The Mystery of Pitt Lakes Lost Gold Mine also known as Slumachs Lost Mine or Lost Creek Mine in British Columbia, Canada - wikipedia org Pitt Lakes Lost Gold Mine
The fellow at 20:50ish is a famous and well known here in BC his name is Bill Barlee (Neville Langrell) he was one hell of a storyteller he also preserved history and a very likeable guy. Bill Barlee died June 14, 2012, several months shy of his 80th birthday. . If you wanted to know anyting about British Columbia's pioneer days he was the man to talk to.
What a great video! The mountains of B.C. seem so endless to me. I was impressed with the mountains of Montana, they seemed endless (to this Connecticut citizen). These were topped off by the mountains of Glacier National Park, where the mountains are extra-dramatic compared to the rest of the American Rockies. Yet this is NOTHING compared to the vastness and unspoiled beauty of the mountains in B.C.
Ya Alaska and Canada has some beautiful mountains I saw on a cruise. Be fun to drive to Alaska on the road and tour canada. The southwest is cool to. The mountains aren’t near as grand but in Colorado you can be on a mountain and look and see hundreds of miles away to like central Utah or visa versus. The grand Tetons are probably some of the most dramatic mountains in the lower 48 for how quick they rise up. Travel is great!
“you can get stuck in these mountains” is an understatement. you can get SWALLOWED by them. even the actual lake is so unpredictable, it’s insanely hard to canoe on at certain times of day because the wind picks up with absolutely no warning. even as someone who’s conscious of this and super safe in the outdoors, that lake and the mountains surrounding it have shown me that they could kill me over and over again.
Very interesting for people like myself, who has spent time hunting fishing in Minnesota. My father was a man of the woods and told all sorts of stories. My uncles had a cabin in the north country of Minnesota and had stories also. While I was spending time hunting and fishing, we would talk with locals who had tales of pioneers. People who walk in the woods and explore nature, always seem to know a great deal about the great creator. Amen
I have lived no more than 5 miles from Pitt Lake all my life. This guy telling you where Slumach was is full of it....Nobody knows how far in or which direction. But I will tell you this...the fact that he made the journey but once a year is a clue to how many days in....more than a " Few"
Hubcap _ Truth Filter For You Tube why risk that? Going right back out of town, guaranteed you have people following you with shovels. Once you lead them to your mine, they leave you there for good. Come out with all the gold you can carry, take the year off and enjoy. Then after all the times past no one knows when you entered on your next trip out, I'd be leaving at night and taking the long way lol
Well even metal detecting seems to help people get out side and be active even if people are older. I just watched a video of a gold group in Arizona. A bunch of older retired people go camping and metal detecting. It’d be much better then golfing. Losing health sucks. My dads paralyzed and hasn’t rode a horse since. Then the government continues to close four wheeler roads and shutting down public land. Or they’ll saw an area is a recreational area. It’s basically closed down just with one main road remaining open. The government screws over a lot of disabled people from enjoying public lands.
R.I.P bill Barlee, no one knew The British Columbia gold rush like him . He did an episode of gold trials and ghost towns on the lost Slumach mine . You tube it its way better then this doc or whatever it is
Looks like a great place to visit. Obviously no bugs judging by the guy travelling without his shirt. I spent time in Western Alberta and during the summer there, one would be attacked by voracious man eating mosquitos. :)
This is fun to watch. The thrill of the big find, the risk of getting lost in the wilderness. Just have to forget for a time about GPS, TOPO maps, etc...
Great video. I personally do believe in the lost gold although i don't think it would be as high as the glacier itself as way back then the glacier was way lower down and it would take longer to get to than 3 days especially in snow. If it is as high as the glacier was; it's possibly at the end of it at that time as in the letter it states....."the gold is located where the water just ends" Maybe meaning the water disappears into the glacier ?
I've watched this Slumach gold video a dozen times with that haunting banjo music in the background it fascinates the hell out me how people murdered and lied when bitten by the gold fever. Suppose they were quite hard and lawless times in those old frontier towns back in the day.
GOSH! don't'cha just love a good ghost/gold story? this one is great! wild country, lonely valleys and rivers, big ice flows that kill everyone who walks on them! The lure of gold is a sickness that when it get's into your blood never leaves you. the flash in your pan of real gold. it doesn't matter how big, or how small that flash is. it's REAL gold and no one in the history of man has ever laid eyes on it until you did! that sets the hook that will NEVER leave you. the draw of the gold calls you for the rest of your life. It calls you unril you can't resist it anymore and you find you HAVE to go look for it whether it is only a day trip. a weekend or an entire summer, you WILL go for how ever long you can stretch it out to, and the time is NEVER enough. It has caused men to leave families, for only a week mind you, or two weeks, but then they find the life doesn't ley them go back to what once was and they end up spending their whole life chasing that elusive yellow metal. There are a lot of guys, and yes also women who never get rid of what they find, they can't bear even the thought of selling so much as a penny weight of it, that is unless it's for more gold finding equipment but even then it makes their backside clench like superman's. Well, maybe i'll be lucky this next summer and be able to go panning for the entire summer at a few places i know of. there are a few spots now, because of the drought that are closer to get to that have never or at least not for the last hundred years or so been panned or dredged or even snorkled. I think i'm going to hit a few of these and see what in the bottom of my pan by nightfall. To all you gold fever victims like me, happy hunting. May your pan never be empty and your bean pot always be full and hot. \/ peace
Pitt lake is anamazing lake with unbelieveable camping .. So beautiful ..i canoed qnd boated there lots as a boy eith my father and sisters..many nights we camped around there and on the island.very very cool place
Well if they’re going to charter a chopper they might as well go all out and attach a magnetometer and hire a exploration geologist:) That went from zero to 100 pretty quick compared to them hiking around aimlessly test panning lol.
The scoped rifle won't remain accurate if you lug it around on your shoulder as depicted. Check out Bill Barlee in Wikipedia. He is a very interesting guy.
of course there will be new treasure seekers, what adventure loving guy doesnt dream of going off on some trek for lost gold.......heck its on my bucket list..........=) there is two words more powerful than most........"What If".........
This is a good story; looking for a lost mine....but I'm halfway through and I didn't see them pan yet. They fish and smoke and hike...but if you're not doing test pans you'll never find it. Small nuggets might lead to large ones. Finally at 16:15 they actually start to pan!
In all of the videos i have seen of people searching for slumach's gold not a single person has brought a shovel..! even in archival photo's people are shown hiking, climbing, camping, riding in helicopters or standing next to tent shaped rocks but no one is pictured with or carries a shovel?
Most people are looking for an actual mine a hole in the side of a mountain but that may be all wrong as the Goldmine could be just an open field or a valley.
i have been back in that country,it is so vast and so rugged some areas impassible.I believe there is gold most likely in every river in BC..finding it is another story.
It’d be relatively easy to find today, doesn’t mean there’s gold nuggets just lying everywhere but you’re looking for baron bedrock and it’s probably in a canyon or something but the letter gives a pretty good description but it’d be easy to narrow it down to specific places that fit the description with the use of a drone.
It was likely found and mined out years ago. Whoever found it would keep it quiet for sure or others would claim it like the government or indigenous people. Never blab about finding treasure. Shipwrecks are a good example. I don't condone it but you will likely get very little reward for finding it.
New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and is a member municipality of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capital of the new-born Colony of British Columbia in 1858, and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island Colonies were merged in 1866, and was the Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population by Vancouver during the first decade of the 20th Century.
lol, loved how the footage was of New West, while implying it was no more. A little melodramatic at times, like describing it as at the foot of the glaciers....wtf? yah there is some snow there- but its way up the mountains. No one would go that high. You can buy property on Pitt Lake, nice area- but hardly secluded.
Having grown up in the Fraser Valley I'm always interested in the history from generations ago. A few problems with this video though, where it shows Vancouver's location is actually Richmond, Vancouver is about 10 - 15 miles north and 60 miles north of Vancouver puts you west of Whistler ski resort. The start of Pitt Lake is about 23 miles east of Vancouver. Pitt Lake is 20 feet above sea level, it gets about the same weather as Vancouver, maybe a little wetter. There are some small glaciers in the upper reaches of the Pitt River, closer to Whistler but Pitt Lake is not at the foot of any, that's why they had to use a helicopter to find them a long ways from Pitt Lake. They also went up this valley the hard way, there are roads, small settlements in this valley and farther up.... logging roads and clearcuts from logging. If your going to do a video like this, get the geography and directions right otherwise it calls into questions the accuracy of the rest of the video.
Are you saying that Pete Velner, has passed away? He was a very good friend of mine. I knew him & his family for over 25 yrs. I moved away & lost track of him.
THERES A OUT HOUSE AT END OF PIT LAKE BY THE CAMP SITES OK YOU CAN DROP A ROCK IN OUT HOUSE AND LIGHT A SMOKE BEFORE ROCK HITS THE BOTTOM OK I BET THATS A OLD AIR SHAFT FROM THE LOST MINE AT PIT LAKE
That area should be made into a national park. It is so beautifull. Kudos to the Guy, who saved it from the loggers. Save it for comming generations.✌🏻🇺🇸👩🏻🚀🇩🇰✌🏻🌞
my dad told me in early 50s it was above widgeon reserve whitch is still there 100s of loggers for 70 years worked in alvin know every inch of that area my uncle worked there for 15 years i went there in the 60s i know scotty and boliou
I know this is an old video, but the thing about curses, you can release them as fast as they're made. You don't have to accept them, they can be completely eliminated. Even if they don't find this man's gold, there is lots more in those hills. Why not just look for your own? Those hills must be teeming with gold.
Unfortunately (OR fortunately), nearly all of the area around Pitt Lake is Provincial Park-land and you're not allowed to mine or stake mineral claims there. As long a you had a BC Free Miner's Certificate, you MIGHT be able to hand-pan with just a gold-pan and shovel...
The whole earth is a treasure from the blue Sky's to grey, from City to town from primeval forest, to Sandy Beach, from hyway, to byways, all beautiful and full of treasure's!!
That's probably just a reflection of his laid-back nature and lifestyle. His choice, he's not hurting anyone. I noticed the same, with his duffle back instead of a backpack.
Wonderful area, and for sure they did find some gold there, but I don't think there is the Slumachs goldmine. There are always big stories when one guy is lucky and find one or two times a bigger quantity.
Wow, nice nugget !! Now, find the source and get ready to retire in the manner in which you can become accustomed !!! Good job !! Let us know how the assay turned out !!
The Indian's gold can only be found in the inter when the water is low... That why he came down in the summer to restock his supplies because his gold mind couldn't be reached because the water was to high....
I'd look at the base of the glacier first...any gold scraped up by that ice will accumulate there first, then when water rises, get washed further down at a guess. Maybe in winter, the water is low enough to get to that gold. It would explain alot.
maybe he was a trusted trader who was used by many different local indigenous people and his job was to go into town and trade gold for supplies simply for the sole fact that he was more accepted by the towns people than most of the indigenous people at the time that he was getting the gold from . meaning the gold was coming from many different places over the whole area .it would be interesting to know what he was buying when he was in town it might give a clue to were he was going or if im right and he was buying for many different people
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I think his goldmine did exist but has been mined out years ago. When someone would find it you think they would tell people ? Of course not, if they did the government and indigenous people would claim it and also others would come rushing in. They likely pieced it out slowly or melted it down and cashed in.
Jees, someone didn't teach this bloke any muzzle awareness with his rifle... slung over the shoulder, barrel pointing in every which way including at his mate... look at 11:40-11:50
@I Dig Ohio well they keep playing with guns like that, there will be two less tough guys in the world, doesn't matter how tough you think you are get shot in the gut, or in the back see how long you last, guns are not toys to be played with, use some discipline treat them with respect, and you and your friends will live to see the next day. the thing I find funny as hell yu get these so called real men (LOL) and as soon as they hurt them selves there the biggest bloody wimps, I have seen grown men reduced to tears because of a little blister on there instep, funny as, and then you see the RSM, who is a female, take her boot off and it makes you shudder just to look at her foot, I'm a bloke and she made me think she had balls after seeing that.
@@rtoguidver3651 In the words of Mark Beaufoy (from the poem "A Fathers Advice") Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone That it may unloaded be Matters not the least to me.
+Adam Henkel The original video was part of a series produced for the Discovery Channel in cooperation with the tourism offices of the various countries featured in the series. The collaborative efforts were intended generate profits from the sales of the videos and to stimulate tourism to the places featured - more specifically treasure hunter dollars. Of course, in doing such they invariably leave out many important facts that don't serve those goals. Whenever treasure hunting is the focus, the fact that Slumach was a serial murderer is usually conveniently left out of story. When that fact is included, the question of where Slumach's gold came from seems far less of a mystery.
One OTHER theory not mentioned is that a number of Native tribes would ambush gold miners coming back from up country, the Yukon, northern BC, and even Alaska. The Kootenai were famous for "ventilating" Americans trying to get to the headwaters of the Columbia. The "First Nations" couldn't spend the gold without suspicions being raised, so I would put my money on a stash. If we could find a gold sample the Native spent you could provenance it, and it might go back to Alaska. That area had some silver (the Spanish mined it by going up into the lakes via the "poulder" off the Fraser River before man changed to landscape. But gold? No.
Also, if I was a miner and found gold, I would not go to the nearest town with my gold so it would be even harder to find out the place of origin. LOL LOL Not run in town like the movies and holler, "I FOUND GOLD, I FOUND GOLD.!!
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going to tipella there is a brige down is a creek the rocks are brun color and there is a trail going up but my car start to slip i know the way now i need 4x4 to go there
The Harrison River is mecca fly fishing in the fall...not far from Pitt lake. It is one of the world's relatively few tidal lakes, and among the largest over 50 species of fin fish as well.
I would imagine that the Location has been Identified . If so . It is within National or Provincial Park Boundries . He did not Register . We Have It BC . In the Perfect Museum . Where it was Formed . One Day We may be able to show it off .
My guess is there is no mine. If no one knew about gold in these parts back then, the gold in the river would be rich, much like it was during the California gold rush and more recently discovered in the Bering Sea. Typically in a river that is fed by a glacier, it is the glacier that grinds the rock and releases the gold out of it. I didn't once see anyone with a gold pan in the river, which is the first place I would look, there's could still be a lot of gold in there.
John Schnabel we miss you rest in peace my friend not in pieces God be with you always Parker Schnabel has earned himself a new name mr. Gold at least he's bringing in the gold on the series there's one of the fellow that's trying to earn the name Mr Gold and surely hasn't followed through properly Parker Schnabel has taken the name Mr Gold away from mr. Golden self the reason is Parker keeps getting more gold than the other fellow
at 1:26 where it shows you the murder scene and the lost creek gold mine ,, copy and paste this into google maps 49°17'01.4"N 122°39'33.7"W ,, they found it and digging it up ,, Volcanic Brown found a different gold spot and that's the one i want to find
