Kilted Underground

**Riverkilt** · 31st May 10, 12:34 PM

Well, guess I'm 4th generation miner. My great grandfather Archie mined in Nova Scotia then came stateside and was in Idaho City, CO, in Bodie, CA in the 1880 census, then up in Montana. My grandfather Murdoch worked the mines in Montana. My aunt worked at the mines in Colorado and married a mining executive.

Mine tour is great - though I was glad to take this one with the power outage so the light bulbs to make the tourists feel more at ease weren't on. It were dark dark dark just like the old days.

**GMan** · 2nd June 10, 02:08 PM

Your pictures are always good to see, especially in such a great area.

**robthehiker** · 2nd June 10, 04:34 PM

Oh, when you said "kilted underground" I assumed you meant something like this:

**Whidbey78** · 2nd June 10, 06:37 PM

robthehiker, please tell me that's not a sewer. Adventure and exploration are fine, but...

**robthehiker** · 3rd June 10, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by Whidbey78

robthehiker, please tell me that's not a sewer. Adventure and exploration are fine, but...

Well it's really more of a drain...

**Whidbey78** · 3rd June 10, 07:08 PM

Thank goodness. For a minute I thought yo might be looking for ninja turtles.

That tour sounds awesome. I might hit that up next time I'm down there! Very nice pics too.

**Santa Wally** · 3rd June 10, 09:28 PM

Very interesting and informative narrative along with the pictures. Thanks for posting. What a scary thought:

dangling 1,000 feet above the bottom of a shaft. That would be enough to cause a person to quit right then and never go back to work.

**Riverkilt** · 3rd June 10, 10:02 PM

I thought I've seen threads about kilted cave explorers too....?

**Bugbear** · 3rd June 10, 10:09 PM

Kilted spelunking? Not sure that would work out too well... All the crawling etc.

**Whidbey78** · 3rd June 10, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

Kilted spelunking? Not sure that would work out too well... All the crawling etc.

I did Carlesbad Caverns and Cave of the Winds kilted, though that's hardly spelunking. Cave of the winds was cold...and the question was answered more than once!

I'm more worried about a rope-related mishap should rapeling be required at some point.