Ruins of a mining town

I and a few friends visited the ruins of an old mining town, Franklin, Washington, last Sunday.   It’s just some mining operations foundations, a really deep hole, and an overgrown cemetery.
I brought along a Yashica-Mat, and a few point & shoot cameras.   Notably, an Olympus Stylus Epic zoom 80.   I developed the film at home in Diafine.

Here’s some from the YashicaMat.   It’s an affordable TLR, and quite common.   F/3.5.

Old water trestle

 

And the 35mm:

Dropping rocks down a 1300ft (396 meter) hole.  You can listen to hit hitting the walls for a very long time.

Hoist for system for lowering mining cars down a shaft by cable

It was quite a fun short hike.  I’d do it again for sure.  There were more foundations of buildings not pictured here.