Big abandoned building with a parking garage attached. No other POEs were available anywhere so we thought outside the box.
1. Up to the 2nd floor of parking garage, hoping to jump out onto the 1 story high roof of the connected building, a hallway type thing that leads to the main building. There was a fence by the roof part to prevent exactly what we wanted to try.
2. Climb out around the fence, no bid deal, a small jump onto the 1st floor roof.
3. Go across the roof, hitting the deck whenever a car drove by on the adjacent, rather active (for 2 AM) road.
4. Climb a ladder to the 2nd story section of roof to the main building.
5. Jump a gap between roofs over an ally with about a 2 story gap. Wasn't that dangerous, just daunting.
6. Jump down a story onto a lower roof level.
7. Lucky unlocked door into a maintenance area for the huge ventilation system.
8. Climb some weird ass ladders down to the lowest level of the vents.
9. Enter random vent, crawl to finish, kick off door, access complete.

Another time I climbed between two buildings up a story, chimney style, to get to an open window, then went down and unlocked the front door for my friends.

Once walked up some crumbling cement stairs that were over the side of a cliff, hundreds of feet above the ocean, in the wind.

Got this shot out of it though:

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Posted by TD Big abandoned building with a parking garage attached. No other POEs were available anywhere so we thought outside the box. 1. Up to the 2nd floor of parking garage, hoping to jump out onto the 1 story high roof of the connected building, a hallway type thing that leads to the main building. There was a fence by the roof part to prevent exactly what we wanted to try. 2. Climb out around the fence, no bid deal, a small jump onto the 1st floor roof. 3. Go across the roof, hitting the deck whenever a car drove by on the adjacent, rather active (for 2 AM) road. 4. Climb a ladder to the 2nd story section of roof to the main building. 5. Jump a gap between roofs over an ally with about a 2 story gap. Wasn't that dangerous, just daunting. 6. Jump down a story onto a lower roof level. 7. Lucky unlocked door into a maintenance area for the huge ventilation system. 8. Climb some weird ass ladders down to the lowest level of the vents. 9. Enter random vent, crawl to finish, kick off door, access complete. Another time I climbed between two buildings up a story, chimney style, to get to an open window, then went down and unlocked the front door for my friends.

That's epic. I have yet to have any real crazy stories. Sounds like something out of a movie!

Posted by 13thmurder Once walked up some crumbling cement stairs that were over the side of a cliff, hundreds of feet above the ocean, in the wind. Got this shot out of it though: click to view

Looks like it was worth it! Great view. A great mix of urbex and nature.

A few months back we made it our goal to get into a local factory. We only knew that the way in was on the side by the railroad tracks, on the other side of which is a active factory.

We walked up a set of stairs from the road onto a platform of sorts, which was level with the 1st floor of the building. It's a solid 20 foot drop down to the ground level and we can't really see if the platform has any holes or weak spots because they are covered with a few inches of snow. After searching on both levels for away in and not finding anything we made a last ditch effort and tried a duct coming out of the wall about halfway between the ground level and first floor.

To get to it we needed to climb over a small wooden fence with some barbed wire shoddily wrapped around it. Then balance on a lip a few inches wide coming out of the side of the wall. This was covered in snow and ice to, of course. Despite out best efforts to be quite we made a massive racket climbing through the duct. Luckily the factory next door was making even more of a racket. Ended up being one of the most memorable entries I've made into a building.

There was a big former company headquarters in North Carolina that had a massive electrical fence around it. I couldn't figure out how to get around it, so I contacted UEMEZ. He drove out to meet me at the location.

He removed a manhole cover and we crawled down in. There was a tunnel just as wide as I am about 15 feet long. I HATE TUNNELS, but went in anyway because 1) this is no time to puss out and 2) I was probably pumped with adrenaline. We squeezed through the tunnel and quickly toured the whole building.

On the way out though I got stuck midway through the tunnel. I had the first and only goddamn panic attack I've ever had in my life. After a few minutes of that I managed to talk myself into squeezing out.

I'll never do that again, but I owe UEMEZ for giving me a good story to tell.

Went down a snow filled flight of stairs to a kicked down door to the basement. Then had to go down the hallway and climb over an old dryer (or some sort of industrial appliance). Not super crazy, but still a bit of a pain.

Crossed a six-foot concrete trench filled with disgusting water by walking along a thin metal pipe barely suspended above the surface, and then jumping to a small, unstable piece of rubble, all to climb in a broken window. Not as hardcore as some, but still memorable.

Just remembered another one.

I went to a very cool chemical plant a few years ago. The place was surrounded by a neighborhood in a forest-y area, also next to a school. The entrance itself was very simple, but also very open. Once we walked to the last house on the block, you headed a right a bit before stopping at a gate that said 'NO trespassing. The gate was wide open, so we walked through it. Unfortunately there was a half-mile road we had to walk on before we even got to the actual facility, which was ballsy solely because we had seen a truck enter through earlier (we later ran into the guy, but he didn't see us!), so anyone could drive through at anytime.

Turned out to be well worth it because I think that was probably the single-longest explore I've done to date.

Posted by kenfagerdotcom There was a big former company headquarters in North Carolina that had a massive electrical fence around it.

I had to deal with security riding around while I was inside this place...

Here are a couple that are no-longer doable, so I don't feel bad about revealing / hinting at them

-Over a fence, into a grain silo, up a long stairway, across a skyway, into a tower, down another stairway, past the homemade tripwire alarm set up by guards, through the main building, watch teenagers getting busted by cops in the parking lot, down another stairway, into the boiler room, down a tunnel, through a manhole, into a cave, through another tunnel, into the sewer.

-In a manhole, under a truck scale, through a hatch into a sump, up into an office, through a window into a garage, across several parked trucks, up a pile of tires into another window, up a broken-down manlift (beltovator), out a door onto a low roof, up an exterior ladder, into another window several floors up, up an internal stairway, across a conveyor bridge, up another stairway, and finally onto the roof.

Posted by Freak Here are a couple that are no-longer doable, so I don't feel bad about revealing / hinting at them -Over a fence, into a grain silo, up a long stairway, across a skyway, into a tower, down another stairway, past the homemade tripwire alarm set up by guards, through the main building, watch teenagers getting busted by cops in the parking lot, down another stairway, into the boiler room, down a tunnel, through a manhole, into a cave, through another tunnel, into the sewer. -In a manhole, under a truck scale, through a hatch into a sump, up into an office, through a window into a garage, across several parked trucks, up a pile of tires into another window, up a broken-down manlift (beltovator), out a door onto a low roof, up an exterior ladder, into another window several floors up, up an internal stairway, across a conveyor bridge, up another stairway, and finally onto the roof.

That must have taken some planning to figure out. How'd you know you would end up where you wanted?

There was an old boy's school in Delaware that was later bought by the DuPont's, who added a house onto the school. It had been abandoned for years and some kids had gotten into it and burnt the staircase in the house. The stairs in the house were the only way to reach the second floor of the house, even though the first floor connected to the school. Curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to know what was on the second floor, so I hugged the wall and lightly made my way up the charred remains of the stairs - which was about a foot or less of very unstable space. When I made it up the stairs, I noticed two rooms were also cut off because the fire had burnt the floor and only left charred support beams. I laid an old discarded door on top of those and ran across. In the end, it was totally worth it. The upstairs was untouched because no one else could make it up there.

In the same location, the third floor of the school portion was very unstable as well. The floor had been soaked through countless times with rain, making the wood bent and warped. There was an old ladder sitting in the middle of one of the rooms that led to this little, odd room attached to the side of the building. I climbed the ladder on the rickety, uneven floor. Also totally worth it. Especially because the entire location - school and house - were demo'ed in August last year.

Although I was mugged a week or two after and I'm pretty sure I hadn't had time to transfer the pictures and now they're gone forever. Unless I lazily put them in some weird place in my computer, but that's unlikely.

Posted by ahhidkk There was an old boy's school in Delaware that was later bought by the DuPont's, who added a house onto the school. It had been abandoned for years and some kids had gotten into it and burnt the staircase in the house. The stairs in the house were the only way to reach the second floor of the house, even though the first floor connected to the school. Curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to know what was on the second floor, so I hugged the wall and lightly made my way up the charred remains of the stairs - which was about a foot or less of very unstable space. When I made it up the stairs, I noticed two rooms were also cut off because the fire had burnt the floor and only left charred support beams. I laid an old discarded door on top of those and ran across. In the end, it was totally worth it. The upstairs was untouched because no one else could make it up there. In the same location, the third floor of the school portion was very unstable as well. The floor had been soaked through countless times with rain, making the wood bent and warped. There was an old ladder sitting in the middle of one of the rooms that led to this little, odd room attached to the side of the building. I climbed the ladder on the rickety, uneven floor. Also totally worth it. Especially because the entire location - school and house - were demo'ed in August last year. Although I was mugged a week or two after and I'm pretty sure I hadn't had time to transfer the pictures and now they're gone forever. Unless I lazily put them in some weird place in my computer, but that's unlikely.

Ummm feet covered running verses drop rate per second if you don't slip... that's cutting it Looney Tunes close

You were mugged? That's very sketchy indeed.
Sorry to hear that

Used lineman gaffs & belt to scale a utility pole and swung onto the lower roof, stashed the gaffs, climbed up several stories of fire escape while completely visible to half of downtown, onto the main roof, into the elevator machine room, back out of elevator room because fuck that, and in through a door. The sketchy part was that this building was surrounded by bars and there were at least two cop cars continuously patrolling the block while I was visible on the fire escape of by far the tallest building in that area. Perhaps 2am on a Saturday wasn't smart timing. Good thing people never look up. I left the same way I came in, no cops this time, but while descending the pole I gaffed out and slid halfway down before my safety belt caught. Considering that the only bad thing that happened that night was my backup headlamp fell about fifteen feet to the ground and broke, I felt pretty lucky!

The sketchiest path I took to get into a place was a prison. I had to walk along a stone walla and climb it up to the side of the prison. Once I got up there was a small hole in the wall. Now I know this doesn't sound sketchy but this was the only way in and out of this place. And next to the hole was a large suitcase. Obviously the person couldn't get it inside. But were they inside? That was the sketchy part. Crawling into a small hole hoping someone isn't waiting on the other side.

At night using no lights up a steepish hill at the bottom was a rocky riverbed at top an abandoned hotel.

I was exploring this steam tower that has been abandoned since maybe the 1920s. The whole system of scaffolding that was in use when the tower was producing steam heat was very sketchy, lots of rust and many of the walkways had flat out collapsed with no weight on them. My dumb brain tells me it will be okay to shimmy between two railings over a 100 foot drop. Genius.


I know it wasn't exactly the question because this was when I was already inside, but it was the sketchiest path I took to get upstairs

Theres a spot here that the roof collapsed and the owner threw his scrap metal into
I was not aware of this till i had my foot inside the broken window
I looked down and it had old animal traps, razor wire, fallen bricks, shattered glass and lord knows what other rusty metal everywhere, the two old rafters still standing had become bird homes and the ground became a toilet for them.
That with the thorn bush growing up the wall, I was glad I was up to date on my tetanus shot.
The down side of it all being that I was stuck with broken glass pointed at my manhood with a pit of disease on one side, a confused looking truck driving watching me from the other side, and the realization that the roof collapse had made the interior of the building into one large open room instead of anything even worth entering for.