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Here's the entrance to the tunnel again. This is a really beautiful spot. There is a produce distributing warehouse at the top of the hill to the left, so the air was rich with the smell of fresh cantaloupe. |
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This square tunnel only runs for a hundred feet or so before you reach this culvert... |
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...And then you reach the big room. I'm trying to show the scale here, but the lighting didn't work. The tunnel I'm standing in is about 8 or 9 feet in diameter. |
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This is my favorite picture on this site
to date!
Here I am getting a GPS reading to figure out exactly where this room is (it's the same one as in the picture above; we came in through the culvert next to the ladder). It turned out this is just in the middle of a parking lot. I can't begin to imagine what someone would do if they dropped their car keys in! Get a clothes hanger?! |
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Before we checked out the big tunnel was standing in a couple images back, I checked out the smaller culvert to the left. It was a real backbreaker, about 4 feet high (note the plastic bottle for scale reference). |
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This is unbelievable. Another dead
end!!!
Whenever I see a tunnel with a dry floor, I can almost be sure I'm going to reach one of these. I don't know what to make of this. I crouched for 300 feet or more to reach this dead end. There was a fork a little further before this that didn't photograph as well and also dead ended. |
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So we returned to the larger tunnel and continued upstream. |
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It isn't especially clear, but here is another dead end side tunnel. This one was only 3 feet in diameter, but we have seen all sizes plugged with solid concrete, wood, cinder blocks, bricks, rebar rods, and any combination you can imagine. |
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