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| 1 2 3 4 | UER Forum > UE Main > How Many People Do You Generally Explore With? (Viewed 15918 times) |
Chreeis
Location: Queens, NY Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | Re: How Many People Do You Generally Explore With? < Reply # 43 on 6/15/2014 5:43 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by wackypanda usually one extra. Not many people I know are a) interested and b) ballsy enough to come
| Agreed, thats the issue that I'm facing right now. Havent done any exploring since I was younger, so the small crew I had before has fallen apart from a lack of interest, moving, and one particular guy being on probation and not wanting to do anything that could be even considered illegal(cant blame a guy for that). Posted by tranqfx I've never explored alone. Always with one other person. This is for a few reasons. One, he's a good friend and it's something we like doing together. Two, he has training in areas of infiltration and I don't. Three and likely most importantly, it's easier to constantly have eyes on what is going on in and around the facility. While I'm taking pictures, he's still scouting the surroundings and maintaining watchful eyes, or vice-versa.
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Definitely good to keep someone like that around!
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| stickbeat
Location: Peterborough Gender: Female Total Likes: 25 likes
| | | Re: How Many People Do You Generally Explore With? < Reply # 54 on 7/30/2014 2:09 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Ellephant As a really tiny female it was pretty dumb of me to have gone on solo explorations the first few times I went, but now I wouldn't have it any other way. As said tiny female walking around alone, I've found I can get away with an absolutely absurd amount of trespassing without anyone even raising an eyebrow. Like, to the point that I "conned" a police officer into helping me climb a fence out of an abandoned factory. I put the word conned in parentheses just there because I didn't actively do any convincing; just being female was enough to emanate a glowing aura of innocence around me. Apparently. Another fun thing to do is to ask security guards why they're guarding the building, and when they answer, go "oh wow, really? how do they get inside??" I swear the guards give me helpful, legit answers nine times out of ten. One day I'll probably get thrown in jail, and I'll know it's my own fault. But until then, I'll probably keep exploiting being tiny and female.
| As a similarly small-proportioned woman, I agree with you 100%. The only thing less threatening that a small woman is a small child, so people are almost always willing to give you a pass (nine times out of ten - then that tenth time can go pretty bad). I started exploring in small groups, with other teenage runaways led by an older punk-dude. He taught us how to set up squats and maintain them for safety & security, and sanitation. We'd stay in a place for three or four days then move on, and each of us would drift and out of squatting as we were able to find couchsurfs or even set up permanent housing for ourselves. Once I got comfortable I started exploring on my own and setting up my own places to stay. It was a bit safer than going with the others. Skip forward years later when I'm in Asia, and I mostly explored alone. That said, once I had a few favourite locations I'd take guys along on dates. Some thought it was awesome, others thought it was madness. I got a few second dates out of it, though, so there's that. I also went crawling with a larger group of punk-rock heathens in Manila for a bit. In Detroit I went it alone, and one time escorted a group of would-be explorers that I met at the hostel (NEVER AGAIN). Now in Toronto, I'm mostly going with people I meet on this board, and sometimes my lover likes to tag along as well. Seems like smaller groups of 2 ~ 4 are best in this context. Now that I'm learning the lay of the land, I might like to go it alone a bit more often.
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| Spotlight_Buddha
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada Gender: Male Total Likes: 3 likes
| | | Re: How Many People Do You Generally Explore With? < Reply # 55 on 8/1/2014 5:03 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by stickbeat Now in Toronto, I'm mostly going with people I meet on this board...Seems like smaller groups of 2 ~ 4 are best in this context.
| Agreed. Two or Three people seems to be the sweet spot for UrbEx The largest group I've gone exploring with has been 4 people, however, I would love to find a location that could move more people safely and securely for... Oh, I don't know, perhaps a dance party?...(A la Catacombs du Paris) Just haven't found a site like that in this city. (Yet) XD
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| azuro1125
Location: Passing Oaks Gender: Male Total Likes: 113 likes
| | | | | Re: How Many People Do You Generally Explore With? < Reply # 59 on 8/5/2014 2:30 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Usually solo. Whenever possible, I try to explore with my two boys. They are 14 and 10, so they can handle some stuff, but not the true scary crap that I sometimes stumble across. If I take them, its usually to spots that are visible and legit to access. Or, I'll scout an off limits location first before coming back with them. Some abandonments are better than the local museum, and I like showing them how life was before Internet and other electronics. I have seen some crazy -ish though. My thing is remote, secluded ranch houses that are way off the beaten path. You find a lot of them in central California just by tooling around on Google Earth. I found a dilapidated ranch house that was abandoned so long ago, it never even had electricity or phone hooked up to it! In that area, it would put it abandoned around the late 30's or so. Anyhoo, I drive my little car two miles into this place on sketchy dirt roads, and get out to take a look around. Not much is left of the place, and the building is falling in on itself. There are tons of cool things still. Just as I am setting up some good shots in the front yard, a scruffy, skinny man steps out from behind a water tank and starts waving his arms and screeching at me! He looked homeless, but the typical homeless don't usually camp out way in the middle of nowhere. I was two miles in on a dirt road that was thirty miles from the nearest town. I have no idea why he was there, or even what he was saying. I sprinted to my car like Carl Lewis and bailed out. I bounced down that country road so much, I had to stop at the main road to make sure I still had an oil pan. I have seen enough versions of "The Hills Have Eyes" to know that some freaky stuff must have been going down out there. Ever since that incident, I tend to trust city dwelling homeless and scrappers more than the people in remote abandonments. If someone is one hour from the nearest gas station, they don't wanna be messed with : ) Sorry, tl;dr.
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