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 DrDark
 
Location: Central NJ ... Armpit of the nation
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1320 on 7/7/2009 4:16 PM >
|  | | | Hi friends.
I'm from Cranbury in central NJ and have been wandering around abandoned America for most of my life. My interests are draining (it's what got me started long ago) and abandoned military or industrial sites. I'm always ready to visit new places.
... No Sign NO CRIME ...
No Sign No Crime |
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Auggeo
 
Location: Portugal
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1321 on 7/7/2009 4:23 PM >
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Im from Portugal (Madeira Island) and my name is Augusto. Im 27 years old and ive been an explorer since my youth (but only recently ive decided to show the world my private collection of photos and items that ive collected in the past 10 years.
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jacunda
Location: Toledo area
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1322 on 7/8/2009 4:14 PM >
| | | | Hi, new to the forum. Living in Akron, OH and Toledo, OH depending on what day of the week it is. Looking forward to meeting some like minded people and exploring the area.
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snap228
Location: New Paltz, NY
Gender: Female
"A man who holds the cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way."
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<Reply # 1323 on 7/9/2009 2:59 PM >
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I live in NY, about an hour and a half outside the city (Poughkeepsie area). I just recently got into exploring. I've always been interested in history and photography, and my affinity to push the boundaries make this a perfect hobby for me. I started UEing about two months ago, and I've loved it ever since. I'm hoping to maybe meet some people that I could go UEing with. Otherwise I'll probably just be lurking, looking for useful bits of information that will help me hone our craft. 
[last edit 8/27/2009 3:32 AM by Darkwolf - edited 1 times]
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TheTolllingBell
Location: Herndon, VA
Gender: Male
Take a look to the sky, just before you die... It's the last time you will!
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<Reply # 1324 on 7/11/2009 8:34 PM >
| | | | Hey Guys, I'm Dom from Herndon, VA. dont get many opportunities to UE where i live (the endless suburbs) but have done a bit here and there at my grandparents' house in PA. I really want to be able to do more and am glad to be getting into a community of fellow UErs
Whaddya mean i hurt your feelings? I didnt know you had any feelings!-Dave Mustaine
Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that...smells like victory. - Col. Kilgore |
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Jorinda
Location: Washington D.C
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 1325 on 7/11/2009 10:34 PM >
|  | | | I'm new to the forum but not new to UE. I've been doing various UE activities for a few years now, mainly in abandonments. I've always been prone to trespassing (who can resist?) but I'd like to become more involved in exploring closed/abandoned facilities. I'm kind of a history nerd, and what I like most about UE is getting a peek into old buildings and what people leave behind. I also find a lot the structures to be beautiful, though I'm not a photographer.
I recently went to the Dejarnette Center, and I'm living in Washington D.C for the summer.
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ravenfeather
Location: Somewhere in the Sandhills, North Carolina
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 1326 on 7/13/2009 10:19 PM >
| | | | Hello everyone! I'm just a sixteen year old teenager, living in the middle of nowhere, with a keen interest in photography and history of abandoned places. While I have no experience in UE since the only places I've actually been in were old farm houses, I have always wanting to photograph abandoned asylums and bunkers. Once I have a car and graduate from high school, however, I will most likely begin my journey of visiting places.
Being a lurker on this site on and off for the past three years, I've finally decided to register and become involved as much as I can. It's nice to find a place where I can discuss my interests and talk with fellow explorers without getting strange looks from friends and family members!
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undergroundIII
Location: Oakville/Mississauga
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1327 on 7/14/2009 2:49 AM >
| | | | Hi peeps,
I signed up to this site a long time a go, but I've started taking more of an interest in UE and just exploring the vast and interesting crevices of our world. I'm from the Oakville area, which is situated in Ontario, Canada. I'm not completely new to the whole exploration/infiltration scene, I've done a fair bit of it myself - with modesty of course. I'm also a practitioner of parkour/freerunning so finding unique architecture always interests me. Besides that, I'de like to meet some people from the oakville area if it is at all possible.
e-mail: (removed as a courtesy -- PM is a better option)
since this is my first post, an image has been arranged for this momentous occasion:
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Mr. "D"
   
Location: East Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1328 on 7/14/2009 5:47 AM >
| | | | Well hello to my fellow urban explorers! I registered on this site awhile back, but just as most of you i see myself liking it more and more each day. I can't wait to explore and i am very excited to meet new and exciting places...aswell as new and exciting people.
"Big Daddy D"
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"If you don't believe your country should come before yourself. Ya can better serve your country, by living somewhere else" - Stompin' Tom Connors
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makman
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
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<Reply # 1329 on 7/15/2009 9:00 PM >
| | | | Already introduced myself in the mammoth Rochester thread, but I suppose I should do it here too.
I'm an nascent urban explorer- I've done a couple things around my campus (Rochester Institute of Technology), some rural ruin stuff, and a couple serious urban trips. I grew up in the country where there's nothing but abandoned barns (not terribly exciting after the first couple). I've only recently discovered that there's a community around recreational trespassing, but I'm kinda glad it's not quite as lonely a sport as it seems. It's quite cool that there's a place like this where I can hear other people's stories and benefit from their experience.
For those who know Rochester, my trips of note include the Terrance Building and BeeBee Station.
I'm not a photographer, but pictures seem to be the currency here at uer, so I think I'll start taking a camera.
Be careful, not safe.
"Urbex- so much fun that it should be illegal." |
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
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<Reply # 1330 on 7/15/2009 9:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by macman5151
I'm not a photographer, but pictures seem to be the currency here at uer, so I think I'll start taking a camera.
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Haha....they learn so quickly!
Yah, there's a big pics or it didn't happen attitude or it didn't happen.
Welcome!
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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evan-e-cent
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1331 on 7/16/2009 2:50 AM >
| | | | I have been a member for a while. I am particularly interested in photography. I am DJ Craig's Dad. He is a full member and has taken us to his favorite local site. As a family we created a posting called Old King Coal that I think is worth looking at:
http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=65923
I took the photos, often using LED lights as the light source, and very long exposures using a tripod. The text was written by my wife and captures her thoughts about the life of the people who worked in this old coal fired power plant.
With the stimulus package many of these old historical sites are likely to be demolished and I see it as our job to record the history before it disappears. Many people see these structures as eyesores and sources of pollution but if they are going to be demolished we should do some basic archaeology in the form of photographic documentation.
We have done a lot of work on recording the history of the gold rush in our home country of New Zealand and have compiled a database of 32,000 gold miners who recorded claims. We have located the first gold mine where gold was found in Thames and confirmed it using photography and historical descriptions, recorded its GPS coordinates and had it recorded in an official archaeological database. I should submit a posting about that.
We he have also spent a lot of time compiling Irish history, particularly the area around Cork since about 1600. This has taken us exploring old abandoned buildings, churches and castles that are generally unknown places. I posted some photos of a castle taken with a fisheye lens:
http://www.uer.ca/...=search&currpage=4
I have been doing SLR photography around the world since 1977 when I bought my first SLR, a Pentax ME. Travelled in 50 countries including 14 months driving a VW combie through Africa and 7 months around Europe.
Since Craig was using my Nikon D100 I just had to buy another one and got a full format FX Nikon D700 with 24-120 zoom and a fish eye lens. I'll find somewhere else to rave about that!
I hope lots of you will come to the Mid-Atlantic Meet Up (MAMU-2). We have floor space and plenty of room for tents for anyone who wants to stay.
I am a doctor but fortunately I am off work that week.
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
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<Reply # 1332 on 7/16/2009 4:04 AM >
| | | | Welcome!
Posted by evan-e-cent
Since Craig was using my Nikon D100 I just had to buy another one and got a full format FX Nikon D700 with 24-120 zoom and a fish eye lens. I'll find somewhere else to rave about that!
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Would you like to be my dad too?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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evan-e-cent
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1333 on 7/16/2009 6:14 PM >
| | | | That would be a bit difficult to arrange at this stage. You should have asked sooner, like before you were born!
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kierphelan
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1334 on 7/18/2009 5:09 AM >
| | | | Hey Everybody,
I'm KierPhelan and like many here I was doing this long before there were names for it. We called it exploring, dungeon delving, warehouse diving, urban spelunking, etc. and social engineering was just something you did to get where you needed to go.
I've been doing this since the late 80's and even now can't resist a good adventure. I've gone UE all through the States and even into Hong Kong the last few years. I currently live 3/4 of my year in Milwaukee, WI and the rest in Hong Kong.
I couldn't even begin to count the number of warehouses, refineries, factories, farmhouses, churches, schools, slaughterhouses, etc. that I've been through. My girl luckily understands my crazy and supports my adventures, mostly cause she knows I'll do it anyway
I think I could share a couple of my favorite stories:
There was the first time I talked my way out of a police stop with a business card and a camera.
The time I had to negotiate an ice filled warehouse basement in the middle of summer.
The fact that an old warehouse that we used to spend lots of time exploring now houses not only the shop that fixes my motorcycle, but also a gallery that I've exhibited at.
Nearly getting shot at one warehouse that was a bit more occupied on a given day than usual, had to leap into a dumpster from the roof that time.
Ending up in Myrtle Beach in between hurricanes and getting to explore the amusement parks and empty streets all night long as the wind never stopped roaring. Truly a memorable night.
Finding an abandoned and hidden YMCA camp overlooking the South China Sea.
There are so many more, but those are for later posts
I need to scan a lot of my old pics, and organize my new ones. I hope to get those posted with stories soon.
Pleased to meet you all. If anyone has good spots in Hong Kong to check out, I'll be back there in September.
KierPhelan
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Man Underground
Location: Oz
Gender: Male
freedom of choice ~ choose well
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<Reply # 1335 on 7/19/2009 9:45 AM >
| | | | Hi all. I'm 'Man Underground' coming to you from Melbourne Australia. A couple of weeks back I went into my first drain "exploration" with another member here known as octopus7.
Octopus7 has a thread that I took advantage off and uploaded a couple of pic's seen here --> www.uer.ca/forum_s...urrpage=1&pp#post6
I like this forum, good to be here.
Cheers
I know not what I do, but when I do it |
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metawaffle
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
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<Reply # 1336 on 7/19/2009 9:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by Man Underground
Hi all. I'm 'Man Underground' coming to you from Melbourne Australia. A couple of weeks back I went into my first drain "exploration" with another member here known as octopus7.
Octopus7 has a thread that I took advantage off and uploaded a couple of pic's seen here --> www.uer.ca/forum_s...urrpage=1&pp#post6
I like this forum, good to be here.
Cheers
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Always good to see more Australians around here! 
http://www.longexposure.net |
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Nodscene
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1337 on 7/19/2009 3:54 PM >
| | | | Hello, Glad I found a site like this. Always loved exploring whether it be a forest, caves, or abandoned buildings. I'm sure this place will help in finding more places to go.
Just went to the Toronto meetup yesterday. Being an old(er) guy I was a bit concerned but it was a good time and met some cool people. Will definitely be doing it again.
Cheers
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
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<Reply # 1338 on 7/19/2009 5:02 PM >
|  | | | Posted by Nodscene
Hello, Glad I found a site like this. Always loved exploring whether it be a forest, caves, or abandoned buildings. I'm sure this place will help in finding more places to go.
Just went to the Toronto meetup yesterday. Being an old(er) guy I was a bit concerned but it was a good time and met some cool people. Will definitely be doing it again.
Cheers
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37? Welcome aboard kid.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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CFVParanormal
Location: Clear Fork Valley, Ohio
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 1339 on 7/20/2009 4:06 AM >
| | | | Heyyy!
I'm new.
I'm eighteen, and the founder of an Ohio-based paranormal society.
Ghost Hunting is what got me into Urban Exploration.
And of course, the need to practice my photography every now and again
Browsing your site made me wanna join.
So I did!
Its good to be here.
Clear Fork Valley Paranormal Society |
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