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a chance of a life time to hang with socals mine exploring rock stars "The Underground Explorers". this was not much of a wheeling trip although there was plenty of real world application of 4L and lockers to get where we wanted to go. the dale mining district, i learned, is a favorite among offroaders due to the miles and miles of trails. its full of old mine roads going to every hill top and basically traversing the landscape in almost every desirable direction. many of you may have seen previous mine exploring pictures that i have posted up... i can tell you that these guys would not get out of bed for all the places i have been put together. they measure mines by the hundreds of vertical feet and navigate them by sophisticated climbing gear and countless hours of first hand knowledge.
my first impression was that they were a very tight knit group, similar to a combat squads comradery . as we gathered around the frame head of the mine the next morning i soon found out why. this was serious business... safety and complete trust of each other was 110% of their daily routine.
we hit some beautiful terrain out there and the guys did some amazing mines. i did alot of watching but got in on the fun at the last mine where they taught me how to use there equipment and even let me try it out! the ability to look at something scary in a mine and do it safely is a really awesome feeling!
UE mobile command
UE morning warm ups aka toilet paper hacky sack
beautiful hand built mining roads
safety checks
Dave dropping
dave out of sight
Stacy after 7 hours under ground
beautiful!
Stacy going down
half way down
Mike heading down
this was a huge rock with alot of green mineral in it.
my first impression was that they were a very tight knit group, similar to a combat squads comradery . as we gathered around the frame head of the mine the next morning i soon found out why. this was serious business... safety and complete trust of each other was 110% of their daily routine.
we hit some beautiful terrain out there and the guys did some amazing mines. i did alot of watching but got in on the fun at the last mine where they taught me how to use there equipment and even let me try it out! the ability to look at something scary in a mine and do it safely is a really awesome feeling!
UE mobile command
UE morning warm ups aka toilet paper hacky sack
beautiful hand built mining roads
safety checks
Dave dropping
dave out of sight
Stacy after 7 hours under ground
beautiful!
Stacy going down
half way down
Mike heading down
this was a huge rock with alot of green mineral in it.
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