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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 2727 on 9/3/2009 11:51 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | And thank you, KK. I think Bootleg was joking. Now, the Cook Street Chasm. Lots of fun. That big chamber was thoroughly awesome. Personally, i thought the backbreaker was quite cool. Here's something interesting i've noticed: the sheer inaccuracy of Victoria's drain maps. I mean, they don't just have a wrong manhole location missing here or there. They have entire DRAINS missing on some maps! But the biggest inaccuracies seem to be on the size listings. For instance, my 2003 map shows the Dallas drain to be bigger than the Burrow of the Beast, despite being a near backbreaker! My 2003 map says one drain is a "TUNNEL DRAIN", yet another map in UVic library shows no drain at all! Anyways, one of my maps showed the Dallas system connecting to the Cook street System and a tunnel drain from the inner harbour, too. My newer map didn't say so; it said the cook street chasm was only 3.5 feet tall, was separated by 10 feet of rock from the north end of the Dallas drain. An old 1966 map said there was concrete pipes under Cook Street, but the map was vague and not too clear to know for sure. Soooo.......this is what we found. We're pretty sure the Chasm hooks up (via a 3 footer offshoot RCP we saw) to a large drain which drains into the Harbour. Then, going south, when the brick ended, we got to a very large concrete pipe.....by now we had already gone well past the supposed "gap" that was shown on my 2003 map.......and the concrete pipe just kept on going, and going, and going, and going......and i realized we were quite well into the northern section of the Dallas drain, and were already in a section that all of my maps agree is walkable......it was so long, we just had to turn back, because we were running out of time-daybreak soon! So, while i still have a bit of "mop-up" searching left to do, i'm pretty damn sure that, if you were willing to crawl a (very short) 3 footer section, you could totally walk from Downtown to Dallas Road, or head up north onto cook street, underground, uninterrupted. Which means this system is considerably longer than the Burrow of the Beast. That's pretty punk, ain't it???? Anyways, a great pleasure to explore with you, SourDiesel. You rock!
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 2729 on 9/8/2009 6:45 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Finally got around to doing the "mop-up" work last night on the Dallas-Cook Chasm-Downtown drain- system. Sure enough, i was wrong. The drain that flows into the inner harbour does NOT connect to the Cook Street Chasm. Contrary to some maps, there is definitely a gap, unfortunately. That means you cannot walk from Downtown to Dallas underground, uninterrupted. However, the Chasm DOES connect to the Dallas system. The Dallas- C.S.C. system--yep, it connects, there's only a very short section in the northern part of the Dallas system that i haven't been in, and all of my maps unanimously 100% agree that that section is walkable (which, after physically seeing both ends of that section, also does physically look surefire obvious). And it's still longer than the Burrow of the Beast. And honestly, if you were really die-hard, and wanted to be underground as much as possible.....it's only like, a one and a half block aboveground dash from the downtown drain the to D/C.S.C. RE: Just wanted to follow up on that post.......just so as not to sound like some arrogant kid posting incorrect and exaggerated claims about the drains. After all, that's what the TunnelsTM are for! Hope y'all had a nice Labour Day. Skool. *sigh*
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 2738 on 9/14/2009 7:56 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by pandar OK so I have been reading this forum for about 2 months now and i am finally going to post something. I heard about the Vic Secret Tunnels a looong time ago but i thought it was a load of crap until i googled it and came across this. I would go explore things myself because i LOVE secret stuff and old buildings, however i have some serious arachnaphobia and im a little clusterphobic. I saw some of the spider pictures you guys have put up, and ill stay the hell away from those places, thanks. the whole secret tunnel thing facinates me though, like, where are they, do they actually exist? ( not that im expecting anyone who knows to tell me) anyways,I can imagine the city of victoria just LOVES you guys creepin around drains at night. | what they dont know, wont hurt, as long as nobody knows your down there theres no problem. problems start when people start randomly popping out of manholes in random area's or when manhole cover's are left off *frowns* Anyways i fully believe these tunnel's exist along with many other type's of tunnels under this city, although i havent found much yet im working on it and one day hope i will find some of these mysterious entrances. woot for searching threw the rugged archives either way welcome SD
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