The Abandoned Noble Mines in Pine Valley, CA
We spent the day in Pine Valley, CA hiking around the Noble Mine site exploring the various tunnels located on the various claims. I hadn't been back to this mining area in three or four years, but little has changed. Despite some of the 145-year old tunnels having bat gates installed in them, we were able to enter and explore (and document) some of San Diego County's fast-fading gold mining history. In this video, you will see dangerous collapses, a flooded vertical shaft, frogs in a mine tunnel, and our ingenious method of using a long extension pole and an attached mirror to see around corners in mine tunnels that we couldn't access.
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