White Pine

I didn't see any if there were.

Tomichi Pass overlooking Hancock Pass which eventually leads to St. Elmo. 

Tomichi was the smaller of two cemeteries in the valley.

With four separate bedrooms, a community sleeping area, full kitchen, indoor bathroom ect. the place was awesome.

The mine.  Signs prohibited entry due to high concentrations of lead,

I recently went up to an old ghost town called White Pine for my friend John Fulton's Birthday. One of the local brewer's assistants owns a huge lodge there that runs horseback trips during the summer, but in the winter it along with some of the other summer cabins that still exist are deserted and only accessible by snowmobile.  

So after work one evening we loaded the gear, skis, five people and two dogs onto a snowmobile-sled combo and braced for a bumpy six-mile moonlight trip up to the lodge. (the keg and food had already gone in two days previously)

White Pine was silver mining town with a boom in 1878, but after a plunge in silver prices in 1894 the town was nearly deserted.  The original site was moved due to repeated destruction by avalanches.  The actual townsite has several seasonal cabins intertwined among the shells of late 1800's dwellings.   

It was a great experience, essentially a hut trip minus most of the hike.  The next morning we hiked up to Tomichi Pass and skied the back side.  Most of the snow was crust up until that point though. 

There were coyote's everywhere making there presence known through their cries, trails of scat and leaving the dogs nervous at night while skiing out ahead and alone I startled one down in the creek bed.  It had a start up the hill and got stuck in a drift momentarily.  Although I got close I couldn't get my glove off and my camera out in time to get proof.  Later that day my friend said that fresh coyote tracks over laid my own for several miles.