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< on 1/4/2014 12:17 AM >
|  | | | This is my adventure to Gilman this December. I went 2 weeks ago, on a Friday with one other friend of mine. We left around 2 and made it up around 4 or so. By that time, it was already a bit late and cold. I brought up my camaro, (which was NOTY a good idea) because it's the only car we could use at the time. So when we got there, we pulled off to the side of the road on one of those pull off things to turn around. We tried to find a way in, the only way we found was down hill. The snow was crazy deep! It went up to my knees. I really should of brought snow boots but I wasn't prepared at all. I was partially prepared. I had 2 layers of jackets, and some warm gloves. It was really hard to move around the town with all the snow on the ground. So in all, me and my friend got to explore 2 houses and decided to leave because it was getting dark and way too cold. After that, I couldn't get my car out of the turn off spot, it was stuck. Me and my friend tried all we could to get it out/push it out of the snow. Luckily, someone pulled over to assist us. 5 guys jumped out and went on the left side of my window, right side, and 2 up front. They all pushed and I slowly put on the gas and turned my wheel and finally got unstuck! I would of gave those guys a tip for helping us out but we had to go right then or else we would've gotten hit for being in the middle of the road. All I could do was say thank you. It's nice to see that there is good people left in this world. They are from Alaska, so they must be used to helping people out of the snow! Overall, me and my friend learned our lesson and are going to go back up to Gilman back in the summer time. It was still col walking around those houses, though!
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esprod
Location: California
Gender: Male
| | Re: My Winter adventure to Gilman.
<Reply # 1 on 1/4/2014 12:33 AM >
| | | | So whats the story behind this place? You said the town was hard to get around with the snow and you got into two houses. Was this an abandoned town, community, just a few houses? What's the background I'm curious
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Ricky_from_TV
   
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
I'm going to try and refuckulate it
| | Re: My Winter adventure to Gilman.
<Reply # 2 on 1/4/2014 1:52 AM >
| | | | I like $7 the best - but quick tip - ditch the timestamps/
When Caught Always, Always Use the Jim trick. |
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UrbEXTravis
| | Re: My Winter adventure to Gilman.
<Reply # 3 on 1/4/2014 7:17 AM >
| | | | To: Esprod
This is the history on the place I got from Wiki.
"Several mining operations had sprouted along Battle Mountain by 1879, the first year of the Colorado Silver Boom. The town of Gilman and nearby mining operations were developed in the 1880s by John Clinton, a prospector, judge, and speculator from nearby Redclliff. In 1887, gold and silver were discovered in two vertical chimneys at the Ground Hog Mine, which continued to produced gold and silver ore until the 1920s.
In the 1880s, Clinton acquired a number of mining operations in the vicinity, including the profitable Iron Mask, noted for its numerous caverns with crystal formations. Clinton developed the area as a town and improved the mining operations with higher capitalization. The town, which Clinton developed in order to keep miners at the site, was initially named for him. He donated the land for its initial schoolhouse and built its first boarding house. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reached the mining camp of Belden at the base of the cliff in 1882. By 1899, it had a population of approximately 300, as well as a newspaper, called the Gilman Enterprise.
As they reached the deeper primary sulfide ores, the miners found that the ore contained so much zinc that the smelters refused to buy it. A roaster and magnetic separator were installed in 1905 to separate out the zinc minerals, turning the problem into an asset. The mining operations transitioned increasingly to zinc, although the Eagle Mine was still the leading producer of silver in the state in 1930.
The New Jersey Zinc Company entered Gilman in 1912, and over a period of years bought all the principal mines and the entire townsite. Zinc was the economic mainstay until 1931, when low zinc prices forced the company to switch to mining copper-silver ores.[5] Zinc production resumed in 1941, and remained the principal product of the mines until they were closed in the 1980s.
The town population was a few hundred in the 1960s. At one time, the town had an infirmary, grocery store, and bowling alley. The town experienced labor strife several time in the 1950s, partly inflamed by the out-of-state corporate ownership. By 1970, total production at the mines was 10 million tons of ore; 393,000 troy ounces (12,200 kg) of gold; 66,000,000 troy ounces (2,100,000 kg) of silver; 105,000 tons of copper; 148,000 tons of lead; and 858,000 tons of zinc.
After the closure of the mine and the abandonment of the town, a 235-acre (0.95 km2) area, which included 8 million tons of mine waste, were designated a Superfund site by the EPA and placed on the National Priorities List in 1986."
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UrbEXTravis
| | Re: My Winter adventure to Gilman.
<Reply # 4 on 1/4/2014 7:19 AM >
| | | | Also, thanks for the tip Ricky. Just got rid of that annoying time stamp setting on my camera. Haha!
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Samurai
   
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: My Winter adventure to Gilman.
<Reply # 5 on 1/4/2014 1:02 PM >
| | | | you want another tip, this one from a guy that lives in the snowbelt too? Park the Camaro come November and buy a $400 piece of shit fwd car.
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bornmilitia
Location: SoCal
Gender: Male
Never Be Found
| |  | Re: My Winter adventure to Gilman.
<Reply # 6 on 1/4/2014 1:58 PM >
| | | | just a future tip - you might want to put posts like these in your local forum
"Happiness and sanity are an impossible combination." - Mark Twain
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