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 wiggitywhack
 |  | Gargantua rookie help!
< on 7/20/2009 3:45 AM >
|  | | | Hi everybody,
I'm interested in Gargantua however I heard that the entrance at Bayview and York Mills was chained and bolted at the bottom of the grates. So how did you lucky people get into the place? And I heard there's manholes, where are these manholes? Please PM me!
Thanks!
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strangePlaces
     
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 1 on 7/20/2009 3:47 AM >
|  | | | Chained and bolted? When the hell that happened?
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Intrinsic
 
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 2 on 7/20/2009 3:52 AM >
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Generally newcomers to the site are not given 'handouts' in terms of places to explore and/or points of entry.
Someone might take a moment to send you a PM but generally the response is going to be something along the lines of, "Go find one on your own". It's because many of us work hard to find new locations, points of entry, etc. and when someone new comes along and just asks for it... well, you can see where I'm going with this.
My suggestion would be to get to know some of the guys at one of the upcoming UER meets, take some photos, post them and begin to become known by others. Then people will be more receptive to sharing details with you.
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| |  | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 3 on 7/20/2009 8:03 PM >
| | | | A few suggestions (aside from googling "Predator's Approach.txt" and reading all of it - no, seriously, read it all, it's worth the read): First, go check out the outfall for yourself. Sometimes they're locked, sometimes they're not, and sometimes some Toronto drainers would rather cut a lock than get creative finding an alternate entry, although I think that's just lazy. But you won't know unless you go for yourself.
Second, and more specific to Gargantua, it's still marked as being an above-ground creek in many map books. Get one, and follow the map (on foot, not in a car), shining a light down manhole lids as you go. If you can't find a way in after doing that, then you probably shouldn't be going into Gargantua anyways.
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Capt Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 4 on 7/20/2009 8:12 PM >
| | | | If you can't get in, you just don't want to get in bad enough.
I did some research on this drain and quickly found the blue prints for it. The storm drains in front of my house drain into it.
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 5 on 7/20/2009 9:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by wiggitywhack
Hi everybody,
I'm interested in Gargantua however I heard that the entrance at Bayview and York Mills was chained and bolted at the bottom of the grates. So how did you lucky people get into the place? And I heard there's manholes, where are these manholes? Please PM me!
Thanks!
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Go and look for them, opposite of where the creek empties. There are lots of them if you would have just gone and looked yourself.
[last edit 7/20/2009 9:38 PM by Air - edited 2 times]
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digital_me
Location: Colorado
Gender: Male
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
| | | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 6 on 7/20/2009 10:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Capt Canada
The storm drains in front of my house drain into it.
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In a way that lets you walk out your front door and enter Gargantua? Wicked.
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Capt Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 7 on 7/21/2009 12:35 AM >
| | | | meh, a few blocks away... nothing like what JTCoalfax has 
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inventor77
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 8 on 7/21/2009 1:46 AM >
| | | | I'm more inclined to share information of this nature to people who genuinely seem interested and less inclined to people who seem to be armchair explorers. Often times the information asked is indeed available by searching Google for two minutes.
Give us some evidence that this is something you're keen on knowing more about. Post photos of outfalls or other drains you've been on.
If you really want to see Gargantua, do some research and actually become engaged in it. The first several drains I explored were found using other people's photographs and hints about their locations (like watersheds, street names, the drain name itself, etc).
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wiggitywhack
| | Re: Gargantua rookie help!
<Reply # 9 on 7/21/2009 4:14 AM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
Go and look for them, opposite of where the creek empties. There are lots of them if you would have just gone and looked yourself.
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We actually did scope it out on Sunday. The grates that we went to was chained and bolted at the bottom.
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