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 Fert Bert
Gender: Male
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< on 11/28/2008 8:41 PM >
|  | | | This summer I got into climbing up on to rooftops (which I guess is what lead me to this forum...). There are some really sweet ones in my neighborhood with great views of downtown. Buildings are just the urban form of mountains, right? There was one church on 13th ave E and Olive I used to get up on, but they took down the scaffolding so I can't get up there anymore. My favorite would have to be the rooftop of Lowel Elementary at 11th and Mercer on Capitol Hill. The view is great and it's cool to watch the planes line up for their landing down south at Sea-Tac. There are some gaps in the bricks by the garbage cans that are perfect for climbing, you'll figure out the rest. Anyone out there know of other good roof tops?
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RailGuy88
     
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Location: Where you're not...
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1 on 11/29/2008 10:06 AM >
| | | | I know of some active buildings... But you have to know me personally before I can divulge that info. The only hint I can give, are hotels...
Going where others can't... |
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galax
  
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
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<Reply # 2 on 12/3/2008 12:46 PM >
|  | | | hell yeah, ive allways loved being on roof's. even when i was a little guy i loved sneaking out on our roof, and climbing ladders and stuff, probably why i got into firefighting. haha
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." |
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jbtxk
Location: pnw
Gender: Male
there's always another way
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<Reply # 3 on 12/8/2008 10:13 AM >
| | | | i LOVE climbing onto rooftops. nobody ever gets as excited about it as i think they should. let's meet up and climb some shit.
attempt the absurd! |
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greenone
Location: Meadow Lakes, AK
Gender: Female
| |  | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 4 on 1/1/2009 8:31 PM >
| | | | Not to worry, accessible rooftops should be easy enough to find; of course the trick is not being seen on the way up. And of course pretending to be invisible after you've been spotted doesn't work as well as one might think... but have you ever noticed that once you're on top, no one seems to notice you? UE Lesson #187: No One Ever Looks Up.
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| |  |  | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 5 on 1/1/2009 8:54 PM >
| | | | Posted by greenone
Not to worry, accessible rooftops should be easy enough to find; of course the trick is not being seen on the way up. And of course pretending to be invisible after you've been spotted doesn't work as well as one might think... but have you ever noticed that once you're on top, no one seems to notice you? UE Lesson #187: No One Ever Looks Up.
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Edit: Unless the rest of the UE group, on the ground, chickened out and is now gawking up at you.
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Calhovin
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
| | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 6 on 1/1/2009 10:49 PM >
| | | | Roof tops are great to be at... I prefer live buildings like hotels, offices, etc. Get quite a kick out of the fact that, although I have lived in my home town for all my life, I still can 'discover' new vistas by just trying to get on some building where I am not supposed to be.
some hotel I have dined like 50 times, suddenly I realized it had a great roof to get on
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musket boy
Location: Maui
Gender: Male
It smells like your grandpa and your feet stick to the floor
| | | | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 7 on 1/1/2009 10:57 PM >
| | | | roof tops is the way to go, ive climbed dozens in my town, my favorite time to go is at night cuz you get to see all the lights and its cool looking down at the people bellow going about their boring mundane lives with no idea that your up there
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adr127
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<Reply # 8 on 1/10/2009 5:25 AM >
| | | | Yeah! Rooftops in Bend Or cause you can look down into the bars at all the drunkards!
"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." -Obama |
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galax
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
| | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 9 on 1/10/2009 1:46 PM >
| | | | theres almost no people that live downtown here, all shops and bars. but theres a couple apartments above shops, and i went to a party once at one of these awsome apartments above a shop, and it was funny how no one looked up at us on the roof as they walked by. truly no one really looks up nowdays inless provoked...
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." |
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dangerousgift
| | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 10 on 2/12/2009 10:42 PM >
| | | | WHAT! I LOVE going onto rooftops! Down here in olympia there are long strings of connected buildings, some with awesome gaps of a couple of feet which, if one is feeling brave, you can jump.
Scaffolding is great, but keep your eyes open for bolted conduit piping. It has to be EMT (metal) pipes. Don't climb plastic or anything with flimsy bolts and stay FAR away from power lines and you should be fine.
Here's the introduction to a zine I started writing about rooftops.
Climbing roof tops is about changing your perspective. It’s about seeing the same thing differently. It’s about having a shared experience with a whole lot of other people. it’s about recognizing the place that you live.
maybe thats too much. maybe it’s just about doing something dangerous and sneaky. maybe a lot of things.
i started climbing roof tops out of boredom and nervousness. my trips downtown were getting hard. i don’t know why. alienation i guess. quitting smoking made me antsy. i was at a show, doing thing i hate when other people do, hanging out out front and drinking secretly in the back room. i went for a walk in the ally behind le voyeur, i looked at some electrical conduits, tugged on them and just climbed up.
it was easy. from a roof, the landscape of a city is very different. i was reminded of one of my favorite gay science lyrics “landscape (duh duh-duh-duh duh) as machine”. the air conditioning vents very vaguely lunar. the roof smelled like french fries. i walked slowly, slipping on the condensation that covered the tar mack.
from the ledge i could see all the way down fourth avenue. people were laughing and smoking just a couple feet below. i tried to stay hidden poking my head just above the roof line like an urban gopher. i climbed around for a little while, kicking old beer cans and taking some pictures.
the sign from the china clipper looked cool so i tried to get a good angle. this required leaning over the street. i felt really obvious, hanging out, bent at the waste. i snapped a few shots with some different exposers. then i just hung there for a little while.
no one saw me. no one looked up.
it was a weird phenomenon. it was being invisible. some police dove by. then some more. they didn’t stop. they didn’t even turn their heads. no one looks up.
i climbed down, exhilarated. i felt like i had discovered something incredible. i didn’t go back to the show. instead i hopped on my bike and rode through the ally ways. it was as if i seeing an entirely different town. instantly everything was foreign. i almost ate shit on curbs a couple of times, my eyes trained on the tops of buildings instead of the road.
i must have climbed eight or nine roofs that night, each one a little more ambitious. fire escapes, water meters, dumpsters, the old scaffolding that used to hold the power transformers. it was all different. new.
to climb a roof top is to take a risk. it’s to spectate. when i’m three or four stories above the street, i’m in a different city. it’s impossible not to get introspective about the place that you live from up there. to see the piecemeal streets suddenly become whole makes me look backward. backward from the context of forward. a movement in two directions. thats what i like about it. it’s seeing what was before you and what you have and what you can do.
from the top of a building, you see a lot of empty space. it’s a promise from the city itself. sometimes i feel like i can see the future from the top of a building.
all i had to do was look up.
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TomUE
Location: Mukilteo WA.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 11 on 2/14/2009 4:24 PM >
| | | | Unfortunately I have a fear of hights.. However it is possible to get up many buildings if you just look for the fire escapes. Most of em are a ways off the ground but theres usually a drain pipe, dumpster or something nearby that you can climb onto. Fox's garage has just such a fire escape.
-Tom
[last edit 2/14/2009 4:26 PM by TomUE - edited 1 times]
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Deuterium
Location: PNW
Gender: Male
| | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 12 on 2/15/2009 7:56 AM >
| | | | Posted by TomUE
Unfortunately I have a fear of hights.. However it is possible to get up many buildings if you just look for the fire escapes. Most of em are a ways off the ground but theres usually a drain pipe, dumpster or something nearby that you can climb onto. Fox's garage has just such a fire escape.
-Tom
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To me, getting on top of roofs that isn't exactly high seems pointless.... Might as well just go to the viewing deck on the Space Needle.
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 13 on 2/15/2009 9:28 AM >
| | | | They don't have to be high to be good. Sometimes it's nice not to be on the highest thing around. You can get a closer view of streets, or even views into other buildings.
I like this thread. Looking up is what separates the people on this forum from normal people.
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UEinthe253
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<Reply # 14 on 7/8/2009 5:22 PM >
| | | | Anyone in Tacoma should check out the rooftop of the old Tacoma city hall. Access is ridiculously easy and security nearly nonexistent. The fire escape is your friend. 
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 15 on 7/8/2009 5:34 PM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
They don't have to be high to be good. Sometimes it's nice not to be on the highest thing around. You can get a closer view of streets, or even views into other buildings.
I like this thread. Looking up is what separates the people on this forum from normal people.
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Low buildings are more interesting than high ones most of the time. You're still able to see the street below and yell at people.
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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UEinthe253
| | Re: Roof tops!
<Reply # 16 on 8/2/2009 12:35 AM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
They don't have to be high to be good. Sometimes it's nice not to be on the highest thing around. You can get a closer view of streets, or even views into other buildings.
I like this thread. Looking up is what separates the people on this forum from normal people.
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Speak for yourself, I love getting high.
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