Well hidden under the forest canopy, the Overgrown Path Mine lives up to it's name. Our intel on this site was slightly off, resulting in having to search for the adit itself with no guidance. With no obvious paths along the forest floor, there was only one option... start bushwhacking.

The site itself consists of both a backfilled shaft and an adit. The shaft was no problem to find; an old overgrown road links the shaft to a nearby ATV trail. The adit, however, was much more problematic. We did have co-ordinates that we hoped would lead us right to it. Instead, the co-ordinates showed the adit as being dead-centre in a relatively new logging road winding down the ridge. Not a great start.

Brind and I had hooked up with Ontario Abandoned Mines earlier in the day, when we went down to the Timber Stopes Mine, and he had joined us when we carried on and went looking for the Overgrown Path Mine. Good thing, too, as he had far more energy for randomly romping through the woods while looking for the adit. I tend to not like pushing through the forest; I'm notoriously good at getting tree branches to the face, and the idea of kicking a bald-faced hornet nest hidden in the undergrowth for a second time in my life...

Brind and I were about to write the adit off, thinking it was buried under the road, when OAM's perseverance paid off; returning with a grin and a "Found it." Brind and I happily followed his lead back to the adit, some 100 metres away from where the intel had said it was. Diving back underground, we found some timbering, a few short drifts, a couple of smaller stoped out areas, and a single leather miner's boot, long forgotten.

Not quite as much as we had hoped, but it was still a good reminder not to blindly trust the intel we get, even when it has GPS co-ordinates for us to reference. And the boot was a new one for me; haven't found one of those underground before!