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passed this nice sub on the way out


turned off at Carolin mine, up to Ladner creek


the Coquihalla hiway over Ladner creek

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we have to get up to the old railbed, steep and rocky, but not very far.
up to the hiway


some lose rock at the beginning


then it turns into about a 50 degree trail

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then we hit another rocky area


and some more steep stuff...

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and here we are pretty quickly at the railbed....


here's a big old concrete retaining wall that held up one section of the tracks...

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found part of an old railroad tie


after a quick 20 min hike we hit tunnel #11, on the other side of this tunnel is the Ladner bridge

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not sure when the orig tunnel was built (late 1800's maybe?), but they left the first timber framed tunnel and put this concrete one over it later in '49. i climbed up to the roof and could see the orig tunnel threw a bunch of holes. don't ya just love (NOT) the fairy little graffitti some loser did on our history.....
when they stopped using the line, for safety's sake (?) they tried to blow the mountain down over the tunnel, which didn't really work so they filled up the tunnel instead, again for safety, their theory they will never be liable if the tunnel falls in on some poor slob walking threw it. now, you have to do an extremely dangerous climb over the tunnel, which i guess they figure is safer (?)


as you can see, extremely steep and loose ground every step
going up beside the tunnel

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as you can see it's pretty much strait up and down
there is no way you could climb this loose dirt without the wire strung up there


not a lot of room at the top, got to watch my son on this loose stuff- prob about 350 feet down to the creek.....