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Debris from an old collapsed cabin, including its refrigerator, sits at the top of the road at Bighorn Basin Mine

08983-cabin-remains-800px.jpg The views were already great, but now I'm way above the main mine road below as I climb the switchback to the upper areaThumbnailsNear the collapsed cabin is a platform in front of another tunnel, which happens to be right above the lower oneThe views were already great, but now I'm way above the main mine road below as I climb the switchback to the upper areaThumbnailsNear the collapsed cabin is a platform in front of another tunnel, which happens to be right above the lower oneThe views were already great, but now I'm way above the main mine road below as I climb the switchback to the upper areaThumbnailsNear the collapsed cabin is a platform in front of another tunnel, which happens to be right above the lower oneThe views were already great, but now I'm way above the main mine road below as I climb the switchback to the upper areaThumbnailsNear the collapsed cabin is a platform in front of another tunnel, which happens to be right above the lower oneThe views were already great, but now I'm way above the main mine road below as I climb the switchback to the upper areaThumbnailsNear the collapsed cabin is a platform in front of another tunnel, which happens to be right above the lower one

As is the case with many old desert mines, getting supplies and equipment to a location as isolated as this must have been a lot of work!