This night started at an abandoned Westinghouse factory, with the intentions of exploring an old tunnel that runs underneath it. This plan changed when we found the entrance to it sealed off. We sat and brainstormed on what we could do. Spin steel wool in the factory? Nah we have done that many times already. Then I remembered about the tunnel that starts at the base of one of my favorite waterfalls (Westcliffe falls).
The tunnel is a urban creek (meaning the creek has been diverted underground) and starts at the base of the waterfall and runs underneath Chedoke golf course. Neither of us have explored it before, so we made the half hour walk to it. We found a manhole and went down.
We were instantly greeted by a tunnel style that neither my friend or I, have ever seen before. The walls and floor are ribbed with a space for water to run down the middle.
And of course some of the usual creepy crawlies.
As we walked the ribbed walls and floor turned into a regular rectangle, and we hoped that it would get taller (the hole tunnel is about 5 feet tall) but it didn't until the end.
Then we reached the end. A large cement wall with two grooves for the water to run through.
Despite it being taller in this area, it was still very thin. Which would make spinning steel wool very difficult, but we tried anyway!
After trying those shots, we shifted to light painting the inflow and still trying steel wool.
This was a very tight and interesting explore with some great photo results! Will I do this tunnel again? Probably not lol but it still made for a fun night underground!
