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xxjeremiahxx
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< on 4/21/2007 6:01 AM >
|  | | | From the Interstate the double arches looked impressive...
Upon closer inspection, however...
I had no idea that an arch even existed in C-Springs.
Northern
Southern
This mess less than a mile from the arches...
...from the top...
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big dave
       
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SoCal
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 1 on 4/22/2007 9:02 PM >
| | | | I like the brickwork of the arch. You should try to find out when it was built. Maybe there are records of its maintenance somewhere.
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kc
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Pueblo, Colorado
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 2 on 4/26/2007 7:55 AM >
| | | | their are arches kinda like this under a lot of the train tracks where development hasnt killed them, here anyway. Some are quite neat.
check out near exit 104 on the I near pueblo, their are a few large ones
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Twystr
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39.2N, 104.17W Elev. 6535ft
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 3 on 4/27/2007 9:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by kc
their are arches kinda like this under a lot of the train tracks where development hasnt killed them, here anyway. Some are quite neat.
check out near exit 104 on the I near pueblo, their are a few large ones
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Pueblo's got cooler stuff than c-springs any day
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kc
Noble Donor
location:
Pueblo, Colorado
Gender: Male
"yah, im hangin the drywall at the new Mc. Donalds"
| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 4 on 4/28/2007 2:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by Twystr
Pueblo's got cooler stuff than c-springs any day
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heh...I think the springs is gonna win the "most drains" award for the db. ;P
Pueblo has some cool lookin places, but for some reason this town likes to board everything up. Makes it boring for me.
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Twystr
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Gender: Male
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| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 5 on 4/28/2007 7:19 AM >
| | | | Indeed. Half of em are either mine, or in some way connected to me (photos, story, etc...)
This bridge likely dates from the 1880s when Palmer dropped the Denver & Rio Grande tracks south into Colorado Springs. The re-aligned route is about a mile west along monument creek. The Vincent street bridge used to be (old) Denver Highway back in the day before 25 was built.
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imprezawrxsti
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Portland, OR
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 6 on 4/30/2007 5:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by xxjeremiahxx
This mess less than a mile from the arches...
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There's a shorter set of those in a drain in Denver. Pretty fun to climb.
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xxjeremiahxx
location:
The Strait
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 7 on 4/30/2007 8:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by imprezawrxsti
There's a shorter set of those in a drain in Denver. Pretty fun to climb.
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...they are aren't they. I fail to see the purpose of them.
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imprezawrxsti
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Portland, OR
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 8 on 4/30/2007 9:43 PM >
| | | | Posted by xxjeremiahxx
...they are aren't they. I fail to see the purpose of them.
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slows the water down. keeps it from eroding the concrete too badly, i guess.
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Twystr
location:
39.2N, 104.17W Elev. 6535ft
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 9 on 5/1/2007 6:23 AM >
| | | | Posted by imprezawrxsti
slows the water down. keeps it from eroding the concrete too badly, i guess.
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not so much the concrete itself, but the natural creekbed its going into. a lot fo drains here dont have churns, and the concrete is fine... But the creekbed the drain outfalls into is eroded a lot more.
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Twystr
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Gender: Male
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| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 10 on 5/1/2007 6:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by imprezawrxsti
There's a shorter set of those in a drain in Denver. Pretty fun to climb.
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Is this near Dublin deep in a neighborhood west of Academy by any chance? It shows up real well on satellite maps. The beginning of the ditch is Dominion dr and Academy. if this were part the same system - let me know!
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funker_joe
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Boulder, Colorado
Gender: Male
| |  |  | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 11 on 5/2/2007 7:57 AM >
| | | | DUDE. A couple of my friends and I came across an opening just like that at night... We about shit ourselves. Turns out it looks pretty much exactly like that, but a little longer. Biggest dissappointment yet. Hell, it looks so much like the ones we went under, I thought it was at first.
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imprezawrxsti
location:
Portland, OR
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 12 on 5/2/2007 5:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by funker_joe
DUDE. A couple of my friends and I came across an opening just like that at night... We about shit ourselves. Turns out it looks pretty much exactly like that, but a little longer. Biggest dissappointment yet. Hell, it looks so much like the ones we went under, I thought it was at first.
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shit. you know that drain we had been talking about over at colorado and I25? same thing, looked like the shit, just went under colorado boulevard.
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xxjeremiahxx
location:
The Strait
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 14 on 5/3/2007 4:24 AM >
| | | | Posted by Twystr
Is this near Dublin deep in a neighborhood west of Academy by any chance? It shows up real well on satellite maps. The beginning of the ditch is Dominion dr and Academy. if this were part the same system - let me know!
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...yep. In the very last picture you see Dublin. If you go through that tunnel you end up in a ditch that separates east and west bound Dublin.
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Twystr
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| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 15 on 5/3/2007 8:59 AM >
| | | | Interesting. I can provide a (google earth) KMZ File if so desired. It has most of the more signifigant drain outfalls in the city.
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jeep-w
location:
Denver, CO
Gender: Male
| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 16 on 8/25/2007 12:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by imprezawrxsti
There's a shorter set of those in a drain in Denver. Pretty fun to climb.
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Where?
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Orogeny
location:
39 degrees 44 minutes N, 104 degrees 59 minutes W
Raping people in drains since the summer of '07...
| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 17 on 8/25/2007 12:59 AM >
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Wanna go draining with me?
I believe these structures are called baffle chutes (in case anyone cares). Came across the term while doing research for a paper I never turned in.
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jeep-w
location:
Denver, CO
Gender: Male
| | Re: Double Arches
<Reply # 18 on 8/27/2007 5:48 AM >
| | | | Posted by zone of orogeny
Wanna go draining with me?
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Absolutely. When and where?
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Orogeny
location:
39 degrees 44 minutes N, 104 degrees 59 minutes W
Raping people in drains since the summer of '07...
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<Reply # 19 on 8/27/2007 3:12 PM >
| | | | Send me a PM and let me know when you're available and we'll go from there. And I see you're in Longmont. Can you make it down to Denver?
Subduction leads to orogeny. Duh. |
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