HERE WE COME!

Going for a run to the famed Centralia mining town on fire and visit the graffiti highway. So many fun runs happening with this group I'm ready to burst!

Centralia is only 12 miles from my house.

When will you be there?

(09-13-2019, 07:21 PM)LKTraz Wrote: Centralia is only 12 miles from my house.

When will you be there?

We were there this past Saturday. Had a blast!

We did manage this:

   

LK, we may do this again next year. I'll let you know this time.

Cool.  It only takes me about 15 minutes to get up there.

What did you think about the "rockets"?  

(09-17-2019, 03:44 PM)LKTraz Wrote: Cool.  It only takes me about 15 minutes to get up there.

What did you think about the "rockets"?  

Rockets? Where? We didn't get to go where the smoking grounds were. We did hit up some mine tour though and for the life of me I forget the name of that mine. Brochure is in the truck with Matt who at this moment is at rehearsal. If we go again I'll let you know. We will be doing Yuengling again as a yearly thing.

LOL the "rockets" are a big string of spray painted dicks on the pavement.
Years ago some unknowing reporter type person took pics and thought they were graffiti paintings of rockets.

From the top of the hill you walk down about 800 or 900 feet to where the first big crack in the road is.  They are in that vicinity.
It's still above where any venting is going on as that is pretty far down and almost at the bottom of the hill.  This would be on the north side.

Big Crack :

   


Cock "rockets":


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With Blowin Smoke we had a band picture for our brochure taken at the big crack. The photographer stood on the paving on the right side of the pic I just posted here and we were on the burned out bank which is out of frame on the left.

Ah... those are all painted over now but yeah, there are dicks painted everywhere. What kind of stupid idiot thinks those are rockets:

Some inane bubble-headed twinkie girl posted that she liked all the "rockets" painted there but wondered why the big interest in "rockets". That was back around 2010 or so.

Trouble was that she ACTUALLY thought they were rockets!

(09-23-2019, 05:32 PM)LKTraz Wrote: Some inane bubble-headed twinkie girl posted that she liked all the "rockets" painted there but wondered why the big interest in "rockets". That was back around 2010 or so.

Trouble was that she ACTUALLY thought they were rockets!

omg how sad for her. I gotta say though that the graffiti there or out in any "country" setting is so much more immature than the stuff in the big cities.

Word has it from the guy at the mine tour that they are going to close that highway. Too many times they had to fly a chopper in there and medivac some dopey kid out of there that got themselves hurt on their dirt bikes or ATV's. LOL I told him that some cleverly placed fishing line should alleviate the problem over time.