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 jjbigups
  
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
 |  | here's a drain (Boston area)
< on 2/5/2010 8:49 AM >
|  | | | Not in Boston proper, but real close:
And a bit of a ways inside:
A full write-up will come when I explore the whole thing and take some more pictures. I just figured the board was quiet enough that no one would mind a superfluous post like this.
But in short, here are some things I've learned:
- Holy shit; waders actually work.
So draining in winter is (apparently) no problem at all. [withdrawn]
- Maps aren't always right, thankfully.
- Drains are really hard to take pictures of.
- But if you're going to try anyway, tripods are THE BEST.
[last edit 2/6/2010 8:59 AM by jjbigups - edited 3 times]
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A.P.
| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 1 on 2/5/2010 2:01 PM >
| | | | Nice,
I had been looking for some good traditional outfalls - most of them were submerged outfalls though. Thats pretty cool, you should explore it all, map it maybe.
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trent
    
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
| |  | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 2 on 2/5/2010 3:21 PM >
| | | | The growing Boston drain scene makes trent happy. Keep up the good work!
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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injektilo
Location: The Northeast
Gender: Male
Ride or Die
| |  | | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 3 on 2/5/2010 4:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
The growing Boston drain scene makes trent happy. Keep up the good work!
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I'm sad I'm not there anymore to be part of it.
I'll be back monday for a week so if anyone has any time I'd love to go check some out.
If I was really created in God’s image then when God was a boy he wanted to grow up to be a man, a good man, and when God was a man, a good man, he started telling the truth in order to get honest responses. |
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MrGreenJeans
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| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 4 on 2/5/2010 9:54 PM >
| | | | Nice! Looks like it floods a bit with all the crap caught on the wall, watch out for the snow next week if you go again. Think you could take a kayak into it? I've taken mine in the drain we have here all the way up until the water got only a couple inches deep at the infall.
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jjbigups
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 5 on 2/6/2010 12:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by A.P.
I had been looking for some good traditional outfalls - most of them were submerged outfalls though.
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Yeah! It sucks! Do you have any idea how much drains rise up (and become navigable) beyond submerged outfalls? I imagine a drain which was completely full of water wouldn't do much good, you know, as a drain. But I dunno.
Posted by trent
The growing Boston drain scene makes trent happy. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks! You... you make me happy, trent.
Posted by injektilo
I'll be back monday for a week so if anyone has any time I'd love to go check some out.
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Yeahyeahyeah!
Posted by MrGreenJeans
Think you could take a kayak into it?
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Haha, I conveniently left off anything which would suggest scale from the second photo. The tunnel is around six feet tall. The water at the bottom goes up mid-calf or so (although it's deeper elsewhere). Not much of a use for boats in these humble parts.
[last edit 2/6/2010 12:05 AM by jjbigups - edited 1 times]
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xRawrcoonx
Location: Metro North, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 6 on 2/6/2010 12:43 AM >
| | | | Hmm. These are everywhere really. Gotta get out them rainboots tho.
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jjbigups
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 7 on 2/6/2010 9:12 AM >
| | | | So I checked out this other outflow in Boston tonight. Tunnel was bigger, water was deeper, but it was a tease! ...for there was nothing to see at the end but a sad little ~2ft pipe.
And the place was fucking cold. The water was covered by a fairly thick layer of ice which I had to break up with my tripod as I went along. I managed to get my gloves wet, and my gloves suck, so that wasn't great. In general, the water was much colder than the previous drain's... winter was not ignorable at all.
Tunnel, looking back toward outflow:
Sad little pipe:
Wish I'd taken a picture of the fish which was flopping around on top of the ice before I freed it. (How'd it get there?)
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mr.v
Location: Rhode Island
Gender: Male
"Man cannot separate means and enlightenment"
| | | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 8 on 2/10/2010 4:14 PM >
| | | | Maybe take along a hiking GPS and do the synch to google maps thing? This would be easier than trying to draw it out.
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RenegadeOfFunk
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 9 on 2/10/2010 4:46 PM >
|  | | | Posted by mr.v
Maybe take along a hiking GPS and do the synch to google maps thing? This would be easier than trying to draw it out.
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GPS's don't work underground...
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jjbigups
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 10 on 2/11/2010 1:23 AM >
| | | | Posted by RenegadeOfFunk
GPS's don't work underground...
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They would if I installed my own satellites... underground...
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makman
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
| | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 11 on 2/11/2010 1:49 AM >
| | | | And the place was fucking cold. The water was covered by a fairly thick layer of ice which I had to break up with my tripod as I went along. I managed to get my gloves wet, and my gloves suck, so that wasn't great. In general, the water was much colder than the previous drain's... winter was not ignorable at all.
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In my experience, that's less the case with drains as they get further from the outfall. A drain being underground, they tend to pick up the temperature from the surrounding earth. The deeper they are and the less airflow there is from the outside, the closer you're going to be to ~50ish degrees and no ice.
Be careful, not safe.
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Moxx
Location: Massachusetts
Gender: Female
The kid with the chemicals
| | | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 12 on 2/11/2010 2:49 AM >
| | | | Posted by trent
The growing Boston drain scene makes trent Moxx happy. Keep up the good work!
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Oh, and I also second what makman is saying. The more you delve underground, the more tepid the water becomes.
Known some call is air am. |
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 13 on 2/11/2010 4:17 AM >
| | | | Wind is worse on your body than temperature (more so when doing up high stuff) I'll take 10*F with no wind over 30*F and 30MPH winds.
Drains aren't windy, and if you're going through one and suddenly feel gusty wind that means it's time to get the fuck outta there because there's a good chance that rapidly rising water is displacing the air and it's a warning sign of flash flooding.
I don't see how drains "improve" in the winter, (maybe the few that ice over and make pretty pictures) but they are certainly more hospitable than other types of activities..
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Dowcet
Location: Middletown, ct
| | | Re: here's a drain (Boston area)
<Reply # 14 on 7/24/2010 5:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by injektilo
I'm sad I'm not there anymore to be part of it.
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Ditto!
I'm passing through about a week from now, and will have a bit of a tight schedule, but I am hoping to continue exploring an infall that I started scouting years ago. I've heard from one of you on this thread that it gets pretty huge ;) PM if you're interested in meeting up.
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