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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. There's quite a bit of deadfall blocking my path here, but up over this ridge, we should be able to get our sights on whatever it is I discovered on Google Earth. So, there's you, and I mean it's
Exploring a remote, century-old cabin found on Google Earth, revealing natural wilderness and historical artifacts still intact.
Key Takeaways
- Remote historical structures can remain preserved for nearly a century in wilderness areas.
- Natural forest cycles create dense, challenging terrain that conceals human artifacts.
- Wildlife actively inhabits the area, evidenced by fresh signs and disturbed ground.
- The cabin’s construction and materials provide insight into early 20th-century remote building techniques.
- Google Earth is a valuable tool for discovering hidden historical sites in inaccessible locations.
What the video covers
- The video documents a hike to a remote, overgrown cabin discovered via Google Earth.
- The terrain is dense with deadfall, thick vegetation, and evidence of local wildlife like moose.
- The area shows natural forest cycles with fallen logs and new growth, untouched by modern forestry.
- Wildfire smoke heavily obscures the surrounding mountain views during the hike.
- The explorer encounters animal signs, carcasses, and fresh rubs indicating active wildlife presence.
- The cabin is well-crafted with a concrete foundation and wooden pipes, unusual for its remote location.
- Nails found at the site date the structure to 1928, and the concrete foundation remains in good condition.
- Wooden pipes with metal wire bindings suggest an irrigation or water-related function.
- The site is largely undisturbed, requiring trail breaking to access, indicating its isolation.
- Aerial reconnaissance confirms the roofline and overall structure seen on Google Earth.
Chapters
- 00:00Beginning the Hike and Initial Discovery
- 02:16Dense Overgrowth and Wildlife Signs
- 04:36Natural Forest Cycles and Deadfall
- 05:45Wildfire Smoke and Mountain Views
- 07:23Eerie Wilderness and Wildlife Encounters
- 08:26Approaching the Remote Cabin Site
- 10:54Examining the Cabin and Artifacts
- 19:30Aerial Reconnaissance and Final Thoughts
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barely visible, but there's something in the trees, and it looks to be a wood, a wood roof way up here and out of the way. Pretty remote. Um, super interested to see what it is exactly. I don't know
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what it is, if it's an intact home or what the heck's going on up here, but there's, there's something up here almost buried in the woods right next to this canyon, um, about a mile out. So, we're going to take you along with me
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and Greta, and we're going to tread through and try to figure out what exactly is way up here in the wilderness.
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And it's very overgrown. And I wasn't really expecting this because a lot of the areas I generally go to are a lot drier.
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But this brook or creek here keeps things really well fed. And you can see these weeds, how far they've grown off the topsoil. So you're, you're in a foot of weeds.
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But I believe once we get farther in, it'll level out. Looks like moose droppings here.
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I have seen a lot of moose in this area. A lot. I mean, if you hang out in this area till sundown, you're almost guaranteed to see one. The problem is it's so dense. I never noticed this structure until recently or
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whatever it may be. And it has me going a very non-traditional route. You making it through, Greta?
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It's always fun to watch her cut through that. This little slot right here, you can almost see it breaks through and turns into like a high mountain meadow up in there. I am just trying to avoid the thicket
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to my left and get some higher ground just to kind of see what's going on here.
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And it's just like thousands of tiny logs just fell from the mountainside, and they're just stacked. All of this is blowdowns, a natural occurrence that is just a natural feature of any forest. Um, before there was a
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man introduced mitigation and kind of upkeep or forestry service, this is how all forests would look.
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It's crazy because it looks like a catastrophe, right? How each one of these fell? That's where they are now.
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But new growth just continues and continues. Life goes on. It's just a cycle. And it's really cool to kind of experience it. And if you're not used to it, that's what this is. That's what you're seeing here. It's just a
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natural cycle. Nobody did this. Just a part of mother nature. I'm getting higher into the boulder shelf here. And that does look like a good lane to approach. And I think we'll plateau farther if we switch back to the
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left. Heat. Heat. You guys see all that wildfire smoke? It's crazy right now. I mean, I can't even see the sky, right? You know, it's blue, but you can't see it vividly. Even across this valley, I can't see the other mountain
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ranges that define. It's a really crazy fire season. I haven't seen this in a long time.
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I found this rocky outcrop here I'm taking a break on. So is Greta. Looks like she got webs in her eyes.
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She actually blends in pretty well to the trees, huh? She kind of blends in well. It's always eerie getting in places like this because you can't make out shapes or silhouettes or really anything.
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You have to sit and scan. And a lot of the trees take on a shadow and you think it's a bear rooting around digging for grubs or something, but thankfully it's not anything like that.
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But it's just, you just feel claustrophobic. I mean, look at this. Look where we're at now.
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I can tell as well not much comes through here because I'm breaking webs between every tree, and I'm catching a lot of spiders.
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Oh wow. Almost ran right into it. Look at that big pile. Ground's a heck of a lot easier here.
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Good hangout area. Catching a pretty darn good breeze up here. I've been pushing birds. We're almost to the top. But I didn't realize how tall of a hike this would be. I'm sure that I could have picked an
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easier route, you know. Um, but most of the time I just go with the brute force method, and I already know I'm going to hit some difficulties.
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The terrain's terrain, you know, it's part of being in the mountains. You love it, you hate it. But I think I find it easier to do the brute force than find some zigzagging sloping area to go through. I just like
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getting up it and figuring it out, you know? So, we've covered some ground, but we're not at the top yet.
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So, this is a rocky outcrop and about to reach a peak. Pretty old spine.
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Well, maybe not that old. Still see blood on it. Still fibers. This is what I'm talking about. How dense it is. Can't see anything. I'd almost assume that's a cat. I got a hold of whatever that was because you can
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tell it's tiny in size. Hey, there's still some flesh. So, that was this year. Was winter, got it.
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And it's kind of spread around. This area is nice and cleared on a hill.
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Wonder what else is around here. Doesn't look like much. It's all of the carcass that's left.
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Got to sniff him. The wind distracts your hearing, right? It's a huge boulder sitting right there.
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That's a relatively fresh rub. See that? Still hanging. Fresh sap. That's a big boy. Look at that.
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There's a big one back here. That's fresh, fresh. It's just so darn thick. I don't know how they move through here with a big rack like that.
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It's almost like a witch forest or something, seeing the movies. Crazy witch lives back here and whatever's here.
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Check this area out. They've been back here, too. They're definitely hanging out up on this bench.
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See how this is all trampled and disturbed? This is their bed. That's what this is.
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It's so thick. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. So, as I'm getting closer to our site, I've broken through all the deadfall and we're kind of burning daylight, but I'm noticing this trench. There's a huge trench along this. I can hear running water in
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the distance. Then we're not, we're not too far from our mark. We got Greta.
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Come on, you can do it. [snorts] We're not too far from our mark here, our coordinates. But look at these.
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There's these pits. Just these big pits that run down this whole canyon. [snorts] [snorts] Caught a little whiff of something stinky here.
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[snorts] Not sure, but yeah, I'm going to make my way through this, and right over this hill, we should be on top of it. So, we're actually close. We've been going at it all day, and it's been something. It's been
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an experience climbing down that hill and everything. There's a great big boulder wash.
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There it is right there. Let's get a look at this. Holy cow. What the heck?
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I can't tell how old it is even. Look at the wood. It almost looks fresh.
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I'm not seeing a chimney or stove pipe portal either. Let's [snorts] see what this is. 'Cause this is, this is a strange one. It's, it's well crafted.
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It's for the times. It's very well crafted. These are some of the nails they were using. So, they're round heads.
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I know a lot of folks tell me if they're square heads that means it's really old.
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But if they're round heads, maybe not so old. But look at this. Just way out here, there's this cabin. What the heck?
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It's got an entire concrete foundation. I don't understand what this is. The whole thing, a concrete foundation.
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This whole area. Look at that. There's an actual wood pipe sticking out of this. This is wood.
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It's a wood pipe. A wooden pipe. So that right there, they used metal, but for some reason on this pipe they used wood.
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So, and it's bound. It has bindings like a tension binding of a metal wire, and it's all very rusty.
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Look at that. That's what this cabin is way out here in the woods. That big nail is a big old nail.
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Whoa. AJ 1928. This was set up in 1928. And the concrete's still really good.
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[panting] Oh, there. The other piece of pipe is. You see it down there? This was a big, big room. And what looks strange to me from the outside. So you see it here.
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Here the door is. A lot of these that we find, there's a window. Oh, why are you crying?
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But there
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If that's what a wooden pipe was. I've seen a lot of old timey stuff where they [snorts] use wooden pipes for irrigation.
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What's interesting is this is still here. And you can see it right here. There's grain and everything in it. It It's like really old feeling though. Like it's weak. It's brittle.
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I wonder what it looks like inside there. Fall on this. Nothing in there. Yeah. See that?
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That just goes and goes. And that may be Whoa. I just fell. which I didn't want to do, but that goes it goes really far.
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So, this was some sort of a water thing cuz I can hear a super super strong current right by me. But that's [snorts] the other this is the other pipe.
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And this one actually looks a little bit older here. If you can see that, that looks quite a bit older.
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Interesting area. What do you think, Grey? We're going to get our bag and investigate that stream. And I'll get some slow shots so you guys can look at this. But this is a pretty old piece of history. It's about a century old. It's
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gonna be going on a century old. And there's still wood pipe there. This is not a cabin. This is something else entirely.
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And I'm interested in understanding what this operation may have been because we're way back here. I mean, I had to break trail in a few spots. Uh, I could tell no one's been back here this this year at least. And, uh,
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it's interesting how far back this is. And I'll give you a drone just to show you the area. Um, how it's tucked back here. And that's what drew me in from Google Earth.
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You can tell it doesn't it doesn't really look right. Right. That's it. Another thing I'm noting now, kind of taking my time looking at these details.
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Look at those hinges. The hinges on the door. Those almost look smith. You can almost see strike marks here on them like those were handcrafted and not poured.
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And this was the entire way. It's like a little ingot piece to open the door.
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And it looks like they just kind of cleared an area or found a good area cuz this is the natural terrain. And behind me, the cabin or what have you, what we should call it, the the pipe house kind of is carved into it
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into this rocky area. So they used the train to the best of their knowledge back a hundred years ago.
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And a 100 years ago, the invent of a combustion engine, a gasoline combustion engine was just starting in 1928. So this labor we're seeing was definitely done by hand. It wasn't power equipment.
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Maybe some sort of air machine tools and stuff like that. But look at this.
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Look how much power is coming out of that. I mean, it's really cast iron. It's really bad grade cast iron. It's diluted a lot. It felt like cuz you can hear kind of like a hunky solid or hollow noise to it. And it's
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not just cuz it's hollow just water like it feels like cheap iron. And a century later almost. Look at it's still spitting water. So there must be some sort of aquafer they tapped into because my hike up here I was not hearing this
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strong of a current. Maybe a brook trickle when we were down range, but nothing like this. Look at this. Yeah. I don't even know where it all goes, but you can see it's been going for over a hundred years almost. There's moss and
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all sorts of growth. It's crazy. It's crazy. And right here is the cabin. Look at it right here. It's beautiful.
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It's so clear. Like you could drink out of this without a problem. It's almost blue. Look how healthy this water is. And it just doesn't know where it wants to go cuz there's so much of it.
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It's so clear. This is beautiful. I mean, look at that. Look at that, guys. You can see just a shade and hue of blue right on top of everything.
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And Greta's enjoying herself, too. Heat up here. Really fascinating. That goes every day, all day, just like that.
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And around me, nothing to speak of. You don't even see it. So, it's tapped into some sort of an aquafer, right? You can't even tell that would be there.
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Now, what they were doing up here over a hundred years ago leads me to believe it's something connected with possible mining. But this is a fantastic kind of find. And there's some cool little details where you can see they
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kind of shot from the hip on some of this cabin and then didn't. Like it's hodge podge. Someone told them, "Hey, pour that mortar on that for chinking." And then they might have ran out. And you can see these sticks that they
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pulled, little logs, and they nailed them right up just to in here. So, I don't understand if it was a full year round kind of thing or whatever was going on was the summer, but it's it's fantastic.
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Super cool. Now, I'm going to do a little aerial reconnaissance just to kind of check everything over um that we're not missing anything. But this is this is what I saw on Google Earth. And I can see the roof line now. It's just about
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ready to come down here. It certainly won't survive another 10 years, but uh it's up for interpretation any time between that. I just don't see it because you can see if you look in a pronounced lean to it. Um
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and it's interesting that we got a chance to still see this standing. Fantastic. Really is fantastic. A fantastic century old piece of history.
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Topics:remote cabinGoogle Earth discoverywilderness explorationhistoric structureforest ecologywildlife signs1928 cabinwooden pipemountain hikenatural forest cycle
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