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UER Forum > UE Photography > Join Santa's secret underground army (Viewed 1624 times)
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Join Santa's secret underground army
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That's the message I put out to try to get people to join me in this year's ritualistic annual Christmas tunnel walk.

1. I showed up early to discover that workers were putting in hot water pipes along the river, right in front of our entry point. So it was decided to start from upstream and work our way down here, because what are the workers going to do if they see us coming out: turn us back?


2. We met at a big anonymous train station.


3. When we got to the upper entrance, someone had set up a Christmas tree! Well, a tripod with bottles of liquor underneath.


4. We entered what we call the Bone Tunnel, only to find workers had installed lights and seemed to be dredging the streambed.


5. This is as far as I got before the water got too deep for my rubber boots.


6. Then we ran into Santa Claus himself.


7. He was down here to do some killing.


8. Got a problem with that?


9. A sixth member of our group was arriving late so I had to go aboveground to get her.


10. Next we started the 1.5-kilometer walk downstream to the river.


11. Stopping for fireworks of course.


12. Santa dueled with another member of our group.


13. Roman candles are fun, but the ones you just set up on the ground and watch sparks come out of aren't.


14. Unless you throw them.


15. Gotta have good timing though.


After that, my camera battery died. We emerged at the river around 5:30 to find the workers still there. They didn't notice us and we had to climb over steaming hot pipes to escape.




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Roman candle fire fights?
Very dangerous... I'm in.




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^^
you'll shoot your eye out.




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^^
you'll shoot your eye out.


But fireworks in confined spaces are a classic staple of urban exploration meetups!




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"4. We entered what we call the Bone Tunnel, only to find workers had installed lights and seemed to be dredging the streambed."

Nope. Pumping water into. Red hose is known as "6 inch lay-flat discharge hose"...




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There is an easy way to get that shot so nobody was ever at risk of getting hit by any fireworks. The only dangerous thing done was my friend who threw the other type of firework.

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"4. We entered what we call the Bone Tunnel, only to find workers had installed lights and seemed to be dredging the streambed."

Nope. Pumping water into. Red hose is known as "6 inch lay-flat discharge hose"...


Can you explain? What does this do? The only reason I can see to pump water in would be to rinse out the tunnel.

The floor of the tunnel has been cleaned of muck. They even swept out all the bones that gave the tunnel its name. There's still no shortage of water flowing in from upstream, which has become a major contentious environmental issue lately because of a US military base closing down. So I don't see any need for them to pump water into the tunnel, unless they want to pump in clean water to hose down everything else.




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Looks like fun.




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That's hilarious ... best way to spend Christmas!!!!!




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Man I miss Seoul. I probably would get lost now, however. I told my daughter when we visited in 2012 that it looked like somebody had thrown skyscraper seeds all around.

Looks like a fun time.




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Very nice set!

Is that a Manfrotto tripod somebody converted into a Christmas tree?




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I'd love to go back here. I need to dig through my camera and find my shots of this place. Definitely would be cool to see it with the lights on.

Has anyone ventured all the way down that thing with waders?



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"Can you explain? What does this do? The only reason I can see to pump water in would be to rinse out the tunnel."

Looks like they needed to pump some water from somewhere. Did you ever follow the hose back to where it starts? Might be a pump there.

Interestingly, noticed a few thing.

1 A connector on the hose has been cut off. Most likely the "male".

2 Hose is wrapped around the column. Even without the connector the hose is very heavy. Either someone moved the hose or a really major flood took place.

3 If I was there I would walk the route the hose went before it was moved and see what's there. A drain I bet or a way to drain water...




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"Can you explain? What does this do? The only reason I can see to pump water in would be to rinse out the tunnel."

Looks like they needed to pump some water from somewhere. Did you ever follow the hose back to where it starts? Might be a pump there.

Interestingly, noticed a few thing.

1 A connector on the hose has been cut off. Most likely the "male".

2 Hose is wrapped around the column. Even without the connector the hose is very heavy. Either someone moved the hose or a really major flood took place.

3 If I was there I would walk the route the hose went before it was moved and see what's there. A drain I bet or a way to drain water...


I think the hose is there to pump out water. The floor surface is relatively flat, so tepid water has collected in spots for decades. If they wanted to bring in flowing water the hoses would be coming from upstream because there still are at least two chutes bringing in flowing water, although it is heavily polluted.




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I'd love to go back here. I need to dig through my camera and find my shots of this place. Definitely would be cool to see it with the lights on.

Has anyone ventured all the way down that thing with waders?


There have been three trips deeper into the tunnel. The deepest, they went almost all the way to where I think the tunnel originates, and the dimensions got so small they popped a manhole and emerged.

I have also tracked down a few of the places where the tunnel originates upstream. This is the largest so far.


We also know one of the channels emerges upstream on USAG Yongsan.




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"I think the hose is there to pump out water."

Because the hose is flat it will stay flat if used for suction. You would use a 3 or 4 inch suction hose. usually green sometimes black and very rigid...




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