Damon and Pythias Mine

My apologies for being so late with comments today, but we were underground. My wife and I and three friends explored the Damon and Pythias Mine in the Skykomish area of the North Cascades. We had been told about this mine by an Ipernity friend who knew the area and had been in the mine and we went there first and then went on and bushwacked our way to Crater Lake, a small alpine lake in the same area. We had beautiful weather and an amazing day.

The Damon and Pythias Mine was a gold mine that was opened in the late nineteenth century and operated sporadically until the late nineteenth century. Silver, lead and arsenic were taken from the mine which is a series of horizontal shafts with much of the old track for the ore cars and other equipment still in the mine. I'm not sure what the tank was used for but an old ore chute and shaft are just to the right and two other shafts to the left and straight ahead.