San Juan Mining Camp

Basically before Nelson started this was the town in El Dorado Canyon. I got a tour of a location very few know about or get in. Boot explained to me about how sometimes people come in there to vandalize, spray paint and steal. It saddens me really because our group we go into a lot of places like these and we never touch a thing. We take some photos...have some laughs....get our ghost and leave without hurting a place.

Boot has been working on the restoring the camp and I can see why he never leaves the canyon...and I can see why he loves it there. Its beautiful, its historic, its haunted and like he says you are the law. I also share his belief to and trust me he don't mess around he shot someone's motorcycle for trespassing you have to love this place. So we probably will camp in San Juan sometime. What is interesting is that this is the same camp that shootouts and even a massacre took place!

Anyhow Boot told us a ghost story or two about the area including a tale about an apparition caught here on camera. He showed us the newly built old west town with the reptiles, bathrooms with running water and a few other cool projects. He also told me about a few girls he met on the Internet and it sounds like he is having the same issues I have with girls online which is no luck. So ladies if your into wildlife, ghost towns, canyons and beautiful sunsets let me know....Boot is looking for a lady to share this with. I am saying that with all due sincerity and also ladies this paranormal investigator needs a lady to hahahahaha

June and I were talking....and I made her laugh cause she has all these guys calling worried about her safety etc but like in my life as a founder you go out risking your life you come home and nobody cares lol. You don't get no emails saying hey Lord Rick hope your safe or okay. I wanted to add this into my report because people like Boot and myself we are risk takers he runs tours for tourist and I run paranormal investigations for the public. Its all really the same concept.  Like he said will help eachother so hopefully my film will give the area some recognition and boosts Boots tours to.

The boards creaked as I walked on them I seen a small cave which was used back in the day to keep food cold. There was an old stage coach...a dried up creek...fire pit etc. I mean all the old frying pans hanging up, cattle skulls, tools etc just amazing. The camp has a trail running along it and steep canyon walls on all sides its nestled in the mountains good.

Boot pointed out the Buster Mine near by the camp. We visited these stone houses same ones that were in the old photos. I mean families lived in small stone houses no bigger then 10 feet by 10 feet. They were restoring some of them kind of eerie seeing them sit up on the hill. One of the foundations we seen was just a hole in the desert with some stacked stones. Back in the day he told us it was a classy home to live in cause it had two rooms instead of one.

We hiked on up to a water hole the water in it is actually cleaner then Las Vegas water but the miners drank it as it has a filter with a pipe running through it. The water had green pond scum on top but Boot told me it goes down into a tunnel that may not have an end to it or cavern rather. I thought this was cool and the old pipe still ran from it including the new pipe he installed which gives the bathrooms water for the toilets and sink.

The canyon walls were very high I mean we were in the mountains and up to our left was a foundation of a processing area. Boot showed me another mine way up on the hill.  He showed me how the concrete was held together with old pieces of tin cans and other materials called the Wilson property.

Next to the foundation was the Wilson's home which basically was a cave with two rooms. The bed was still in there or springs rather along with other debris. Boot showed us how they were able to have a fireplace based on the angle in the cave along with the fact that the ceilings were low it would not matter because with a couch and a television you would be living like the Flintstone's hehe:)

We left headed back into the old west town it was peaceful we could see the light from the Luxor in Vegas in the night sky. Every single star was out and constellation. It was a great little hike with stone structures on both sides...the cave, steep walls which near one of them was a stake hammered into the stone.

We came back to the old West town June took a knife to boots neck I got the photo to prove it haha. I ended up grabbing a bow and I shot it I got the picture to prove that one to lol. The tomahawks lets not go there lol.  We then off roading this is things became a little more intense as we were working our way up to do more mines and hiking. I felt a little watched but like Boot says its a peaceful place you can lay your jacket down and sleep all night.

Boot took us down a very rough road to our right was desert to the left canyon walls. Eventually it dropped off to our right very narrow and Boot was like ehhh don't worry this is the highway here lol. It was fun and to our left was an old stone house where this Asian man started the mining operation in El Dorado. It was two stories built into the side of the mountain. We also seen another one way off in the desert on some rocks where an old lady use to live. It was a rough area to live in no doubt the road was deadly.

We came to a look out point and our adventure into the Gettysburg had began.