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26 Sep 2011, 8:08 pm

Crow_T_Robot wrote:

I'd need someone to go with me, obviously and I can't think of anyone who'd be up for that sort of thing.

Well, if you happen to live somewhere in the North Bay area of California...

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26 Sep 2011, 8:39 pm

Zokk wrote:

Crow_T_Robot wrote:

I'd need someone to go with me, obviously and I can't think of anyone who'd be up for that sort of thing.

Well, if you happen to live somewhere in the North Bay area of California...

Sadly, I'm a few thousand miles away.

There are a lot of really old buildings here on the river from back in the days of cotton and riverboats. Plus, there are a lot of abandoned buildings along the highways that have been in disuse since the interstate came through.

I really want to try exploring some of downtown Birmingham, but it's pretty rough.

Here are a couple from a forgotten little town close to where I live:

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27 Sep 2011, 6:45 am

^ The bottom photo is really cool looking, Crow.

I should have some old pictures somewhere around here myself. I use to do some PK stuff years ago with a couple of friends but that's before it was even called that. One of them had worked in a movie studio as a stunt man some, so we would do some jumps and rolls and other little things, it was fun. I'm don't know about jumping railcars while the train is moving. I guess it would depend how fast they were moving. The cars aren't really that far from each other and I have jumped further I'm sure up on top of roofs. I doubt I would try it now anyway, unless it was a life or death thing.

Some place that are tagged quite a bit are almost like visiting an art gallery.

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27 Sep 2011, 12:00 pm

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^ The bottom photo is really cool looking, Crow.

I should have some old pictures somewhere around here myself. I use to do some PK stuff years ago with a couple of friends but that's before it was even called that. One of them had worked in a movie studio as a stunt man some, so we would do some jumps and rolls and other little things, it was fun. I'm don't know about jumping railcars while the train is moving. I guess it would depend how fast they were moving. The cars aren't really that far from each other and I have jumped further I'm sure up on top of roofs. I doubt I would try it now anyway, unless it was a life or death thing.

Some place that are tagged quite a bit are almost like visiting an art gallery.

Thanks! I wanted to go in, but it was getting dark and my old Soviet camera doesn't do very well in low light.

Grafitti tagging is so cool. I have quite a bit of respect for people who do it well and tag crazy locations. There's an abandoned warehouse near here with a tower of some sort that's 40-50 feet up and accessible only via a rusty old ladder. Somebody managed to tag the side of the tower so it's visible from the highway. Pretty badass.

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27 Sep 2011, 1:03 pm

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there was a tv show "cities of the underground" ??(name escapes me) built on ruins of previous one.

There was a History Channel series called Cities of the Underworld which explored the structures that lie underneath famous cities. I have three seasons on DVD; don't know how long it ran.

Thanks for the great photos.

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27 Sep 2011, 1:19 pm

Thank you so much for posting pics, Zokk, Hyperexian and Crow! They are so cool!

I wish I had someone who wanted to go UE'ing with me.

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27 Sep 2011, 1:51 pm

the_curmudge wrote:

gadge wrote:

there was a tv show "cities of the underground" ??(name escapes me) built on ruins of previous one.

That kind of thing fascinates me to no end. My mom says that beneath the streets of the town she grew up in, there are brick cisterns that the Confederacy used to store weapons and supplies. When she was a kid, someone's car apparently fell through the street into one of them.

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27 Sep 2011, 4:23 pm

what a fascinating topic. i think the holy grail in london terms would be the disused tube (subway) stations and the supposedly top secret network of underground passages that the the government/royalty are supposed to have. I think every large, old city has that rumour.

Sometimes ive sneaked a little way past teh danger signs into the shooting club - its a huge wasteground area shielded from the outside world by a huge embankment, they have all those watchtower things dotted around the perimeter, so you can pretend your behinf enemy lines in a WW2 film.

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27 Sep 2011, 4:45 pm

Exploring: it's one of those things that I always want to do, but never seem to get the chance.

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27 Sep 2011, 5:56 pm

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I used to chat with a Russian guy on a UE forum who'd explored Metro 2 extensively. Of course, the guy was nuts, and explored the active Metro lines, too. As in, the ones that still had trains running through them ever few minutes.

Some of the underground places I've been to are insane, as well. Huge rooms, miles of tunnels and passageways, all left mostly forgotten under the city.

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27 Sep 2011, 7:16 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

Thank you so much for posting pics, Zokk, Hyperexian and Crow! They are so cool!

I wish I had someone who wanted to go UE'ing with me.

thanks for the compliment! i am itching to go exploring again too. it's too bad we all live so far apart or we could all explore together!

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28 Sep 2011, 5:07 am

^That would be really cool. I really don't know anyone here either who would want to go do something like that other than my ex-husband and that ain't gonna happen.

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29 Sep 2011, 1:22 pm

I like to explore urban areas in general, but I don't go into caves, sewers, etc.

I like to explore parks, trails, lakes rivers, downtowns, etc.

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