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bituerbo location: Calgary, AB Gender: Male \|	Drumheller Mines: < on 1/17/2007 7:06 PM >

	Anybody explored Drumheller mines or the Wayne area? I've found the location of 7 old mine sites, plus that torn down cable-car system across the suspension footbridge. I've heard there is a cool uninhabited town just to the SW of Drumheller called Wayne. I'm heading out (from calgary) to check it out sunday. Is any of this is in the hidden LDB? Amateur Spelunker

Jonsered location: Back in New Mexico where I belong Gender: Male Dressed for a scarecrow ball......... \| \| \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 1 on 1/17/2007 7:17 PM >

	There is some info in the DB. Looks very cool. Get out there and lets see some of your pics. 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.

bituerbo location: Calgary, AB Gender: Male \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 2 on 1/17/2007 11:14 PM >

	I found the wooden cable-car system, as well as some other mine remains when I was visiting the area with family. I'm going to follow the towers to see where they lead to, hopefully where the mine was (logic would presume). http://image14.web...ewActions/FullSize Amateur Spelunker

FyRePhReAk location: Calgary, Alberta Gender: Male disassociative \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 3 on 1/18/2007 12:35 AM >

	Wayne is NOT uninhabited. There are at least a dozen mobile homes and no real abandonments anywhere. Also the class of mine in the Drumheller area is sedimentary coal. they're pretty much all collapsed by now. [last edit 1/18/2007 12:36 AM by FyRePhReAk - edited 1 times] Walk away.

Skaught location: Calgary Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 4 on 1/18/2007 12:39 AM >

	We have a freeze on exploring coal mines due to the extreme danger. We will explore some pretty dangerous stuff but a coal mine is just stupid. Ther are about 12 ways to die in each 60 second period while in a coal mine. Plus there are hundreds of other mines to explore that are accessable to people in the Alberta/BC region. The Internet lists them all (at least going back 100 years) by GPS with a bit of research. There is very little in LDB on this site for Alberta for good reason. In the days before UER existed we had a massive LDB for Alberta with hundreds of sites in it. It resulted in the destruction of several sites, entanglements with rave promotoers, drug dealers, police, arsonists, real estate developers, building owners and every type of idiot one can imagine and many one would never know existed. We concluded LDBs are bad for UE and took it down and do not support the UER LDB. It is an opinion held by many in the community in Calgary and Edmonton that LDBs and public messageboards do the UE movement a great deal of damage. So despite the Calgary community being large and active, our online presence is limited. Our community is friendly and open minded, but with the many requests we get online they typically get ignored. Anyone serious about UE will make an effort and gaining trust is abotu give and take. Those who bring new experiences to the fold and show effort will be welcomed. [last edit 1/18/2007 12:46 AM by Skaught - edited 1 times] If you ever come to Calgary then email Satan@uea.ca and you'll be made welcome, taken to locations and given free accommodation. We'll help save you the $$$ you spend on the flight over here :)

bituerbo location: Calgary, AB Gender: Male \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 5 on 1/18/2007 5:25 PM >

	Hm, I guess I'm too much of a freedom of information advocate to share your views skaught. I showed at the hop'in'brew for a pint, but the place was pretty empty - didn't see any gatherings of any kind. I'll still be checking out Drumheller and Wayne this weekend. I'll wear a hardhat for you. Amateur Spelunker

Pickwick

location:
Calgary, Alberta
Gender: Male

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 6 on 1/19/2007 4:42 AM >

Posted by bituerbo
Hm, I guess I'm too much of a freedom of information advocate to share your views skaught. I showed at the hop'in'brew for a pint, but the place was pretty empty - didn't see any gatherings of any kind.

I'll still be checking out Drumheller and Wayne this weekend. I'll wear a hardhat for you.

Fair enough bud - you may want to take a gas / oxygen detector though. - Good luck!

FyRePhReAk location: Calgary, Alberta Gender: Male disassociative \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 7 on 1/19/2007 4:48 AM >

	amd some excavation equipment. Mine heads were ordered sealed back in the 60's. Walk away.

Rust

I am a rustbucket

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 8 on 1/21/2007 9:33 PM >

Posted by Skaught
It resulted in the destruction of several sites, entanglements with rave promotoers, drug dealers, police, arsonists, real estate developers, building owners and every type of idiot one can imagine and many one would never know existed.

We concluded LDBs are bad for UE and took it down and do not support the UER LDB. It is an opinion held by many in the community in Calgary and Edmonton that LDBs and public messageboards do the UE movement a great deal of damage.

So despite the Calgary community being large and active, our online presence is limited.

Our community is friendly and open minded, but with the many requests we get online they typically get ignored. Anyone serious about UE will make an effort and gaining trust is abotu give and take. Those who bring new experiences to the fold and show effort will be welcomed.

Not this shit AGAIN.

Christ, get off your stupid soapbox.

If you don't like it, then DON'T USE IT! Shut up and stop WHINING already!

Skaught location: Calgary Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 9 on 1/22/2007 12:37 AM >

	There were 2 people at the hop that night. Nox and and another. I know Nox left after about an hour as she had a work commitment I am not sure how long the other person stayed but I know they were there later. We always sit front and centre and the place is tiny so finding us is generally easy. The bar staff also know us well. I was ill and lost a member of my family last week so I was unable to attend. Several others had other commitments. We have had 3 UE road trips in recent weeks so everyone was catching up on the rest of their lives I suspect. There is amost always at least 2-3 people, most nights 6-7. [last edit 1/22/2007 12:49 AM by Skaught - edited 1 times] If you ever come to Calgary then email Satan@uea.ca and you'll be made welcome, taken to locations and given free accommodation. We'll help save you the $$$ you spend on the flight over here :)

Skaught

location:
Calgary
Gender: Male

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 10 on 1/22/2007 12:56 AM >

Posted by Rustblade

Not this shit AGAIN.

Christ, get off your stupid soapbox.

If you don't like it, then DON'T USE IT! Shut up and stop WHINING already!

The only whiney voice I hear is yours. The rest of us are quite happy to avoid caps and excalmations and religious insults.

Please leave this forum to those of us who are in the area and trying to get some UE done.

You are free to contribute in a positive manner, otherwise you just look like a busybody with nothing better to do than poke your nose in events 2400km away from you.

This is the Alberta/BC forum, I am posting within the rules and being polite. Please do as the rest of us.

If you ever come to Calgary then email Satan@uea.ca and you'll be made welcome, taken to locations and given free accommodation. We'll help save you the $$$ you spend on the flight over here :)

Tanuki location: Victoria, BC \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 11 on 1/22/2007 10:29 PM >

	There are a lot of cool things to explore in the Drumheller area, but I wouldn't recommend the mines. They were all sealed, but they do reopen occasionally when things cave in. Sometimes bits of prairie above the coulee fall in leaving gaping holes into old mines. These mines are in soft sedimentary rock and are very prone to collapse, and very dangerous. I know of some of these openings, but I wouldn't go in them myself, and I'm not going to tell anyone on here where they are for fear of getting someone killed. Wayne isn't uninhabited, but it has a good pub. Check it out. If you like mines, check out the atlas coal mine by East Coulee. You can't go in to any mine, but there's a lot of cool stuff there to check out. It's a sort of museum. There are also lots of sites with cool mining junk littered all around the valley if you like checking out that kind of stuff. Have fun there.

bituerbo location: Calgary, AB Gender: Male \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 12 on 1/23/2007 3:44 PM >

	Hey Tanuki, that's exactly what I was looking for and found. Did you by chance see the boarded-up school right in downtown Drumheller when you were last there? Amateur Spelunker

Skaught location: Calgary Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 13 on 1/23/2007 10:38 PM >

	My UE spidey sense suggests there is some industrial UE in the Drumheller area. Possibly something oilfield related. On a side note I do plan to be at the Hop and Brew this week barring any more deaths. If you ever come to Calgary then email Satan@uea.ca and you'll be made welcome, taken to locations and given free accommodation. We'll help save you the $$$ you spend on the flight over here :)

bituerbo

location:
Calgary, AB
Gender: Male

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 14 on 1/23/2007 11:21 PM >

Posted by Skaught
My UE spidey sense suggests there is some industrial UE in the Drumheller area. Possibly something oilfield related.

On a side note I do plan to be at the Hop and Brew this week barring any more deaths.

I spent a good 8hrs in the Drumheller 'area' and saw a LOT of cool stuff: I'll watch the obits and if all is clear I'll stop in for a pint wednesday.

Oh, check out 3rd cell down on the left:
http://www.osbornecommercial.com/
[last edit 1/23/2007 11:56 PM by bituerbo - edited 2 times]

Amateur Spelunker

FyRePhReAk

location:
Calgary, Alberta
Gender: Male

disassociative

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 15 on 1/24/2007 12:19 AM >

Posted by bituerbo
Hey Tanuki, that's exactly what I was looking for and found. Did you by chance see the boarded-up school right in downtown Drumheller when you were last there?

It's really not as exciting as the 1929 construction date would indicate.

[last edit 1/24/2007 12:19 AM by FyRePhReAk - edited 1 times]

Walk away.

Skaught location: Calgary Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 16 on 1/24/2007 6:27 AM >

	Bravo on the find in the real estate listing! If you ever come to Calgary then email Satan@uea.ca and you'll be made welcome, taken to locations and given free accommodation. We'll help save you the $$$ you spend on the flight over here :)

Tanuki

location:
Victoria, BC

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 17 on 2/4/2007 12:57 AM >

Posted by Skaught
My UE spidey sense suggests there is some industrial UE in the Drumheller area. Possibly something oilfield related.

I've always enjoyed the ample opportunities at donkey riding in the area. I suppose they maybe aren't the most exciting discovery, but add a little beer...

Posted by bituerbo
Did you by chance see the boarded-up school right in downtown Drumheller when you were last there?

I haven't been in it, it didn't peak my interest, but a friend of mine went to school there. I have played in and on top of the residential school in Drumheller. It was one of the last functioning residential schools in Canada, or maybe the last one.

Nancy_Drew

location:
East Vancouver, Yo.
Gender: Female

Re: Drumheller Mines:
<Reply # 18 on 2/5/2007 9:42 PM >

Posted by Tanuki
It was one of the last functioning residential schools in Canada, or maybe the last one.

Wow, what an awesome claim to fame that would be :< I guess it's no wonder why Drumheller hasn't put that little fact on their welcome sign.

Tanuki location: Victoria, BC \|	Re: Drumheller Mines: <Reply # 19 on 2/5/2007 11:24 PM >

	I don't think it was one of the evil-christians-will-come-kidnap-your-baby-brainwash- beat-sexual-molest-infect-with-TB-then-send-th em-back-to-their-destroyed- community-unable-to-speak-the-same-language-as-their-parents type of residential schools. I think it was just a result of being in a sparsely populated rural community, where it made sense for kids to only go home on weekends because they lived more than an hour from the school. But I don't really know much about it's history, so it could have some nasty stories associated with it as well. [last edit 2/5/2007 11:27 PM by Tanuki - edited 3 times]

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