Touring Tunnels
 

Let's see your pictures of tunnels you traveled on tour. Here's one from the Omaha Trail in Wisconsin.
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Wyoming, Highway 20
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Glacier National Park, Montana, Going to the Sun Road
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British Columbia, Highway 7
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Oregon, Highway 58
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Doug, your tunnel is bigger than mine, and I resent it!

One of two tunnels on the Allegheny River Trail between Franklin and Emlenton, PA:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=416028


At home I think I have some shots of one of the tunnels on the abandoned stretch of Pennsylvania Turnpike that I rode last year. They are a fun ride. The easterly tunnel is over a mile long. It is not lit and there is a crown closer to the eastern portal so when you enter it from the west, you literally cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm just reading a blog on CrazyGuyOnABike.com (Crazy guy and his daughter) about a man and his daughter who are biking around the world. Here is a link to a photo of theirs going through a tunnel in Italy. Sorry, I can't contribute my own photo or experience.

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/...size=large&v=2

Yah, I know. Sometimes it is hard for me to know when to quit:) No one-upmanship intended. I just like tunnel pictures, and we've ridden through a lot of them. I try to get good shots when we have the opportunity to ride through them. Consequently, I have a lot of tunnel pictures.

Doug

No pictures from me either, but my two worst tunnels were the one coming out of Heathrow Airport and the one on Rt 1 in Iceland just past Hofn

https://www.google.com/maps/@64.2826...zNHoNta6-w!2e0

http://ziligy.com/photos/posts/HellsGateTunnel.jpg
Hell's Gate in British Columbia

http://www.ziligy.com/photos/posts/T...Summer2007.jpg

Blue Ridge Parkway - one of many I went through

Mine is even bigger. Resent THIS.

In British Columbia they travel on the left side of the road?

The Philtrons have just ridden the new toll road from Mazatlan to Durango, Mexico. A true adventure:

The Philtrons Pedal South: Day 177 - Mazatlan to Cuota km 195: The beginning of an incredible ride.

The two tunnels on the abandoned section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. One is about 3,800' and the other about 5.400'. Neither are lit. A very bright headlamp was sufficient. To keep orientation, I simply followed the old median stripe that is still visible. The temperature outside was in the 80s. Inside it was about 55-60. The hope is to one day turn as much of the right-of-way as possible into an "official" bike path. If you ever ride PA Bike Route S, the right of way is a great way to avoid a nasty climbing section heading east from Breezewood.

One of the tunnel portal areas was used in the post-apocalyptic film "The Road" starring Viggo Mortensen. Very fitting.

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Inside Big Savage on the GAP:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=416090

Earlier this year, I watched a YouTube video of a fellow who toured from Bergen Norway to Nordkapp along which he had to go through several tunnels. The last one is the longest of them, 6.875km (23,556ft) in length and drops from sea level to 212m (696ft) below sea level (Wikipedia). At the entrance to the tunnel is a sign warning of a 9% grade!!! The first stage of the Arctic Tour of Norway went up to Nordkapp through that tunnel. Bringing it back to touring, I'd love to make that trip from Bergen to Nordkapp.

southern china, chongqing province crossing into guiyang province.

they done built a new 4-lane highway, freshly-paved and almost
no traffic (which runs on a parallel expressway!) highway runs under
a mountain range through a series of tunnels, well-lit with regularly
spaced breakdown turnouts.

first tunnel is 4,845 meters (slightly over 3 freakin' miles!.....15,895'),
followed by a couple hundred meter open gap to catch your breath, and
then you get another shorter tunnel, this one only 2521 meters (about
1.5 miles or 8271'). after that you have another half dozen or so closely-
spaced tunnels, mostly around 1000 meters so not really worth mentioning.

best part, if you're heading south, it's all downhill!!!! takes 15 minutes to
zoom through the first tunnel.


bigger is not always bester, though. i think the absolutely coolest tunnel
was the one into milford sound, new zealand south island. before it was
refurbished, it was unlit, unpaved, with water leaking from the ceiling and
chucks of rock littering the floor.

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Tunnels are generally my nemesis (I hate being underground). The only one nearby that I would possible have to deal with, the Whittier Tunnel, is closed to bicycles. It is the only thing keeping me from being able to access the Alaska Marine Highway System by bike within a day's ride, without having to arrange a lift from someone.

An intersting side note for you. Due to how the town was established, and subsequent land and terrain issues, almost every resident in Whittier, Alaska lives in the same building.

No, there is usually only one way through for pedestrian and bikes. They direct you to the side with the bike lane, often against traffic.

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BigAura, Where were you heading? You must have also gone through the rest of the tunnels: China Bar, Yale, Alexandrea, Saddle Mtn? There might have been more.

2013- It looks like they did some improvements on the road since you went through. Actually I'm not sure the "improvement" was really and improvement.
http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...bbafa2cfcc.jpg

been through the Oregon ones, but I still like this photo from somewhere in the Pyrenees, one of my favorite trip photos.

Just a few R2T tunnels:

Tunnel Hill Trail - southern Illinois

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=416168

Elroy Sparta trail in Wisconsin

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=416169

and this one needs not mentioning to those in the east

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=416170

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/pics...P0688.JPG?v=7q

In coal region of China a little west of Xian on TDA trip in 2007. What made that one, and earlier one that day, interesting was a huge traffic jam of backed up truck traffic, coal dust and no lights cycling through the tunnel with the traffic. More complete journal here: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/..._id=66557&v=7R

I was on my Seattle WA to Deadhorse AK, tour. I did do others that you mentioned too.

I like tunnels, because they literally and figuratively focus your mind.

Also, they can cool your body. This is the Stewart Tunnel on the Badger State Trail in Wisconsin. It was in the 90's that day, but inside the tunnel it was only in the 50's. I stopped, got out my camp chair, and read and chilled for a good half hour. It was very refreshing.
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Was on the C&O, do not recall which tunnel it was.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=416216

That would be the Paw Paw tunnel.

Mine from the Brush Tunnel on the GAP..

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Man... I've never been touring in a tunnel! What a cool thread though!

I want to contribute! This section of the rail trail near Northampton, MA has an old steel frame bridge that forms a kind of "green" tunnel, since foliage grows on all sides, and over the top. It's a beautiful and surreal riding experience. This is us on our 1,500 mile loop of the Northeast. Sorry for the funky tilt/shift setting, I was still learning to shoot back then...

http://i.imgur.com/3sMFfrn.jpg