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UER Forum > Rookie Forum > What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn (Viewed 7691 times)
jeepdave 


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It's also a gun.

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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
< Reply # 20 on 2/3/2018 2:06 PM >
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Probably walking through a door in a subway vent and letting it close behind me, forcing me to call a friend to let me out.

That, or taking along a Vice writer to a historic abandonment that was previously off the map.


That article was the shittiest thing I've read in a while. I regret giving him the click. Cool location tho.




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China, IL is the best at math

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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
< Reply # 21 on 2/5/2018 7:04 PM >
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Also fuck bees. Just fuck em.


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Seriously though bees are the worst thing I have ever encountered while exploring. I once was visiting a clearing in the forest I used to hangout at after school (we called it the fort for some reason). I started hitting an old stump with a stick to break it down. Turns out it was a beehive. We never saw a single bee when we would hangout down there so it took me by surprise. Ran out screaming. I have never been stung and its a life long battle or challenge or something to never get stung. I only just avoided the bees by throwing off my zip-up hoodie.



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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
< Reply # 22 on 2/5/2018 7:33 PM >
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Not listening to my gut instinct when it came to a certain rural farmhouse in Belgium.

I always, always listen to my gut now.




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Best to not look back and see what follows

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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
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Speaking of bees I was doing some free climbing on a ridge yesterday and almost stuck my hand into a bee hive in the rock face. Yeah not fun being that high up with pissed off bees




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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
< Reply # 24 on 6/24/2018 10:31 AM >
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While exploring an abandoned elementary school, while checking out a couple outbuildings on the property, I spent 5 minutes accessing an open crawlspace type window (open, but surrounded by prickly bushes, small trees, and ivy...not poison tho) because even though I'd confirmed 3 sides inaccessible, I was too lazy to check the opposite side, partly because I'd thought I saw no POE there. No gloves, 93° out, and I'm tangled up in all kinds of spiny, bushy crap to crawl into this small opening, cause I do what I gotta do to get the shot. Once inside, I see two doors opposite me, and as I reach for the knob I'm deluding myself into thinking I'd seen earlier that the doors had been sealed. Well, one was. When I left, I noticed a very concerned Pooh Bear decal on the outside of the door. Lesson?
-gloves...get and carry gloves.
-FULLY investigate and confirm any/all exit points.
-having a funny story to look back on is great, but don't let laziness or inattention cloud a better judgement that might save time, extra pain in the ass work, or (even though it ended ok for me) your life.
-itchy, prickly plants...not a great addition to already being sweaty and kinda overheated.




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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
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I hung out with 2 friends on a Wednesday night. It was between 10PM and 11PM. There was a manhole cover in the middle of sidewalk at the bottom of a walking bridge going over a freeway. There was a bar across the street and apparently it was open. We popped the manhole cover when we were sure that nobody was around to see us go into it. One friend went down first then me right after. When we got down to the bottom of the shaft we heard talking above then my other friend who was still up there close the cover while we were still down there. My one friend and I hid down in the tunnel for about 10 minutes then the my friend climbed up the ladder just under the closed cover to check his to see if the other friend was doing ok. My other friend texted him to tell us "THE COPS HAVE BEEN, COME OUT". We got out of the drain and when we did get out there was a car across the street with 4 people in it and they were yelling at us, so we walked quickly back to my van. Just the 2 of us (at that time my other friend was not around) started walking to my van and while we walked towards my van 2 cars pulled up by my van and some of them got out of their cars and talking crap but I don't know what all they said but I don't think any weapons were used. We got in my van and drove off to find my other friend for which he walked across the bridge to the other side, so we picked him up and went to another drain. My friend we just picked up said that one of the guys called the cops on us but we later learned that they might of been lying because they were clearly drunk and they came out of the bar across the street. We really didn't think what we did was a big deal but these people made it into one. If they did call the cops they would of screwed themselves because they were drinking and driving. In the city this happened, I don't think exploring storm drains are a big deal like it was in Anoka County. I did learn not to go into that manhole cover when that bar is open. It could of been a lot worse but it wasn't and nobody got hurt.




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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
< Reply # 26 on 7/10/2023 6:59 PM >
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Exploring abandoned basements without company. One faulty support beam and you're stuck underground without reception.
I don't explore places with poor structural integrity alone now. Otherwise it's a death sentence if fate plays your cards poorly.




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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
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Speaking of basements, I haven't committed this one myself, but once a guy I was exploring with decided he'd check out the basement. He walked down about four stairs, and then splashed into water. The basement had been flooded, and the water was so still that it was invisible until he splashed into it. He almost pulled me in with him.

Here's an example of this at a different location. The water was completely invisible until I used my flash. I might not have detected it in time, but I think I saw papers floating on the surface.


More recently I encountered a flooded basement in a very different condition.

Looks like the basement left over when the building over top was destroyed. I threw a rock down, and discovered that all that concrete-looking debris was floating the surface. Not sure how deep it was. Glad to have not found out.




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Re: What was your biggest mistake while exploring and what did you learn
< Reply # 28 on 7/31/2023 11:09 AM >
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Water-logged areas in general are a mess. Due to refraction, the water may not seem that deep, but when you step inside, you just sink up to your crotch.

I was in a similar situation back when I was exploring an abandoned farm in March. This death trap was not human-made, mind you, but in marshes there are places that look like solid ground, and one step off course could plunge you into murky, thick waters. Thankfully, I've never been caught in bootleg quicksand, but the shit is pretty spooky either way.




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