You always handle things so respectfully. Sad it is not more common.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Ken

Your absolutely right. Too many people have no respect nowadays. Great video as always

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Gary

Thank you for visiting his grave, nice touch. RIP Bill

Great story, and great video. Especially liked the opening sequence and the end sequence.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Peter

What an awesome story. The human spirit is amazing. All this adversity, and he still kept going. Thank you for celebrating this and showing us..❤✌️

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it

I’m so glad you went to the cemetery. That was very sweet. 🥲 Excellent video. I met her there in the late 80’s, bought a soda from her, and rented a red plastic flashlight to see inside the tunnel.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

She sounds like an amazing woman. Hard core to live out there alone for 40 years. Shame her son wasn’t able to keep the cabin on. Glad you enjoyed it Charley. We wrote a blog on it too.

Intense production, Andrea and Steve. I'd heard of the Burro Schmidt tunnel before but nothing about the later caretaker. What dedication she evidently felt, and her tombstone and gravesite were so unique. I'll need to watch this one again!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

It’s an interesting story Deborah. We wrote a blog on it too. pinintheatlas.com/travel-blogs/burro-schmidts-tunnel/

Once again you 2 informed us while we ate dinner. We must live under a rock - never heard of Burro Schmidt & his tunnel or the Segers. So appreciate the respect you show not only to properties, but also the deceased. Your cemetery visit increased out empathy for them. Excellent video depicting a true "Life Project"! Thanks! Bon Voyage!@

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you. So glad you and Virginia enjoyed our explore. There are many more people who have a tale to tell. Hopefully we’ll uncover some of them and share their stories

Another Awesome adventure with my pin and beers 🍻 such a awesome place lota work for no gold

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

So true Raymond

Beautiful & touching post. As you said lots of people have explored the tunnel & talked about Burro Schmidt"s life, but I never heard about the determined little old lady caretaker before. Thank you.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome Glenace. Glad you enjoyed it

Wow, the can is a three hole-r, how cheery. Steve, you are so right, nothing like beurocrats to mess with your head.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Yep so true Diane

You guys absolutely outdid yourselves with this one! Beautifully done--the film editing, the music, and the way you told the story...very poignant.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so very much. Really appreciate your kind words

I love how you tied up a story of a man that spit most of his life working Underground and now lives out his eternity Underground . On a second thought since it was all about does animals I'm sure the height was designed for them

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

You’ve got a point there about the height Wes. Makes you wonder what was going through his mind when he was tunnelling

Great to see you again, it’s been to long.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

We’ve been posting every Tuesday. Haven’t missed a week! Sounds like you have quite a lot to catch up on.

Sure glad you two are around to share your adventures into history! Good job! Thank you!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

You’re welcome Kerry

Sad story but a very interesting story to know the truth about all that were there at that time. Thank you for sharing and God Bless you and your family. Stay safe in your adventure travels. 🥰👍👍👍👍👍(🌹🐞🦂🌵)

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Rose. See you on our next adventure.

Great video its amazing he did that all on his own and his cabin amazing with the stuff he had he just used to help keep it warm those papers are amazing and i could read them all day there its a shame these place are destroyed by humans its our history

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree. The 3 letter agency should have left them to continue to look after the place. Can’t understand the mentality of people who decide to destroy things. Glad you enjoyed the explore

California. What do you expect? Drive through Oakland or San Francisco? How about Los Angeles? Destruction ßeems to be the norm. Great story, wonderfully done. A real classic by my two best classics.😊

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Richard. Appreciate your support and glad you enjoyed our explore.

Great video, Steve and Andrea - what an incredible story of dogged determination. Also a sad comment on fallen human nature. Authoriarian bodies, whether unelected or elected, will, sooner or later, perform draconian actions for no other reason than that they can.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Brian

Very well done thank you. I think sometimes we do what we do because we can, why not! But that one confounds me. Stay safe ALL!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

He was a determined man

Absolutely. If you don't respect yourself you can't respect others.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree Mike. Something my Dad would say all the time.

I thought this was a pretty awesome video. His cabin is amazing, I hope it lasts for decades to come...

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Just love the newspaper and vintage ads all over the walls!

Great story!!!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Joseph

Another great video. Keep them coming.

@PinInTheAtlas

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Richard. Yep every Tuesday

I went thru the tunnel in 1996. This looks totally different. The only thing that looks familiar is the newspaper room. The view at the end of tunnel too.🤔

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Did you meet Toni the lady that looked after the place?

He was no quitter that's for sure!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

He sure was Gene.

Another great story and video! It's common in the small old houses that they will use curtains as room dividers. Next time ... look around the walls for evidence of curtain rod hangers. It might clear up which room was the bedroom. My great grandmother's house was divided that way. I suspect the Human Mole used a hand drill for his dynamite holes and thus the need for a 4lb. hammer. Working alone he wouldn't have been able to use the longer drills you commonly see in those old mines. I'd think the digging process would have taken longer than the life span of his pack animals. I'm not sure why he dug the tunnel. My guess would of been that he wanted to be a miner, but really wasn't one ... or he just needed to do it in order to be there.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Never thought about the curtains Norm. So very possible. Glad you enjoyed our explore. See you on our next adventure. Cutlery is great 👍

@normstephens8354

3 ай бұрын

@@PinInTheAtlas Glad to hear you can eat more than finger foods now! 🙂 Old houses, before the central heating and A/C days, were a lot more open than today's houses are. The people with a bit of money and larger houses would use pocket doors and folding doors to add privacy, but the poorer folk with the smaller houses would use curtains. My great grandmother had both, but shutting the wooden doors required moving furniture and the curtains were used most of the time. Most of these old houses have had walls added since then though. I'm sure Burro Schmidt wouldn't have worried much about that, but it looked like from the grave that Evelyn probably had more visitors!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

@@normstephens8354 she had lots of visitors from all over the world. The tunnel and William became famous after his passing

This was my very first Jeep adventure.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Depending on which way you go. Easy or hard!

That was a good episode, I have heard of that place and person but have never seen a video on it.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Eric. A very determined man

Hello there this tunnel and the reason why it was made all ways gave me why more and more ?? And your adventure brought up more why ?? But i have found out some answers of why is there a T in the tunnel in some comments from else where the reason is he found a Gold vein at the T so he went right and did find Gold then went left but the amount was only covering cost of supplies so then went back to finish his short cut tunnel through the mt .A hiker was at a Walt Burly mine close by and talked to the grand daughter of walt and the rest of the story about the T in this famous mine of the Mole mine .Now back in the day when this short cut tunnel was made ore was put in sacks and put on mules , horse's,and Burro's and way later wagons were used to haul more ore so as you said he kept digging the tunnel but by the time he had it all dug out it was outdated.your adventure has now given more answers to my ?? But it is sad the tunnel and cabins were taken by a Gov agency so we might wonder if this area was taken as a annex into a park or wilderness area .So great explore ❤️ and the adventure .p.s. Guess thats why my nick is (THE LOST DUTCHMAN) later ⛏️🤔

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Finding the gold vein is quite possible and makes sense. He was one determined person!

@normstephens8354

3 ай бұрын

I don't know since I've never been there, but what I could see from Steven and Andrea's video ... there isn't much in the way of mineralization showing in the tunnel at all. Typical miners would have prospected the mountain above it and then, if something interesting was found, they would dig a haulage tunnel below their find with the goal of intersecting the mineralization and using gravity to drop the ore down and into the carts. it would be interesting to see if there are any prospect pits on the mountain above the tunnel? My guess is that he just wanted to live there and used the mining to validate his claim ... though the adits to the left suggest he was looking for something. The back side of the mountain doesn't look all that mule friendly either. The Clinton administration put a lot of effort into stopping mining on federal land. I think their main focus was coal and everything else was more or less collateral damage. It appears her son could have remained as caretaker after signing an MOU, but he would not accept an unpaid position and they kicked him out as a result.

Great story and well presented, Cheers

@PinInTheAtlas

27 күн бұрын

@@brianmarywapshott2593 thanks for watching

Thanks. It is a shame he did all of that work for nothing. I am sure he found great satisfaction by completing it weather the road was finished or not. Thanks for the video! Fine job as usual!

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you happy you enjoyed it. We found it to be an interesting piece of history. William seemed to be an interesting fellow.

100% right on the money Steven, so much disrespect. What an interesting story. If he spent 32 years digging the tunnel was it just in the winter months? Have you been to Cerro Gordo yet, behind Owens Lake and up 8000 ft?

@PinInTheAtlas

2 ай бұрын

Yes we have Lorna. It in fact our very first video - no mics, just hand holding the iPhone. It is terrible LOL. We wrote a blog about it too.

Well Done, Pin. Thanks for bringing William's story to light. Shame, Shame, Shame, on the BLM. A Living Museum, and they went and just let it rot. What that room looked like, before the first Hooligan went in there and screwed it up for the rest of us, it must of been something ! Wow Steven, that was some good figuring !

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Michael. Would have been great to see the place before it got wrecked

At 10:23, the picture of the man looks like the Movie Actor, Clark Gable. Not for sure if the woman in the background was his wife, Carole Lombard.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

I think you’re right Cary.

@normstephens8354

3 ай бұрын

The photo is of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. It's from a 1936 publicity photo for "Wife vs. Secretary" The photo would have also included Myrna Loy. I tried to link to the original photo, but KZread didn't like that.

@caryward8251

3 ай бұрын

@@normstephens8354 Thanks for the reply and the info. I figured it was Myrna Loy but Siri said that Jean Harlow wore a red wig over her platinum-blonde locks!

@normstephens8354

3 ай бұрын

@@caryward8251 I think Jean Harlow wore a red wig in her first movie. Myrna Loy was very much a freckled redhead naturally and Jean Harlow had very light brown hair with blonde highlights naturally. Hard to say what they did for a black and white movie ... other than it looks like she took her dyed platinum blonde look down a few notches. I think that movie was released in February of 1936 and Jean Harlow passed away in June of 1937. I don't have near as many photos of Jean in my collection as I do Myrna, but I do have the one the newspaper used in that cabin.

Americana and Western characters.

What an interesting life style. But he wanted the simple life. The lowlife Don t care about our past history.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

That’s very true Tina

@tinadelwiche416

3 ай бұрын

@@PinInTheAtlas yes indeed. Keep them coming

That's your tax dollars at work.

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

So true

This was so fascinating, but also made me feel melancholy, simultaneously. *I guess it's easier to remember that they were doing something they were passionate about... *Great coverage of the history, and backstories connected to these sites. Thank you so much, Andrea and Steven, for including the cemetery, as well. 🏚🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️‍🩹

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Rhonda. Appreciate your support and comments. Both William and Toni were interesting characters

Great video guys. And always appreciate your research that you do. Well Done! Oh yeah, BLM- Big - Load- Manure.. 🤠🧑‍🦰🌲🌲 🎼

@PinInTheAtlas

3 ай бұрын

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