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Visited in 2010 (and posted a thread at the time), but found myself back in Death Valley today, so - wife & kids now in tow - we took a route back to LA which took us via Eureka Mine. Was close to 100 degrees near the mine (better than the 118 degrees in Badwater the day before), and as always...

Post your favourite death traps. I'll start with one I took this morning. Very rotten wood and a 3 story drop.

Big 'K' is probably one of my 'most significant' explores that ive never bothered to write up. It was the culmination of about 5 years of exploring and documenting the demise of the UK coal industry and was a fitting send off for UK colliery exploring ticking just about every box. No.2 Tower...

Hi I wasn't sure if this was the correct place for this post, apologies in advance. It is with a heavy heart that I would like to inform you of my father's passing, Yorrick. Or Nic if you knew him well. This unfortunate event occurred on the first of April. I don't know if anyone will see...

Didnt think I would bother doing LLuesty but nowt else to do  was quite eerie with the rain and the wind though! Workhouse is well under way with development lots of builders on site and now probly not worth a look

The Morgue; Chertsey I am only putting these up as some people have spoken re the morgue recently. I know its been covered to death, excuse the pun. The morgue here is now trashed beyond all recognition from what I explored 3/4 years ago/ Quick history ; Again, sorry for people who read this...

Introduction This is the story of one of the best explorations of my life, the closure of the vast Teesside Iron and Steel works at Redcar, Southbank and Lackenby. I'm an engineer by trade and always thought i understood the way steel is produced but this past year even i've had my eyes opened...

?You?re facing death? (From Swindon Advertiser)

Just looking to get some content on here before I have chance to edit more recent stuff and get it up so thought I'd get some stuff that I've posted elsewhere but not here for anyone that doesn't know me from other sites. Evening Peeps. This was the second port of call for Zero81 and myself...

Sorry for the delay in posting this one up… Our mad flying visit to spend two days in Death Valley at the start of March ended with a trip to Warm Springs Mining Camp – pretty far off the beaten track. To get there you have to take the Badwater Road about 6miles south of the Furnace...

They say some people get their kicks on Route 66. Not me, I prefer to get mine in the back-country of wild, remote, beautiful America... :thumb So on the afternoon of Day 1 of 2 in Death Valley we headed off towards a place called Stovepipe Wells, and then took the Emigrant Pass up to a...

It’s that time of the year again, and I’m off for a four day trip to Death Valley in California to do some more back country exploring in search of ghost towns and abandoned mines. We flew into Vegas, via LAX, on Wednesday night, before driving the 2.5 hours to Death Valley – by which...

VERY SORRY IF THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN POSTED - as I know it's from April, but I haven't seen it on here. Please delete if appropriate http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/tower_climbers_dice_with_death_1_3259831

Chloride City arose out of silver discoveries in nearby Chloride Cliff in 1873, the earliest of the Death Valley mines. The mines of this small community struggled on for a few years, but by 1880 none were working and everybody had moved on. The Rhyolite (a very famous ghost town nearby)...

One of a number of mines in the Galena Canyon area, which used to be owned by pharmaceutical firm Pfizer. Whilst you might not associate this firm with mining, they used to extract talc from these mines – the kind used on a baby’s bottom, apparently. Talc is a soft, lightweight sparkling...