Thought you might want a little background on the Cleland Mine. In 1933 Duke Cleland and Howard Bryant went in as partners on these claims. I believe it’s 8 claims. During WWII they were serving their country so for those years the mining ceased. There was a rack mounted as you came around the corner and see the main house with each year welded on a metal strip. 1933 until he passed in the 90’s. Scrappers stole them for $$ As a family we spent every possible weekend at the Mine. It was a hobby. All of us kids loved it. He’d dynamite one weekend. We’d muck the next. The windmills were not for power. We had a generator. The wire from the main cabin was for a handcrank telephone at the main tunnel. Which also was stolen as well as all the ore carts he had accumulated. Duke collected stuff. He was not a big drinker. He liked a shot of whiskey on occasion. And he and my aunt shared a glass of wine of an evening. But the bottles you see everywhere we’re collected from businesses in Bishop CA where he ran CLELAND BROTHERS RECAPPING. For 60+ years he was the original ‘recycler’ in his tinkering projects. Hauling his stuff over to the Mine on weekends. A fun guy and a fun uncle to all of us kids. I still have my original hard hat that I wore in all our adventures.
Wow! I LOVE that you filled in story of what was really missing in this video. So thankful to you for your first hand experience that you so interestingly revealed to all of us curious explorers.
Duke Clealand owned a re-cap tire store in Bishop, Calif. His brother Sam owned the Coca cola bottling plant in Bishop. Both were WWll vets and worked for my Dad before the war. They had a few mines around the country to play with.
If anything, Duke left his name to be spoken for all of eternity. We are saying it now. So I would say he did a good job marking his turf for all to see. No one will ever wonder who lived there. Enjoy!, Kurt in Santa Rosa, California.
I do appreciate the effort and I’d love to see what you are shooting, however the camera moving that fast makes it difficult to take it in and is disorienting.
But looks like the corner liquor store is closed! Seriously, id bet it's quite a distance out of there, through the desert, and to the nearest town with a liquor store!
Some hard breathing. You might want to buy a gimbal to remove shake of video cost very little for what they will do to make video look way more stable.
You need a stabilizer for panning. I get a headache from watching your videos and I am really interested in what you film and your narrative. Would be way more enjoyable without the dizzying panning.
Just found your channel really love this sort of stuff! although your camera movements are very fast leaving close ups blurry! Like inside the cabin It felt like you just stood in there and swang the camera around in circles.. love the concept though
I don't know if the bottle structure has the same meaning for the family but here in the south it's a type of safety totem. It's thought that the colorful glass attracted the devil/spirits and they would go into the bottle and get trapped then they wouldn't bother the people living there. Very interesting to see it there. :)
You show a lot of interesting location however your Video's are a bit hard to watch due to Panning too fast and the shaking of everything perhaps a camera Gimbal setup like a 3 axis stabilizer would go a long ways towards helping make the video's a bit better to watch.
Moderate aerobic exercise 150 minutes/ week OR Vigorous aerobic exercise 75 minutes/ week (Mayo Clinic recommends for heart health) This dude is getting his. You & I are sitting on our butts watching. 😜
I only posted that out of legitimate concern for the fellow. When you can hear his heart beating out of his chest just walking around, something isn't right.
@@78katz Desert hiking with twenty year olds sounds the same. Always good to get a heart check-up, any age, these days. We sit so much more than our grand-parents or nature ever intended. Good reminder, Ben Katz ... thanks!
@@donraptor6156 the huge rain collection system on the roof did you miss that? Plus paper bags are not going to last long with pack rats and the weather. But still it could have been for mercury distillation to free up the gold it's all just guess work...lol
Great presentation and thanks for your effort to show us this peace of history. Like to know what they were mining though. I could not see any sign of the mineral they were after. To me it looked like they where having a good time living out there and digging the tunnels. Oh yes, can't forget all the adult beverages to make it all fun. Family still lives in Barstow. Amazing.
With so many people what did they do there? where did they get food an water for all those people?? how did they survive in an area that can get too hot n too cold??
more i think bout it...how can that many people live out there...theres not one big cabin..so the place..to me is too small for that number of people....doesnt add up.
Thank you Desert Trails . I always enjoy every video . I see dislikes and it always makes me wonder why anyone would do that . You go to some very interesting way out of the way places . I watch several other channels and they are all pretty good , I might like yours the best . I would enjoy going on some explorations with you . Keep up the good work . I can't wait for some more good ones . P.S , people say you pan around too quick . Maybe the viewers can just pause the video to get a better look ? Peace !
Thank you for that. I do pan a little quick. Even though I have been to some of these sites many times, I still get excited and I forget that I am trying to film for others to watch.
I grew up in a place like that in the 1950's, my dad and grandpa mined all kinds of different ores in New Mexico. Thanks for bringing memories back, yes good memories.
Please practice and learn to FLY the camera thru the video. You tend to pan way to fast SLOW DOWN. Keep the light behind the camera, There's so much more you need to learn about being the Pilot of the Camera.
Sorry had to turn off yur video. Yur camera movement was to quick n fast... Actually got me dizzy... Hope I can come back because I live old mine find ns... 😐
Recently started watching. Thankyou. I lived in the Reno area 50 years ago and loved hiking in the desert. Yes I came across a few old mines. They had greenish water and no bugs. Not a good sign
I would like to suggest you slow down on panning the camera when moving it in all directions. It makes it very difficult for us, the viewers, to see and focus on what you are showing with the camera. Just remember you have to take it slow with a camera if you want us to see what you're looking at.
I love your videos… i just wish the heavy breathing could be edited out… i cant have the sound on…..obviously if it was a huge deal i wouldnt be watching… just giving you feedback… hope its not taken as an insult
@@bingbruce4865 now I think he was joking. It was sarcasm. He knew what he was looking at. There are no telephone poles or wires anywhere near so he was joking.
I am really enjoying your videos. May I suggest when you point something out that you do more of a close up and just pause a few seconds? How hot does it get in these places in Summer?
Thank you, for vicariously taking me with you, on your exploration. It was fascinating. How would I research about the history of this location, the productivity, and the family's? I'm guessing they were after gold or silver.
It has been a lot of years since I was there but some where on their claim they laid bottles side by side and made trails through the brush and over the hills, we called it the bottle ranch.
Just subbed to your channel, love this type of content.. thank you and your doing a great job.. I'm from Wisconsin and love the desert life.. I know I'm in the wrong state but I do get to travel a lot on my solo trips on the road.. so I'm coming out that way in 2 wks..
@@johnwilliams640 is it that bad there?? I hate Wisconsin like you hate it there. Best of luck and hopefully you can get out of there and explore. Sometimes you got to get away and see different parts of the world. Like Arizona, so much to see and do there..☮️❤️
Great video. I spent a lot of time Jeeping the southwest desert in the 1980s before moving to Texas. Good to see the vandals haven't been there. Clear liquid inside the mine...nitroglycerin maybe? Best not to fool with it. Enjoyed the remoteness, always loved the desert.
I'm retiring soon and going to sell my home and live in my travel trailer. So, watching these vids gives me ideas on where to spend a month at a time for free and have nobody around to bother me. Thank you for this info bro.
Could the clear liquid in the containers in the tunnel have been nitro-glycerine? Or was this place a meth/drug manufacturing plant disguised as a mine?
What's odd about these sites is the people who spent so much hard work, time, and money developing them one day never come back leave everything there. I would think if your winding down a mining site that played out one would round everything up of value and sell it all. It's like these people just one day quit coming up there the only thing I can think is who ever was last working it died or got too old and could not return to get their things.
I do indeed enjoy the exploration of the desert. Joshua trees? Why not? The desert, right? Very cool site. Everything you're doing is absolutely perfect! Keep it up. Thanks.
7:23. Sad the gaffics of a business was on this Truck 🚚 Box but have been scorched off by the sun 🌞 7:33 shows a possible hanging loop on the door ! 7:37 the ceiling is cold insulated and all the hooks to the left might be for home delivery of meat and cold grocery ? 1920 s maybe ? Great find . 12:00 imagine that view on a huge porch when it was new !
There’s a post apocalyptic themed video game called Fallout New Vegas. The old abandoned ruins in the desert setting look just like it, and the currency in the story is bottle caps, so kinda ironic that you find them in abundance on the track. Lol
Super nice channel, but short on showing anything in detail when specifics are mentioned or anything passes by the camera, as in bottle caps on the track or pointing out what the many bottles had been used for etc etc etc. It seems hurried and the camera is shaky to say the least because the content provider always seems to be hurrying through everything (except the long long trails)...I think I speak for many when I say quality is way more appreciated than quantity, particularly when it comes to places like these that are rarely ever seen by most; I for one would love to see more detail and less speed and I don't see a need for all the chatter about the constant upcoming 360...and I as well would love to see more emphasis on views and backgrounds from some of the higher elevations. I happened to have taken many trips into these very same areas, and what got me started several years ago was the ghost town of Bodie, which lies a bit north of Death Valley, as well as the whole Mt.Whitney/Lone Pine areas close by; what an awesome place. I'm obviously not complaining here, just making suggestions to an otherwise great channel.
Your heavy breathing keeps me thinking you're going to drop dead of a heart attack. Very distracting. Maybe move your camera away from your head. Great exploration.
You keep saying how ( neet ) & ( cool ) everything is . All I see is the most horrific mess of junk & debre scattered all over . What if the who desert looked like that ? Why wasn't it ever cleaned up ? Just leaving it a mass trash pile !
BACK IN THE 1960'S AND 70.S i WENT TO TUBA CITY , ARIZONEA AND MET A NAVAJO POLICE OFFICER AND BECAME BLOOD BROTHERS. HE TOOK ME ON SEVERAL REAL BACK INTO THE DESERT SURVIVAL JOURNIES SEEING OLD RUINS THAT ARE NOT EVEN REGISTERED. I LOST TRACK OF HIM IN THE LATE 1990'S, HIS FAMILT WERE A VERY LARGE FAMILY. HE WAS WM. BILL BILLAGODDY OR IN THAT WHELM OF SPELLING. HE LIVED WITH HIS ELDERLY MOTHER IN A GOGON AND I STAYED WITH THEM AND ATE FOOD COOKED ON AN OLD CAR GAS TANK AND SLEPT ON A PAD ON THE DIRT FLOOR.
thanks for the great vids. I was wondering if you take security with you on these lonely journey's? I also wondered what you might do if you were bit by a snake or stung by a scorpion up in those desolate hills and mines.
You have such great contend but I get exhausted listening to your huffing and puffing. Maybe you could take a break, catch your breath then start talking. Just a suggestion.
You pan around too quickly with the camera. Makes it difficult to take in all the artifacts. @ 6:44 you say the mine doesn't go in very far, but after stopping the video to read the notes left over the mine it says it 2200 feet.
