Went exploring in an abandoned train tunnel at Donner Pass (yes, that Donner pass). I guess they've dug a deeper one that avoids having to use the snow sheds and such on the other side of this one, but they left the old tunnel there wide open for people to explore in.

So, Yesterday, me, my son and his friend Matt, took one of the most fun explorations I've done in quite a while. I going to put a couple more in my scraps, but essentially we had to sort of shimmy down a snow bank and then entered the tunnel which was less than 1/2 mile long, but I think longer than a quarter mile. The whole thing was covered with an almost flat sheet of ice for it's entire length. I've never seen anything like it. In the middle of the tunnel we came across this...which was very cool. Being boys, on the way back we tried to knock it down...figuring that it would grow back in a fairly short period. We were unsuccesful and probably a good thing too as it probably would have fallen on us (that's another thing we boys lack...).

Anyway, a good and close time was had by all. Part of what makes exploring fun is that it's a totally shared experience....