A Walk Through the Woods

For the second weekend in a row our crew drove up into the forest.  In the mountains on the other side of the lake huge forest cover hundreds of square miles.  We found another amazing path.  Walking in the mountains is a entirely different world from down here in the desert.  Some of the trees up there are hundreds of years old.  The National Forest Service has areas designated wilderness.  Once you get into the wilderness you see the nomaker is justified.  The path we took lead into a heavenly valley with a mountain stream.  Some lucky person had a cabin in the midst of all this.  The day was perfect, with the sky cloudless and the temperature just right.  The air in a pine forest cannot be improved upon. 

As we first started the hike Kadizzle noticed a piece of pipe sticking out from the ground.  It seemed like it might be a part of some water system.  About a few hundred yards farther there appeared a cement box with a steel lid.  It was too heavy to open, so we went on.  Next we came across another box with a steel lid and Ken and Kadizzle managed to open it.  Here was a strange discovery.   A very well made concrete bunker lay underground.  Rebar was cast into the concrete for a ladder.  It was a deep and very large vault.  At one time it may have been a cistern, but now was empty.  The box like vault was very big.  This concoction in the woods would make the ideal hiding place or survival place in the next nuclear war Trump causes.  Someday Kadizzle will have to go back and go down into the thing.  As an old coal miner and safety guy Kadizzle knows going into any underground space can be dangerous.  Although the air might seem to be good it could be toxic.  Before entering some testing should be done and ventilation should be available.  It would be a great spot to build a cabin over.  You could have a secret trap door that know one would ever know there was a huge underground bunker under your floor.