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rob.i.am Gender: Male Carpe noctum \| \|	Advice for a noob? < on 8/30/2008 9:56 PM >

	Awesome site here with some very cool pics! I'm a noob and am looking for advice on getting started. Do I try to find a location on uer.ca (or similar) or do I find a boarded up location "in the wild"? Thanks in advance. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/

b-Rizzle location: New Jersey Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 1 on 8/30/2008 10:11 PM >

	You would probably find the Rookie Forum very helpful. Don't ask for handouts, find your own places (it's much more fun that way). Just go explore some shit, don't get in caught, use your head, and have fun. Welcome.

rob.i.am

Gender: Male

Carpe noctum

Re: Advice for a noob?
<Reply # 2 on 8/31/2008 12:35 AM >

Posted by b-Rizzle
You would probably find the Rookie Forum very helpful.

Don't ask for handouts, find your own places (it's much more fun that way). Just go explore some shit, don't get in caught, use your head, and have fun.

Welcome.

Thanks. I'm going through the rookie forum now. "Don't ask for handouts"? Damn. Um, I can accept them if offered though? <he said hopefully>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/

Intrinsic location: Collingwood Gender: Male \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 3 on 8/31/2008 4:19 AM >

	Some ways to find them: country roads, Google maps to search out backroads and any buildings that appear along them, take the roads less travelled, Google for your city and the word 'abandoned'.

shotgun mario location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 4 on 8/31/2008 5:34 AM >

	http://www.youtube...atch?v=2JZ1Kzv6j0U seriously... I think it's the best way to get into exploring. Riding a bike will introduce you to looking at your daily routes in your neighborhood differently, and pretty soon you'll be seeing all of the buildings & other features differently, finding that some of them are interesting. Maybe not 'UE' as is found on this site, but if they interest you, go wander them. Get your feet wet... don't try and blaze into some factory with high security or anything of the like. If you enjoy exploring, then you'll only continue to do it more, and the locations will get better. The way I weed out if my friends are explore-worthy is I take them to something that isn't all that great... if they enjoy it, they are invited to come more; and if they don't, well, I don't invite them again unless they beg. On a lighter note, Welcome to the site, and I hope that you enjoy yourself here, and don't get to turned off by the amount of sarcasm here on the forums. [last edit 8/31/2008 5:35 AM by shotgun mario - edited 1 times] If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies!

rob.i.am

Gender: Male

Carpe noctum

Re: Advice for a noob?
<Reply # 5 on 8/31/2008 6:48 PM >

Thanks guys. I appreciate the advice.

Posted by shotgun_mario

Get your feet wet... don't try and blaze into some factory with high security or anything of the like.

No worries. I'm old enough to know better!

Posted by shotgun_mario

On a lighter note, Welcome to the site, and I hope that you enjoy yourself here, and don't get to turned off by the amount of sarcasm here on the forums.

Yeah, I noticed there was a bit of sarcasm here. Most of it seems to be in good fun and the rest is outweighed by great information from interesting people.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/

The Nozzmiester

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Deepest Darkest Australia.
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Re: Advice for a noob?
<Reply # 6 on 8/31/2008 10:32 PM >

Posted by rob666

Thanks. I'm going through the rookie forum now. "Don't ask for handouts"? Damn. Um, I can accept them if offered though? <he said hopefully>

Course you can.

He's referring more to the occasional type who ask "How do I get into Abandoned Hospital XYZ" or "Can you give me the directions to Abandoned Asylum ABC" in open forum, and honsetly expect the full chapter and verse to be given to them. That's when the sarcasm usually hits full force.

Half the fun's finding your own ways to sites and solutions to entry issues, that's why it's called Exploring.

Anyway, welcome, from an also relative noob to another noob.

Opheliaism Moderator location: Out on the border of everything and nothing, TN Ophie \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 7 on 8/31/2008 11:57 PM >

	Welcome! And just grow some thick skin and it's good to see someone who understands sarcasm as an addition to our midst! Show up at 9:30 with 15 dollars cash and your fingers crossed. <Mandias> I think she's gonna slug that cop. -------------------------------------------------------- <Axle> "She's just not a farmer Owen, she has too much of her Father in her." <Axle> Death by Hut

Russ location: Stockholm Gender: Female \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 8 on 9/1/2008 7:42 PM >

	Welcome! To begin with you might want to start with sharpening your skills first, but hey you can always practice on site. Great places to start exploring would probably be TRULY abandoned buildings, were no one has been around for a couple of years, when you start getting better you can start on factories and evn places that aren´t abandoned att all ;)

insainly sound location: Bay Area, CA Gender: Female How'd we get here, and how are we getting out of here?! \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 9 on 9/4/2008 2:42 PM >

	Well I figure I should throw my two cents in... I know everyone says drive around and look, but I swear I couldn't do that when I first started! I still glimpsed over tons of abandoned buildings. Now it's different I now spot them fairly quickly, but I've got a slightly more trained eye now.... How I got that trained eye was exploring. I found sites by looking at my area's local explorers, figuring out where they went, and then figuring where that site was, then I would go explore it... Simple. Soon I started "discovering" sites of my own.... Check out my photo blog!

Maverick Hunter location: Wayne, Wv Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 10 on 9/5/2008 12:27 AM >

	Places where I live are generally two small to harbour any out of the way nooks and crannies. Random buildings like the others said are a good starting point.

Lord above and beyond \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 11 on 9/5/2008 12:53 AM >

	best advice for a noob don't say noob.. other than that don't ask the hobo's if there are other things worth noting in the abandonment you are in and if they have time, can they give you tours I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on

Capt Canada Gender: Male \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 12 on 9/5/2008 4:48 AM >

	Go to don valley brickworks, the place is wide open... last time I was there, there were 60 year old ladies in full length coats wondering around.

rob.i.am

Gender: Male

Carpe noctum

Re: Advice for a noob?
<Reply # 13 on 9/6/2008 4:04 AM >

Posted by Capt Canada
Go to don valley brickworks, the place is wide open... last time I was there, there were 60 year old ladies in full length coats wondering around.

Cougars! Rich cougars!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/

pinkspider location: arkansas Gender: Female i think so brain but where will we find a camel for prince at this time of night? \| \| \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 14 on 9/11/2008 10:46 PM >

	my best advice is look around when driving that's how i have found at least 75 % of my sites. now feel free to look through the database for something to start with. my first trip was to a place from the DB that i knew i wouldn't get in trouble for being in and slowly i'm getting braver and braver. and attend meets! not only have i met wonderful people i got to go into sites i would have never dared before because i was with people that knew what they were doing.

flux location: North Carolina Gender: Male so many places... so little time... \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 15 on 9/12/2008 3:56 AM >

	Sar.. what??? Who uses that anymore??? Capturing God's beauty and mans decay.

rob.i.am Gender: Male Carpe noctum \| \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 16 on 9/13/2008 8:39 PM >

	Did my first UE today! It was an easy one (thanks Capt Canada) and I only had about 15 mins because my wife and two kids were at the outdoor market next door but it was awesome! http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/

rob.i.am

Gender: Male

Carpe noctum

Re: Advice for a noob?
<Reply # 17 on 9/13/2008 8:55 PM >

I only had a point and shoot with me and I may not have been dressed in traditional UE gear but it was pretty cool anyway.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/

Lord

above and beyond

Re: Advice for a noob?
<Reply # 18 on 9/13/2008 10:50 PM >

Posted by rob666
I only had a point and shoot with me and I may not have been dressed in traditional UE gear but it was pretty cool anyway.

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nope.. men dressing in skirts is pretty standard traditional UE garb

nice pics

I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on

Skold location: Toronto Gender: Female done. \|	Re: Advice for a noob? <Reply # 19 on 9/15/2008 12:21 AM >

	Give the man full membership pronto! Next photos sets should include a cosplay theme!

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