Moonwalking in the Hoover

5 Mar 2013

Fortunately Dave let us use the elevators. By the time we were at the bottom of our tour we had descended several hundred feet below the dam’s top and we walked one lateral to within 45’ of the waters of Lake Mead

Here’s a little drawing I whipped up:

Each state has a turbine room. This is the Nevada side.

Interesting but not electrifying (sorry).

This is Dave trying to get our attention.

Something about the height of the ventilation shaft we were about to enter:

Ouch!

Here’s where we ended up in the vent tunnel looking from outside:

This is what it looked like from the inside:

Looking down –

Is that an escape rope? Looks a bit short.

And up –

Afterwards, to take our minds off the vent shaft trauma Dave showed us how to simultaneously walk backwards and lecture - on our way to the tunnel that would get us very deep and close to Lake Mead.

No really - it did look like a moonwalk to me. Our reward at the end of this walk was a look up what they call “the stairway to heaven”

This downward part must be to that other place…