forums
new posts
donate
UER Store
events
location db
db map
search
members
faq
terms of service
privacy policy
register
login




UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > my day draining in vienna, Va (Viewed 301 times)
Bry 


Location: Goose Creek, SC
Gender: Male


hehe, you looked

Send Private Message | Send Email
my day draining in vienna, Va
< on 11/11/2005 11:53 PM >
Posted on Forum: UER Forum
 
today i did my first "real" draining, where i actually planned it, and went out, and got in the drains. i started out this morning, trying drains near the house. i popped a manhole, where i thought i would find the biggest drains, and it ended up being a tiny room, w/ 2 tiny tunnels. so i moved up the hill a little bit, and the cover was too heavy for me to lift off, so i moved up to the one where i thought i would have had the least luck, and finally found something i could at least get into. it was a small room that a very small drain passed through, the room was about 6x6x8. but it was interesting.lots of little cave or camel crickets. i found some writing on the wall, that my grandfather thinks was written by a boy my mom had a crush on when she was little. After that, we followed the manholes some more, and came to the nearby school. Today being veterans day, we thought school wasnt in session, so we thought nothing of walking through the ground with a machete(for cutting through brush in the woods), a steel bar, flashlight, and gloves. school was in session... the lady who spotted us stopped us, and called the police. she then called on her radio, and put the school on lockdown. my grandfather and i had to talk ourselves out of getting arrested! it was an experience ill never forget.
after we got out of that whole mess, we decided to go to another drain i had spotted at one point.
it was pretty small, but i brought my skateboard, laid on it, and pushed through the tunnel. it was pretty awkward, but it worked, i could tell it wasnt going anywhere interesting, so i went to the largest drain opening i knew of in that area, and went in that way.
i kneeled down on my skateboard and pushed through the first section.

45863.jpg (37 kb, 507x415)
click to view


Then, it shrank a bit, and i left the skateboard, and just shuffled through it for a short bit. afterward, it opened up, and i could run crouched. it was an overall great experience. i even had fun with passing cars, as they would approach, i would shoot my hand out and grab a stick out from in front of them. then for the next car, i would just reach out and set the stick down.

next i went to a place where i thought a drain should be, and it was indeed there. so i climbed in and ran back! There were two openings, the first, on the left went back maybe 200-300 feet, and split into two smaller ones that i saw no end to, so i turned back. the second, went about 600-700 feet back and crossed under a road, and popped out near whole foods store.

45864.jpg (95 kb, 711x573)
click to view


lastly we visited an area that was once a slave plantation, that eventually became a black neighborhood, that is now all abandoned. it was very interesting, seeing the yard now, and looking at how nice and pretty it was in old pictures and slides in the house.

this is a fallen in storage area possibly. it had a flat roof that sat about 2 feet above the ground, then it had a walk out door, big enough to back a pick-up truck into.
45865.jpg (95 kb, 618x470)
click to view


so that was my day, thanks for reading!

peace,
~Bry~

The Decoy till 11-18-2006
HillbillyHorus 


Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male


Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz

Send Private Message | Send Email | AIM Message
Re: my day draining in vienna, Va
<Reply # 1 on 11/12/2005 1:39 AM >
Posted on Forum: UER Forum
 
Awesome. That second drain (the backbreaker) looks a lot like my first drain
Good luck, and happy draining!

You can't fall off a mountain.
Bry 


Location: Goose Creek, SC
Gender: Male


hehe, you looked

Send Private Message | Send Email
Re: my day draining in vienna, Va
<Reply # 2 on 11/12/2005 2:28 AM >
Posted on Forum: UER Forum
 
yea,
that second drain picture makes me look deformed...haha
funny thing, there was a small ledge in there, covered w/ raccoon feces. like they just cant do their thing in the 1" of water. i guess its pretty common, but it was new to me.

~bry

The Decoy till 11-18-2006
HillbillyHorus 


Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male


Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz

Send Private Message | Send Email | AIM Message
Re: my day draining in vienna, Va
<Reply # 3 on 11/12/2005 2:46 AM >
Posted on Forum: UER Forum
 
I actually see 'coon tracks all the time (even in rather deep or long drains). Thankfully I've never run into one (another reason not to go draining at night). Oh yeah, and as for the crickets, I see those all the time too, but only in smaller drains for some reason. At one part of my first drain, which we call "Cricket Run", there are crickets all over the ceiling that jump onto your head as you pass. Yuck!

You can't fall off a mountain.
res_novae 


Location: NoVA
Gender: Male




Send Private Message | Send Email | AIM Message
Re: my day draining in vienna, Va
<Reply # 4 on 11/12/2005 4:49 AM >
Posted on Forum: UER Forum
 
Its not dropping feces in the water because its marking the area with its scent. To do so in the water would be pointless.If there is a creek nearby or something its probably got a bunch of food there. [/nerdymoment]
[last edit 11/12/2005 6:44 PM by res_novae - edited 1 times]

UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > my day draining in vienna, Va (Viewed 301 times)



All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire.
To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT
View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield
This page was generated for you in 250 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 739846742 pages have been generated.