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 Noah Vale
    
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
 |  |  |  | 1st ever drain action.
< on 8/30/2003 6:08 AM >
|  | | | Just did my first drain today. Here it is... http://texploration.org/LSDrainpicspage.htm
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 1 on 8/30/2003 6:21 AM >
| | | | Wow. that's one of the cleanest, driest drains I've seen (up until the part about the mud)
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 2 on 8/30/2003 5:37 PM >
| | | | Yeah. It was very clean. No Trash or anything like that. I think it is new and has not been broken in yet. There woulda been no water if it hadn't rained the night before.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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kowalski
| | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 3 on 8/30/2003 10:11 PM >
| | | | Pretty cool. Congrats on your first drain. Definitely get some good boots, they make draining far ... cleaner : )
I'm curious, what did it outfall into and what was the outfall like structurally?
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 4 on 8/30/2003 10:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by kowalski
I'm curious, what did it outfall into and what was the outfall like structurally?
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I'm sorry, but you're going to have to define "outfall."
edit: BTW, Kowalski: I just saw your homepage icon and checked it out. That pic is amazing! Is that modified?
[last edit 8/30/2003 5:29 PM by Noah Vale - edited 1 times]
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Macsbug
Noble Donor
Location: St. Paul, MN
Gender: Male
Safety First!
| | | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 5 on 8/30/2003 11:25 PM >
| | | | By outfall I'd assume he meant the location where the water exits at the end of the drain.
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." |
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kowalski
| | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 6 on 8/31/2003 12:30 AM >
| | | | | I'm sorry, but you're going to have to define "outfall." |
Where you entered the drain. I assumed it was an outfall because it seemed well-lit and the water would obviously flow out of that pipe when it was actually running. It looked like a bit of a strange shape to me in that first photo, and that's why I was asking. But maybe you came in through something else?
| edit: BTW, Kowalski: I just saw your homepage icon and checked it out. That pic is amazing! Is that modified? |
Glad you liked it : )
Apart from having its levels tweaked and its corners cut off, that photo is unmodified. That's from a quite impressive drain in Hamilton, Ontario that I've called the Stairway to Paradise. If you go back a few pages in the Ontario forum, you should be able to find a thread about it, though that photo won't be there, as it was taken on a subsequent expedition.
Hopefully my actual, much-delayed website should be up within a couple of weeks. There'll be full writeups about 24 Ontario drains, along with several other interesting locations and the usual grab-bag of related information.
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 7 on 8/31/2003 1:03 AM >
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Okay, thanks for the definition...Yeah it was a little wierd. This drain was right by a hospital and all the other drains around the hospital have the same appearance to their outfall. In the pic you can see a wall that starts about 2 feet off the ground reccessed in about 5 feet. I had to crawl under that to get to the drain proper. The V shape in the fore trickled water toward me (I am standing ankle deep in mud as I took the pic) I think this is a new drain 'cause I see constrction workers doing stuff during the day, plus the wheelbarrow, shovels and pushbrooms I found in the tunnel. The water just trickled down the hill, not really sure where it ends up, though I think there is a park down there with a pond. I'll be going back soon to see where it ends up.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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kowalski
| | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 8 on 8/31/2003 1:20 AM >
| | | | Ah okay. Speedboy's seen one or two structures like this one in Hamilton. The raised wall seems to act as both a splash guard, to force down any sort of torrent of water emerging from the drain, and to hide the actual hole from public view. The latter purpose can be chalked up to a thinking that says "the public thinks pipes are ugly," "if kids can't see the hole they'll be less likely to investigate," and "a big metal grating is uglier than this smooth concrete wall."
The small wall with the v-shaped spout gives the outfall a minor retention capacity during heavy waterflow, and regulates the amount of water escaping downstream in order to prevent erosion and flooding.
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: 1st ever drain action.
<Reply # 9 on 9/2/2003 6:16 AM >
| | | | I went back today and finished the rest of the drain...Well, not ALL of it but I got to the end. Did a "digestive" as it's called. I'll post a link to the rest of the pics when I get around to putting them on the site.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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