TUNNELS OF HOOVER DAM
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- In 1930 there was a railroad built from Bolder city to the Hoover Dam to train supplies for the construction of Hoover Dam. The trail now starts on Lake Shore Drive at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Alan Bible Visitor Center trailhead. You can also take the trail for the River Mountain Loop Trail which takes you to the hot springs on the Colorado River.
After the dam was completed in 1935, the railroad stopped running, and in 1962 the tracks were removed. Heading north there is 4 miles of trail leading through five railroad tunnels. Each of the five tunnels are 25 feet in diameter so large equipment could easily pass through.
I am trying to put up two videos a week, and will always have a video on Area 51 or the NTTR a week. There is just so much history in Nevada besides the Test Site, and it's been highly requested that I go back to showing the history of Nevada.
I hope you all enjoy the extra videos, and as always
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I love that your teenage son likes going with you on your adventures. He reminds me of my son. Good boy!! Quality time together like this is priceless ❤️❣️♥️
I won't be able to answer many comments until I get back to Vegas, but I will. You all should think about getting the app Sweatcoin that Sean was talking about. I've already made about 30 dollars. I'll be sending out emails to people as soon as I get home. Thank you all for watching, and enjoy the dam tour!!!
I read about the "Downwinders." Very interesting. Thank you, brother.
Christian, do you think the 2053+ nuclear tests (over a thousand in the US) had something to do with climate change? Is that why they are spraying in the atmosphere - is it to cover this up?
@@JNash317 It's very sad visiting Saint George. Almost everyone has had someone in their family directly affected from the tests.
I understand, Christian. You are a good family man, and you have a soul. I highly respect you. @@adventureswithchristian6967
@@adventureswithchristian6967 agreed!! My grandparents lived just outside of St. George. Ended up losing my grandmother to cancer in the early 90's
Christian - When I was six years old [I'm 60 now], we lived in Las Vegas for a year. At that time [1965] a narrow gauge railroad ran through those tunnels. I don't know when they removed it, but I still remember the small steam locomotive they used to pull open passenger cars along the route. We lived off Charlston Blvd., only one-half block from the edge of the desert. Today, the city goes on for miles and miles beyond the street we lived on. As a young child, I had a very serious medical condition that took away most of my eyesight. Shortly before we moved to Las Vegas, I had eye surgery that restored some of my sight [and even more in later years]. As a result, my first memories of seeing anything are memories of my eight year-old sister guiding me through the desert near our house. One funny memory of my childhood desert explorations is my mother constantly warning us to not go near any cars we found parked out there. In later years, my mom told us she was really worried we would come across a car with a dead body in it. The mafia, which controlled the Las Vegas back then, had a bad habit of leaving their victims in the desert.
I have friends that have lived here their entire lives, and your right about the mafia. When they would jetski, and wipe out they were always nervous about a body floating near them. In those days the mafia made a lot of concrete boots. While excavating for new projects they find human bones a lot.
Sorry about your eye sight!!
Your son is so lucky to have a dad like you. My dad was cool like you... I love your videos..Thanks
Thanks so much for this video. I had no idea there was an informative trail there. I've been on the dam tour 3 times, once as a child, then as an adult. The last time we went, a lady was freaking out when entering the elevator. Her friends were trying to calm her down, stating everything is ok. She was claustrophobic, and the second that door closed, and we started to move, she fainted dead away. What an experience.
Excellent video Christian love the history of the Hoover Dam and how it was built that makes your channel a lot different the most channels the variety and BTW it's good to see a father and son bonding your son seems to be a fine young man
ONE OF YOUR BEST VIDEOS GUYS, I HAVE ALWAYS WAITED FOR THE NEXT ONE. 🇺🇸🐏💨
Thanks Christian..... great video...Safe travels..
Great video Christian,really enjoyed watching that.
Thank you Scott!!!
Wow what a beautiful hike. The colors and the different rock formations were amazing. Thank you for sharing the history of Nevada.❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Christian and Sean for another fascinating video, full of amazing scenery and history from the best explorer on RUclips!
Hi Christian! Thanks for uploading another excellent and educational video. I always look forward your vids. I am positively never disappointed! I think its great the way that Sean comes along with you for the ride and how you're still able to make your viewers feel as though we are right there along for the ride. I know that Hoover Dam has a lot of history behind it and through it as it was being built. It was truly exceedingly difficult for the workers of that time. You were able to catch a bit of what remains of that. As always, thanks for thee upload. I look forward to your next video. You're great!
nice job Christian and Sean, one of the best videos for a while. Love the history vids and always nice when you go with Sean.
Great views! Thank you for posting Christian!
A fun day . Thanks for taking us along !!!
Hey Christian just wanted to thank you for making these great videos. Living in a small county town in England this is the closest someone like me will ever get to see such marvellous sights. Cheers mate and keep up the great work brother. S.T. 4 life
Hey Christian,I’m really looking forward to watching this video later here in 🏴,The Hoover Dam has always been somewhere I’ve wanted to visit & Hopefully 1 day I will so thanks for this.
Thank you, Christian. Wonderfull place. I hope to visit some day!
Great find🌵👍Thank you for sharing with us❣️📽️🙃
Tyvm for another great video love stuff about Hoover dam and you showed is things I never knew existed
Thank you for another excellent video sir!
Fantastic hike Christian, just beautiful country, really love the info. My kind of hike for sure, take care buddy!!
Interesting video. It’s amazing how much the water level has dropped since it was built. It sure is some beautiful territory!
I just feel like a camo dude is watching Christian somewhere 💥
They may have snuck a tracker onto to his truck so who knows lol
He Is !!!
Or a tarantula.. 🏃🏃🏃
Lovely tour, you two are the best guides out there..;)
Thanks for keeping it up guys!
Thank you for showing the history. I would never had know all that existed if you hadn't of taken the dam tour 🤗 whoo hooo your son did it on his 2nd try 👍😁😎 he's one to watch out for!
Very interesting video Christian 😀☺️
This is awesome, thank you Christian!
Very nice video Christian and Shawn or Sean. I love the lure of the desert.
Awesome video Christian keep up the great work
Tanks for nice trip. god to hear you woice to. Norway follow you
Good video. Very interesting to watch. Thanks Christian :)
All the years I lived in Las Vegas and never knew that trail and old tunnels was there. Nice video
To be honest most Las Vegans don't know. Just park at the visitor center just before Lake Mead, and it's a very nice, and easy walk.
Thank you for watching!!!
Videos are great. Always looking for notifications for your channel!!!
Great work Christian!
This was an interesting subject and great analysis, another one out of the ballpark Christian
Looks like colored sprayed gunite on those rock surfaces to control falling rocks. Nice video!
Shotcrete
I'm not even there, but the sound of the power lines lins makes me feel uneasy, until you enter the caves.
Where do I get some dam bait?....LOL (Randy Quaide!) Thanx for taking us on this hike! I hope to visit that area sometime in the future but don't think I'd be able too make that hike so thanx again! Keep the good videos coming !
Someone is almost as tall as his Dad... Fun video, thanks!
Good work .
I came back from there Sunday , not much water left now
You got a good son there, Christian. God bless.
Thank you for the great tour
Yeah man, Those sheep are badass !!!
This was a great viedo i learned a lot. Great to see sean. Looks like you both jad a great time. Keep up tje great work cant waite till the next viedo. Ne safe both of you.
You’re so knowledgeable. That’s why I enjoy watching your channel. I always enjoy seeing you spend time with your son also.
Loving the history lesson Christian you should do more videos on the history of Las Vegas and surrounding area. Keep it up buddy
Thanks for the dam tour 😂 sounds like you had a great time man that rebar is old never seen it square take care ✌️🤙
I remember you could see the Lake from The back patios @ Lake Las Vegas the water ran up not far away and now you almost can’t even see the Lake from there anymore.
I already know this but it’s still blows my mind.
It’s going down so fast I can’t believe there’s still water @ all.
Was the largest man made Lake in the world @ 1x.
Another great video as always. And killer shirt on Sean.
It's funny the oceans are rising but the inland lakes are being emptied... It's also how unbelievable soft we have become compared to 100 years ago... Have a great day...
That was fascinating! 👍
I'm gonna go there in summer on a planned roadtrip
Happy Wednesday from Dubai Super video as always Christian! really amazing place 😊
I have the same T-Shirt your son has. I'm a Death fan too. Love your channel.
Was he wearing that shirt? I like hard music, but not that hard. Sean had me watch the documentary on him which was good, and sad. Died far to early. I had never heard of the band until he told me about them. Then at the Slayer show last week he kept pointing out all their shirts.
Thank you, nice hike my friend. That spider web hanging off you would of had me feeling imaginary spiders for the rest of the hike. BTW that looked like tinted Shotcrete sprayed over the rock to stabilize the rock but I haven’t been there to see it in person.
The square rebar was made by hand. At that time all iron was forged by hand. Currently rebar is pressed by machine.
Plane/Moon shot was a Great shot ! Lucky, dude. Raised in L.A. but you have given more Cool info on the dam than I ever knew. Been there and toured it as a kid. Never where you went. Really informative and great scenes. In the future, like your hand on the post in the tunnel, give me five seconds, minimum , per scene. And a tripod.would be very useful. Otherwise, you have a knew subscriber ! Keep 'em coming.
You can catch the trail at the parking lot of a hotel called The Hacienda. It's not a hard hike in terms of elevation gain, it's relatively flat. but remember you will be walking 4+ miles in the Nevada heat which can be down right brutal. When I hiked it, it was it was 90+ around Oct 1st when I reached the last tunnel right before the trail ends at the upper parking lot of the Nevada side of the Hoover dam a monsoon hit hard. The temperature change was pretty drastic, walking back the temp was down but it was humid as hell. It's a good walk with alot interesting stuff on the side of the trail left over from construction of the dam.
Dam good video buddy, cherish the time with the boy... They grow up fast!
Great video! Very interesting view of the geology of the area. Still half expected some camo dudes lol
CHRISTIAN GOOD To Hear You. God Blue You And Son
Great Video Christian ✌😁 it's snowing in Denver again Mush snowing & a lot of rain, I just walk in it, this is werid stuff & it's 36°F .
Nice job got to get out there and check it out
That buzzing you hear from the power lines is called corona discharge
The China virus? Bus hasn't taken me yet
@@adventureswithchristian6967 no it's actually called corona discharge look it up when I was in Chicago I heard a buzzing noise when I was under the high voltage main lines I never heard them doing that in my home town cause I live in a small town so looked up why they where doing it that's when I found out about the corona discharge sometimes the lines will glow a blue or violet blue
Man id love to go there !
Loving the tour keep up the great chris
I wish I knew about this place when I lived in Vegas.
Another awsome video
Hey Christian, with all of you A51 adventures, and other places, have you ever done any geocaching? It's great fun, and when I was out that way earlier this year, I was absolutely amazed at the amount of cache locations around Rachel, and all along ET highway, and 93. There's even a large geocache inside the Little A'le'inn that I left a few swag items in. I wonder if they are still there...
Dammm....
Call Ville Bay was the spot.
Such a trip.
It was, and was a big place for kids to go during spring break. It's sad how the Lake is, and it's just going to get worse.
Thank you
Another extremely interesting video of yours. What were we listening for as you walked through the first tunnel ? As long as you keep making these videos then i will watch them.
Wow seeing the web is bigger wow
great video sir. that is a nice area.
I would have heard that and been out of that tunnel so fast lol
Putting shotcrete over the inside of the tunnels to keep small loose rocks from falling is still a common practice in road and railroad tunnels.
Awesome
Wish I can visit the Hoover Dam but I'll be going to Tikaboo Peak in June with a few friends.
Read an interesting story on how hard hats got their start during the construction of the Hoover dam, workers would dip their hats in tar, let it harden and use them for protection from all the fallen rocks!
That’s interesting information. Necessity is the mother of invention,eh?
Good video brother keep up the good work.
Maybe it belongs to Spider-man that bit of webbing. Your videos are always very interesting & informative. You're better at ground level rather than a helicopter ride over it. You see more walking about I'd imagine.
Great video! Always like to see Sean with you! Was wondering, why is Lake Mead losing water? Is it just evaporating?
Very interesting
domage que mon ordi ne marche pas pour traduire en francais ce que vous expliquez Christian , car c'est un bon reportage , merci pour ce que vous faites ! encore encore !!
i dont wanna crytice your videos. they are awesome like always. but don't you own a 4k camera now? i wish you could enable 4k quality on your videos. all i can choose is 1080p
If you ever get a snake on camera could you put a warning sign up please, keep up the great work 🙂👌🏻
Hi Christian, what happened to your Tikaboo Peak post??
Go to my Facebook page, and you'll see a lot.
Every time I see a white pickup truck in my neighborhood I think it's a camo dude!.. I really got to quit smoking weed ha ha ha
Awesome video , Btw do you ever hear from Brian Noel or do you know what happened to him ? Haven't seen him online for 8 months now. Hope he is ok he was an interesting man .
Weird the lake is so low. California had so much rain this winter and spring. Figured you guys would have got some of that too.
We did, but rain doesn't help the lake much. It's the snowpack in Colorado that fills the lake.
What's the deal with the third tunnel. Was it closed?
Eye hiked this same trail with my son back in the 90's . . . . . . always looking over my shoulder for Clint Eastwood on his chopper outrunning the other chopper in the air that was shooting at him = a scene from The Gauntlet ((70's)) was filmed right there on the trail, other parts of Vegas & Red Rock too. The trail ended when you got to one of the tunnels that was completely sealed up BLM style. Wondering if that's still the case ?
Hi Christian
I be receiving a notification that u have uploaded a blog called tikkabo pik ,but went i gone to view it saying that this video is been taken off ,is it by u or RUclips?i don't know what's going on but hope u OK x
Were good thank you. Please go over to my Facebook page where I put up a lot from that day.
Those other Harbors at the lake that are shut down is it due to the low level of water?
Hey Christian conditions are good out at hoover dam,was it a long hike ?
It's almost 4 miles one way, but one of the tunnels is being repaired. Simple hike, but in another week I don't think I would recommend doing it. It's getting hot!
Thank you for watching Christian
So in total it’s 8 miles hike, how long you staying around the area for ?
Hey Christian, I want to let you know other RUclips channel has claimed first live feed from tikaboo peak, thanks Cynan
@@cyxnn0328 Its already been done by Dahboo77. I just left tikaboo peak, and didn't see anyone.
Oh ok, was just confused because user deleted the video, thanks Christian
Bummed I missed the Tikaboo Peak video you posted earlier...says Video Unavailable...
It was a failed attempt at doing a live stream from Tikaboo Peak. Go to my Facebook page where I posted a lot of what we did. I'll be posting videos also.
Oh good. I don’t do Facebook so pleased to know something will be on RUclips. Yippee!
Walking through those tunnels would be a bad time to get ground tremors !!!
Where your talking about the snake area looks like an ambush zone !!!
What was the noise inside the tunnel?
That boulder at 18:29 looks like a reptilian alien from Star Trek.