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 Abby Normal
   
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
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< on 11/18/2013 12:29 AM >
|  | | | I was recently out exploring and found a shaft that I wanted to check out. I set up an anchor, tied a knot in the end of my 200 foot rope, and dropped into the darkness. Little did I know what I was going to find when I got to the bottom.
(1) Nowhere Nevada.
(2) Yep, it's deep and it's dark. Sounds perfect.
(3) Geared up and ready to descend.
(4) Two important things in this photo:
First, the rope ended about three feet above the floor
Second, there is a snake on the old dish washer and another just a bit lower to the left.
(5) Everywhere I looked there was another snake. Some were alive and others were dead.
(6) Count the snakes!
(7) I never been happier to be out of a mine!
I don't know snakes so I don't know what type these are. It was pretty cool down there so they were quite sluggish. I'm REALLY glad that they weren't active.
Turns out the mine was about 150' deep. If it would have been any deeper I would not have been able to get off the rope. Going down isn't too bad, but climbing out is a bit of work. No ladders. No steps. Just climbing up the rope.
Still, it was fun to get out and do some exploring. Next time I'll skip the snakes.
Abby Normal
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Austtie
Location: Ventura County
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1 on 11/18/2013 1:16 AM >
| | | | 150'? Not bad! I'm glad you had enough rope.
Great set Abby! Number 1 gives a great perspective of the shaft in relation to the vastness of the Nevada desert. It's unfortunate that people are traversing the barren land just to drop junk down into the mine.
Also, I would hate to be stuck down there with all those snakes.
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FastEddy
  
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<Reply # 2 on 11/18/2013 1:29 AM >
| | | | If you had a winch with a wireless remote...
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Jonsered
   
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
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<Reply # 4 on 11/18/2013 1:38 AM >
| | | | I can get a wireless remote for my wench? Bitchin! Wait........winch. Not as cool. 
Nice shots Abby. Snakes are the one thing I truly hate about living in the desert.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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Abby Normal
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Snakes and more snakes....uggh
<Reply # 5 on 11/18/2013 3:46 AM >
| | | | Posted by Austtie
150'? Not bad! I'm glad you had enough rope.
Great set Abby! Number 1 gives a great perspective of the shaft in relation to the vastness of the Nevada desert. It's unfortunate that people are traversing the barren land just to drop junk down into the mine.
Also, I would hate to be stuck down there with all those snakes.
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Yeah, the first photo gives a taste of the desolation. I was a bit concerned that I had broken the rules of giving away the POE for the site. I'm hoping I don't have a moderator tell me to remove it.
Truly a 150' climb isn't bad. It was stuffy so it wasn't a lot of fun. I was just glad that it wasn't 160' deep cause that would have left me a bit short.
Abby Normal
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan |
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Alice
Location: Nor Cal
Gender: Female
"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
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<Reply # 6 on 11/18/2013 3:57 AM >
| | | | damn girl, you have some balls!! I am not sure I would have been able to unhook once I saw all the snakes. Good job!
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." |
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Astro
  
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
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<Reply # 7 on 11/18/2013 4:04 AM >
| | | | This is awesome. Snakes are so awesome. I was hoping to see snakes, upon seeing this thread title. I was not disappointed. Hell yes.
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
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relik
Location: 44.26126°,-88.41502° (Appleton, WI)
Gender: Male
There is no truth, Only a perspective.
| | | Re: Snakes and more snakes....uggh
<Reply # 8 on 11/18/2013 4:30 AM >
| | | | SNAKES!
"When it rains, just find bigger drains." |
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Abby Normal
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Snakes and more snakes....uggh
<Reply # 10 on 11/18/2013 3:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
hmmm, seems like I saw something remarkably similar to this one on ebay just a couple of days ago , eh? ;)
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Remarkably similar. My curiosity got the better of me. It didn't say ANYTHING about being a snake mine.
Abby
[last edit 11/18/2013 3:52 PM by Abby Normal - edited 1 times]
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan |
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bonnie&clyde
Location: 510 & 415
Cleverly disguised as responsible adults
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<Reply # 11 on 11/18/2013 5:52 PM >
| | | | This post made me giggle cuz of the pic of u going in then the 1 of u poppin back out. But seriously a woman that's into mineshafts is spectacular! You go Abby! My 2 fave things ever....snakes and bacon 
The question is not when are we gonna stop, It's who's gonna stop us?
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Skye_Ann
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Gender: Female
I seem to have Irritable Owl Syndrome...
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<Reply # 12 on 11/19/2013 8:38 PM >
| | | | Oh god... All the snakes...
Good on ya for staying in there. I would've NOPE'd the fuck out the second I saw the first snake.
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freeside
Location: Northern California
Gender: Male
eh vigo!
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<Reply # 13 on 11/19/2013 10:56 PM >
| | | | Uh, this is some sketchy exploring! I thought I did crazy stuff. Nice trip report and interesting reading.
I can't believe that no one has said it yet but:
"Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf*@kin' snakes in this motherf*@kin' mine!"
-free
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Abby Normal
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 14 on 11/20/2013 3:41 AM >
| | | | Yeah.... It's not that I hate snakes, but I'm not a fan either. Dropping down into a confined space with snakes EVERYWHERE and I don't know if they are rattlers or not. I wasn't at all happy. I snapped a couple of pictures and got the heck out!
I'll be posting up some more pictures from my great adventure later in the week. Don't want to post them all up at once.
Abby Normal
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan |
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droopyeye
Location: Monterey, CA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 15 on 11/20/2013 5:34 AM >
| | | | Just from the pics, they could either be gopher, desert glossy or rattlers. Anyway, there are too many for me. You have cajones for even unhooking. I would have scaled the shaft in 2.3 seconds with the rope!
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cdevon
Location: west county
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Snakes and more snakes....uggh
<Reply # 16 on 11/20/2013 7:38 AM >
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<runs off screaming like a little child>
(but really, mad props to you for 150' rope climb(twice) and dealing with the snakes without using a shotgun.)
When I say I'm 'clean and sober', it means I've showered and I'm headed to the liquor store. |
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ufcvic
Location: denver
Gender: Male
life is an adventure so explore it...
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<Reply # 17 on 11/21/2013 4:20 AM >
| | | | Wow awesome pics. I love exploring mines, but had no idea that you can find snakes. I guess mines in Colorado are different than the ones in Nevada. Very interesting...
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Abby Normal
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Snakes and more snakes....uggh
<Reply # 18 on 11/21/2013 4:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by ufcvic
Wow awesome pics. I love exploring mines, but had no idea that you can find snakes. I guess mines in Colorado are different than the ones in Nevada. Very interesting...
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This was the first time I've ever seen a snake in a mine and it more than made up for all the mines I've been underground when I didn't see any. Sheesh.
I'd love to see some pics of your Colorado mines!
Abby Normal
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan |
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dtewsacrificial
Location: Bay Area, CA
Gender: Male
On my way out the door.
| | | Re: Snakes and more snakes....uggh
<Reply # 19 on 11/21/2013 8:12 PM >
| | | | Yeah. Ok. NT. *jumar*
Nice one, Abby. I think you found the black hole pitfall for snakes, where they go to never return. I'm sure some of the live ones might have appreciated a ride back up to the living world... although I'm sure it would be a scorpion-and-the-frog kind of affair.
You look like you have an old Edelweiss Canyon 10.2mm.
[last edit 11/21/2013 8:16 PM by dtewsacrificial - edited 2 times]
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