Teri and I went on of those hikes that you had to do, but will never do again! Ever! Really the challenge was in the heat. We're used to heat and workouts, but that day it was 109 in the
shade, no breeze. There was no shade for u
s
s except in the
railroad tunnels.
At Lake Mead Recreation area, there's the "Historic Railroad Trail". They made a railroad to bring supplies to Hoover Dam when they were building it. Since then, railroad has been removed, and turned into a trail (2.7 miles each way). You end up hiking through 5 tunnels. One of the tunnels had a warning??
Along the way you see large round cement "plugs" cast down the side of enbankment. These were taken out of Hoover Dam to install the large turbines.
We started off the hike laughing, joking about the silliest things. Really silly. By the time we're finishing off we're afraid if we slowed down we'd get heat stroke - no, I'm not kidding!
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