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 Rascal Rooster
Wish you were here
 |  | University of Utah steam tunnels
< on 11/16/2006 11:14 PM >
|  | | | For the past couple of months I've been working on a google earth .kmz file of every single cool UE/ghost town/hiking/rockhounding/nice view/weird place I've ever heard of. I asked the people in an IRC channel I frequent about possible locations to add to my "rough draft" and someone told me I should add the U steam tunnels.
I'd never been in them myself, so he organized a small trip with me and some of our friends to go check them out.
He couldn't quite remember where he used to get in (damn pot) so we ended up wandering around the campus with crowbars for a bit late night until we found a spot familiar enough to jog his memory and he took us to the entrance.
This is what a section of U steam tunnel looks like. Imagine that it's humid and hot as hell.
A lot of the tunnels would connect to the basement of some of the campus buildings.
They were keeping lab samples in here I guess.
A godamn human head!
There was danger all over the place.
You know what, I'm sick of posting links. All the rest of the photos are in that gallery.
Long story short, we wandered around a few tunnels until one opened up into a large, fairly well-lit and ventilated area that turned out to be the basement of a building, which was occupied even at 3 AM. My friends are assholes so they were far ahead of me when this happened, but I hear some guy chased them away. We got out of the tunnels and booked it. The end.
[last edit 11/16/2006 11:17 PM by Rascal Rooster - edited 1 times]
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hovburglar
Location: Salt Lake City/Sugarhouse
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 1 on 11/17/2006 2:30 AM >
| | | | SOunds like an interesting adventure......where'd one access those tunnels if they wanted to go take a look see for themselves?
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Collector
Location: SLC, Utah
| | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 2 on 11/17/2006 5:24 AM >
| | | | Fantastic! I have always wondered about the steam tunnels at the U, but I never heard of anyone getting inside. Thanks for the pics.
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Rascal Rooster
Wish you were here
| | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 3 on 11/17/2006 6:22 AM >
| | | | Posted by hovburglar
SOunds like an interesting adventure......where'd one access those tunnels if they wanted to go take a look see for themselves?
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I couldn't tell you for sure, I'm not very familiar with the area. We popped a manhole behind some bushes near a building on that circle where the natural history museum is.
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kjohnnytarr
  
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos: CoMO
| |  | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 4 on 11/17/2006 6:26 AM >
| | | | I'm a lover of my University's tunnels, and I must say, yours are quite a bit different from ours. (If you care to see what I mean, I made a DB entry of the ones here)
It seemed like a good idea at the time... |
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hovburglar
Location: Salt Lake City/Sugarhouse
Gender: Male
| | | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 5 on 11/17/2006 8:32 AM >
| | | | Posted by Rascal Rooster
I couldn't tell you for sure, I'm not very familiar with the area. We popped a manhole behind some bushes near a building on that circle where the natural history museum is.
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Well crap. Scheist! I'd love to go and take a look meself....any info is appriciated...
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brandnewteeth
   
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Gender: Male
Carry the torch that's never lit.
| | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 6 on 11/17/2006 1:29 PM >
| | | | Goddamn, I need to get around to scouting some steam tunnels. That looks like a ball.
mutantMandias: You're everywhere. You're the wind. You're the air. You're the bnt. brandnewteeth is like the Cyrus of Marietta gangs. CAN YOU DIG IT?
dsankt: BNT rocks shiny penny loafers. I heard he explores in them cos it puts a spring in his step for the laddies.
Contagion: I still think BrandNewTeeth is a prick, no matter what. Bitch ate all of my thanksgiving leftovers! |
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Volitant
Location: Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
Half Member
| |  | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 7 on 11/17/2006 2:37 PM >
|  | | | That actually sounds like a nice alternate to walking around in an empty building when its -10 degrees this winter. mmm, nice and warm, lol.
I'll have to try that myself when things start cooling down.
"The human mind is like a parachute. It only functions when it's open." |
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Volitant
Location: Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
Half Member
| | | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 9 on 11/22/2006 2:19 AM >
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That's rad. I'm guessing that computer was used for propping a door open? lol
"The human mind is like a parachute. It only functions when it's open." |
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Forbo
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Gender: Male
Urban Terrorist.
| | | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 10 on 11/22/2006 3:13 AM >
| | | | It was behind a closed door down a long dark hallway, beyond the crappy Internet fad graffiti. It's a pretty sweet place to check out, I want to go again when I get my digicam back in commission.
"You walk in and the place smells of rancid death. It's straight up Silent Hill sh*t." |
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kemmer
Location: Sandy UT
Gender: Male
| | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 11 on 1/1/2007 11:41 PM >
| | | | My first serious UE excursions where the steam tunnels that connected all the buildings in the old part of the University of Northern Colorado. I would love to hit some of the tunnels at the U of U if anyone is up for it.
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hovburglar
Location: Salt Lake City/Sugarhouse
Gender: Male
| | | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 12 on 1/2/2007 12:36 AM >
| | | | Let me knows aboot any trips to the U steam tunnels. I an DEFINITELY interested in 'em
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dewey379
Location: North NJ & Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
| | | | Re: University of Utah steam tunnels
<Reply # 13 on 1/2/2007 12:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by Volitant
That actually sounds like a nice alternate to walking around in an empty building when its -10 degrees this winter. mmm, nice and warm, lol.
I'll have to try that myself when things start cooling down.
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I don't know anything about the U of U steam tunnels but I would of thought that they would be dangerous in the winter. The ones at my school would have certain areas which would reach temperatures of over 150. One cool thing though is you could tell where a lot of the tunnels were since the sidewalks they were under would never accumulate any snow.
We must always fear the wicked.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most,
and that is the indifference of good men. |
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