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Delamar Nevada
 
The pass over the mountains would become very rugged. Tammy and I would take the car as far as we could go. The rocks were getting bigger so were the holes as we followed a drop off to our right and hugged the mountain to our left. Leaving behind us was another dirt road which led to the mine we would save that for the night time and focus on the ghost town primarily.
 
When I traveled a mile up the road their was an SUV and a few people walking around it. They turned out to be some folks either from Australia or the UK adventuring out here. So I asked the guy how far it was to the town site and he told me just up over the mountain.
 
We had parked forgot are other backpacks so it was rough everybody had to carry something whether it was the cooler....food....equipment etc. The view down the mountainous road was gorgeous all i could see for miles was desert...mountains....hills...and blue skies.
 
We came around a bend where we found our first stone structure. It was at the base of this hill I remember putting on my mask for a photo gotta keep the Halloween Spirit. The boys played running around they were having fun thought the stone structure was cool. It was hand built with rocks and all that was missing off of it really was the windows...door and roof.
 
When we followed the road in it actually took us into a giant valley where we could see foundations and structures all over scattered. I knew we finally came to the end of the road and had a busy day of explorations ahead of us.
 
Our first stop down a hill would be the old mill site. Strangely the mill sat on tiers with each level having a long and high stone wall. The mill site is the most amazing part of Delamar it was just massive. Over a 300 to 500 foot area was nothing but mining equipment, wood beams, metal, foundations, walls etc all part of the Delamar Mill. This also included a giant series of wood beams which probably were part of the mills structure at one time.
 
The area was becoming rather cloudy with the sun peaking through it was about mid afternoon. I followed a path to the bottom of the mill leaving everybody on top for safety. I actually found the old railroad site and these odd sandstone hills.
 
I had to be careful as when I stepped down onto the soft rock my foot went through a hole and just a few feet from that was this black hole that appeared to be some underground cavern. I know that I had no plans on falling into any shafts or caverns so I had to be careful walking amongst the soft sandstone cliffs and hills.
 
I went down into a wash found a bunch of mining equipment like these giant ore bins and even a water tower. The climb was rugged and very steep up these sandstone hills. But when I arrived on top you could make out that at one time the railroad or perhaps a set of mine cart tracks ran along the top of these as wood ties were still left behind.
 
On top of the this mound I stood overlooking the entire town. I was out of breath because I ran at least 500 feet down below the mill to these high sandstone hills....climbing them and struggling to get to the top. But the view was gorgeous and I was able to plot our exploration from where we would set up base camp to where we would leave when nightfall set on in.
 
I could sit here for hours telling you about the town site but the photos are 100 times better then any description I can give. When I stood up on the old railway I seen an entire city made of stone. I also noticed higher up on the mountains the background possible mine entrances. Due to me having my kids I had no plans on investigating them as its been rumored those are shaft mines.  Always use caution when in mining areas trust me one fall and its all over.
 
I remember walking up to a ledge seeing debris below in a narrow wash. I thought it would be safer if I just slid down the side then try to climb down a ledge. I slide down the side of a sandstone hill. It was sandstone still forming so it became weak as my shoes filled with sand and rock pieces.
 
As I slipped into the wash I realized nobody could see me I was 400 feet away as they stood on top of a brick wall built into a hill. I had a series of small washes so I climbed up the side of a bank where it led me to some foundations as if they were part of the mill. It may have been the old train station or part of this giant mill.
 
I was out of breath as I ran to check out old equipment....rail lines on a sandstone ridge and foundations near the mill I didn't realize that nightfall soon  would be setting on in. I caught up with my family then decided to take a road running parallel with the mill sight. We took that road till it branched off like a Y. Both ways would take us into the heart of the ghost town of Delamar. I decided to take us to the right where some major stone structures stood. That would be near where we would break after 20 more minutes of exploration before we would start to make our way towards the other direction.
 
I noticed that their were many large stone structures but no roofs, windows or doors. Just piles of rock foundations crumbling as the sun setting glistened off the gray stone. I went further down the road which led me to a tall hill which overlooked the entire valley below us for at least 20 miles with the mountains peering at me in the foreground.
 
Their were smaller foundations on this hill perhaps residential cabins maybe with walls a foot or two high. I watched the children and Tammy check out a large structure 200 feet below me they were very excited to be here. I was just enjoying the view that same view has never changed even a century ago when this town once stood.
 
As I headed back I noticed off to my right another valley below with many stone cabin foundations crumbling. I did not realize it but this town site was this large as it was secluded nestled within the Delamar mountains on every end but fairly high up sort of like being on a giant plateau with the town built upon it with a massive valley below.  I know this makes no sense best way I can describe it is indescribable and "I Wish You Were There" hell maybe I could make postcards make some money to finally pay for site dues and cost lol.
 
I caught up with everyone after taking some photos when we started to head back to the fork in the road where we would encounter an entire road with ruins on both sides of the roads for hundreds of feet. We would stop at what we believe was the old saloon and inn. This structure had higher walls and clearly a second story to it. The woods and stones were scattered all over the wine cellar perhaps part of the first story to where once where the floorboards existed.
 
We took a break here for a good hour ate dinner....drank......sat around talking about adventure. The boys played tag running around the saloon peaking at me through windows. I set off on my own for a little adventure as I went further down the road. To my right were ruins some much larger maybe bigger homes at one time stood here or business of some kind. The town site had a very European look to it all nestled up in a higher desert backdrop.
 
To my right were many foundations but they sat on a ledge and below that ledge 10 feet below their were a dozen more foundations. You could clearly see that the town had a series of old roads that at one time were streets. The town was built into tiers of the hills and ledges. This was similar to the mill site we seen earlier walls of stone 12 feet high built into a ledge.
 
I looked further up the road as it ascended uphill and seen one of the most intact structures famous within the town site. It actually at the time looked like a church with a steeple off in the distance that which it was not.  But at the time with the way the sun hit it 500 feet atop of the hill I would not make it there till nightfall when I went back to base camp.
 
At this time the sun was going down behind the mountains dark was setting in fast. We now were more on track with a ghosthunt rather then a day hike through history. The winds picked up for awhile to an uncomfortable point where we hiked up the road which seemed never ending.
 
The road started to lead us into a canyon but a wide one with foundations on both sides of the road. I pulled ahead everyone my one son followed me close. As the ledge increased in height to our left their was a big structure just beyond it.  This was my so called church but closer up turned out to be a giant stone mansion with no windows...doors or flooring.
 
I entered the door as their was piles of stones caused by the demise of the structure. It was hard to believe but I stood in the heart of the widow maker. I will talk about the widow maker when I do a history write up on this location.
 
Tammy and I climbed up into the living room area of the home which was probably the den where a fireplace once roared with the burning of desert brush. I researched this building found out it was called the April Fools Mine Office while others say it was part of the Ferguson Mine. Surrounding it was the complex such as the mine 50 feet up above on the mountain and a giant wall we found behind the building.
 
I had come to realize that 90 percent of the mining businesses that created major deadly dust within the town were all up on the side of this mountain. It was dark and I knew I would not get to see these mines but was okay with it considering its rumored to have some of the deepest shafts and tunnels in Eastern NV I had no problem not risking a fall to my death.
 
We spent sometime climbing around the office buildings ruins.....it was fun and I bet the road that goes over the pass might reveal some other sites of interest as well. There were many roads out here that went through or over the Delamar & Clover Mountains. Some of those roads would lead to another famous ghost town called Caliente.
 
Tammy and I felt we made good timing considering it took us a few hours to get here we had hiked around most of the entire town....had dinner out here and a comfortable time to get back home after day of exploration.
 
We took the main road from the outer edge of the town and took a junction to our right as opposed to the other junction a few hundred feet ahead we originally took. This junction would take us along a small hill where everyone walked in the road while i stayed up on the hill side. I came across many foundations pairing off for a couple hundred feet. It was easy to tell that these were small residential stone cabins perhaps where the miners lived maybe even there families. No doubt life was rough for them living in small stone cabins just 15 minutes away from the mines scattered above us on the mountainside.
 
The one thing that captured me here is the lack of paranormal activity. You usually hear something....maybe catch a shadow....see some lights etc but not Delamar. The entire ghost town was dead silent as we hiked for almost a mile down the road to our car. The road was rugged it was good we decided to park when we did or we may have become stuck out here. Sometimes you get more out of an investigation by hiking and we did we really seen allot more then most people who visit the area.
 
Before I left the area we had a few more stops such as a night visit of the cemetery.....mine we found earlier in the day......and a horse spring. So we were not yet spent as we would work into the night trying to uncover strangeness.
 
When we arrived back at the car we loaded everything on up then we had to descent off the mountain down a road with a series of large rocks. I generally try to avoid them but we also know it might only take one to set us back so Tammy got out spotted me for awhile and removed some of the more hostile rocks till we almost pulled right off into the valley.
 
I had then realized I left some equipment by the road perhaps busy with the kids at the time you know how it goes. I was not turning around so I ended up running up the dark mountain and right in the middle of the road there it was an entire pack of cameras...gear etc Boy I was never so glad to see my things. Although I was not away from them long there was that bit of an eerie feeling having to go back and get them.
 
All in all it was a nice exploration we found broken glass from century old bottles of many different colors in some of the foundations. It is hard to believe that this place once had a few thousands residents and went to having not a single soul kind of eerie here but haunted still remains to be seen.
 
When I made it back to the car we would set our eyes on a few new explorations one being a second visit to the cemetery only at night the other being to find us the easiest way to a very giant mine. The rest of the evening would just intensify it always does.


A darkness comes although its probably just a cloud what I could not understand is why no other photos revealed this pure black cloud nor never observed it. Rumor has it that this darkness are the souls who perished in Delamar coming to take their revenge. How true this is its hard to say although this dark cloud hung over the ghost town not one ounce of mishap occurred during our exploration here. We spent the day and most of the night hiking around the ghost town site just to find rewards such as these ore bins found near one of the main mill sites. Rumor has it that the town is surrounded by a darkness perhaps even curse could this be what we captured?



  

 

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