of my adventures, this one was rather pleasant. I have heard
stories and seen pictures around camp of this long abandoned
railroad bed and tunnel on property near our club grounds.
Although we do not own the property we do have permission
to ride on it's many trails. The problem is that it is really deep
in the woods and extremely hard to find. Plus the trails leading
down to it are a bit treacherous. Now taking into consideration
the fact that I sometimes get lost going to the grocery store, I
never felt comfortable enough to go looking for it by myself.
This past weekend when the subject was brought up two of the
guys that stopped to share our morning campfire offered to take
me and a couple friends down and show us it's location.
What a blast we had. Although the trails were pretty steep
and washed out they were passable and only once did we get
a bike stuck. (not mine of course .. I let others test the waters
first) Once down in the bottom we followed the old RR bed
up along a creek that we must have crossed six or eight times.
I lost count .. and finally came to a tunnel carved out of solid
sandstone. Not a huge tunnel but very interesting. So many
names and dates carved into the stone over the years, some
almost worn away from age. Although I didn't have a camera
with me I did take several shots with my phone including a few
selfies just to document the fact that I was there because I'll
probably never find it again..lol I would have liked to have
taken a few trail pictures but the only ones I could take were
of the tamer portions. The rest of the time I was just trying to
survive and keep up. If you think texting and driving are
dangerous try taking pictures from a bike on a washed out
trail with a fifty degree incline dropping into a creek bed.
But I did manage a couple to share plus a couple shots of the
tunnel itself. I definitely want to go back on a more relaxed
ride with a camera. There are so many interesting things in
that area that I would like to capture. 
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