put in a huge tricked out engine... the power-to-weight ratio was awesome and that thing was fast, according to the driver/owner. Shook like a MF, though. Just my 2¢ to add to the story...
I came thru here in 2007 when I was a kid and yeah it was still destroyed back then
Very nice Bob!!!🏚🏚
Thanks Brenda ! Hope you will like the series. In november I’ll be back exploring in the U.S. Now looking where to go😁
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I'm sure I will love it💜
My dad worked in that mine new jerseys, Inc.
For 23 years under ground
The graffiti is like dogs pissing on a tree or car tire to mark their territory then scuttling away before they get caught as to the destruction its beyond my comprehension hello from Australia great explore in both parts
that old truck was probably like new in 1984 when the mine closed
*_Das war wieder super, besten dank dafür_*
Looks like some of these buildings are still sound enough to live in! So much waste but not surprised it's all been left! Bob we didn't get to see much of ur smiling face, too bad, Colorado has been good for ur explores, Americans should see ur pretty smile! 💙💕💜❤️
Thanks a lot Linda☺️ For us it was great to find a lot of old stuff! Many times everything gets emptied so you have to use a lot of imagination. I’ll be more in the picture in the next episodes, sometimes because of the conditions I don’t switch holding the camera…. but should be still in the episode indeed☺️☺️
With the electric they are probably buying at HV so most likely it’s for the entire village and the mine
Today is may 9, 2023 and I wat cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccched your video, Great stuff, Keep up the good work.
"Core Samples" that's the name.
"-Some kind of tile. -A wooden structure." (Scratches his finger along the surface.) That my gentlemen was the asbestos!
Very cool, thanx!
it looked like one of the held up x-rays had some cloudy looking lungs...that might not be good for that guy.
:(
Sad for those workers indeed😮💨
Incredible
Thanks for checking out! Did you also see the underground part!? That was the holy grail🤩
30:54 the chains with hooks & baskets is where you hung your clean clothes , you pulled them up high during your shift. This NJ Zinc Co had their home plant in Palmerton, PA another toxic site that became a superfund cleanup. tons of pollution & toxic chemicals is what fueled the industrial revolution and provisions for world wars. There are still so many toxic waste sites all over the US, so many it would make your head spin. My home town had a superfund cleanup, Westinghouse electric buried deadly PCB in steel 55 gal drums & as the drums rusted out they unleashed the dioxin PCB into the soil & near by Turtle Creek. The Westinghouse donated this land to our towns athletic dept and our baseball Little League fields were on top of all those rupturing containers. Was it bad enough to bury this poison but to donate the land so your employees children play on top of it. You really gotta hate these company's that made billions on the suffering of their employees, and then they build libraries so they are remembered as an American philanthropist & not the true criminals they really were.
If you think about it graffiti and hieroglyphs are effectively the same thing. These 'tags' are a mix of magic and function.
Those tiles 22 min in could very well be astbestoscladden tiles. ;)
Awesome video
that was a compressor that yellow thing with the water tank on the front.? great Explore men.
19:26 - yes, a compressor and the tank was an air storage tank.
Thanks Bob and friend for the wonderful work.
thanks Bob, keep up the great content.
22:10 asbestos shakes??
A few other said the same so confirmed!
The Coors beer boycott started in 1966 and went to 1987. By the 1970s, the boycott covered much of Coors' market area and involved Hispanic, African American, and women's rights groups, as well as labor unions and LGBT activists.
It is a mining shaft elevator. I can assure you it goes down a long ways nearing 400 - 650 feet and sometimes much farther down..I use to work for INCO which is the nickel/copper mining and smelter capitol in the world which is located in Ontario. There are two types of layouts -- a) Mine elevator (single car) layout and (b) a dual mine cage layout that you see here. It can be dirty, dank, and so dark, that you can't see a hand in front of your face apparently without a light when you step onto the 1,400-metre level of the Creighton mine shaft. I was thankfully in the smelter with my two bros while pop and oldest bro were in the mines. Also, all men/women are not called by their names but instead are given designated numbers as you see on the tag board. The shower and hanging of clothes basket is called the DRY. You hoist your basket up high so no thievery can occur, showers are powered on at end of shift or when directed to turn on by the acting shift boss. You are then bused out to the parking lot after passing security. Our DRY was massive and this is certainly a scaled down puny version as they are using lockers. Besides, this is a totally different type of mine.
I love ghost towns. This was a good one. Would like to seen exploring a couple resident homes. I really like this channel. You guys do a great job. Graffiti artists suck big ones.
Thanks Joe! We have many pristine places on this channel without any tags. Did you also see the underground mine kn Colorado ? That is a crazy one!
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Yes I did.
As a child I went a ghost town close Great falls, like to see it if anything left .
Watching a huge beautiful storm way miles away cliffs specifically drop rain vertical from cloud awesome I'll treasure memories.
And did you find anything cool?😏
which town was this? awesome video!
I could have taken to all sorts of places if I would have known you visited :)
What kind of places? I’ve been to some and liked it a lot! This one was unfortunately in a bad shape. But still worth a visit
$9,000 in 1946 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $136,742.77 today
That’s crazy! Thanks for the info!
Yeeesh... I wonder if it was cheaper to get electric lines ran in than to feed fuel to a power plant for that much electricity
@@holysirsalad Well, with the river there they could build a hydro station maybe... wont be enough for all the electricity though.
Great work
Top demais mesmo 😃😁 gostei.. parabéns 👏👍🏻 amigo 👍🏻😃 ótimo lugar
Bob ur such a movie star!! 🤣🤣🤣 I'm watching u on Amazons series What on Earth! The space shuttle u found!! Great job that's two zon shows I've seen u!! ❣️💕💙💜❤️season eleven episode one!
Nice vid!
The tile that you were tapping on with your finger is asbestos
Wow Bob!
30:22 Consecutive numbering for lockers was apparently not yet invented....