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AKBC
  
location:
Colorado
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 40 on 2/24/2009 2:15 PM >
|  | | | Although exploring alone can have its temptations...it is safer to go with at least one other person. If you're going to go alone, make sure to have a cell phone and tell at least one person where you are planning on going so if you don't return they know where to start looking for you.
I was recently exploring with 3 other people and stepped right through a rotten wood floor up to my hip, could've been really bad if I fell all the way through, and if I was alone I might've just laid there injured for who knows how long. Even bringing a cell phone might not help you if you become so injured you can't reach it/no signal/it breaks/etc. etc.
So try to network and find at least one person to go with (this site prob has many people in your area), and if you have no luck be very careful when you do go.
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Havoc Deviant
location:
Pittsburgh
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 41 on 2/26/2009 11:08 PM >
| | | | Most of the time I go by myself, but sometimes I go with someone. It's better to go with someone, but sometimes hard to find someone.
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Rufus McKoi
location:
Pennsylvania
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<Reply # 42 on 3/9/2009 10:12 PM >
| | | | I've always gone with other people, but lately I've just been exploring by myself. None of my friends at college are interested in UE, so the only time I have company is when I head back home.
And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might;
Since it was better to glimpse the sky and perish,
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Dougo
Wrong account -- Look for other Doug
location:
Victoria, Australia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 43 on 3/15/2009 8:07 AM >
| | | | A few posts mention not going into tunnels alone and that is the best answer, but the experience of been in a tunnel on your own is totally different (for me anyway).
Your senses are alert... every sound seems more defined... light coming in up above looks like something it isn't... a bunch of rocks ahead become a body.
I stop thinking about the real world above (even though it's only 6ft above).
I usually do drains with other people because I like the social side of it, but I wouldn't suggest exploring a drain that you don't know alone.
"Tell a trustworthy friend" is a good suggestion as well - trustworthy as in they will notice you haven't texted them 15 minutes after the due time and not when they wake up for another bong 
Cheers,
Doug
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jhuck
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 44 on 3/28/2009 3:52 AM >
| | | | I've never gone into a location alone. I'm only 5'4 and the people in this city are already scary enough without having to meet them in an abandoned building. I don't know anyone in my area who will go with me, and last time I even just went to take pictures of the outside of a remote location my roomate chewed me out for not at least telling her I was going there incase I didn't come home. My only defense is a good can o' pepper spray.
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BLiP23
location:
Houston
Gender: Male
Whats next
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<Reply # 45 on 3/28/2009 6:05 AM >
| | | | I try to drag somebody along just incase some of the hobos can get mean in Houston. I sometimes go alone but like tonight I awesome hyperextended my knee hopping off a fence I know had it actualy broke I would of been sol I mainly do buildings also!
The world is my playground I will not be held back! |
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ObliviousAlly
location:
Warren, OH
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 46 on 3/28/2009 6:51 AM >
| | | | Looking back, I've actually never gone alone on any of my outings. Even if the ones in my teenage years weren't exactly exploring and more like being stupid kids. There was always a group of us.
If I feel comfortable about the location, I'm willing to do it alone. But, honestly, I find it a lot more fun going with someone.
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.
- Destruction, in SANDMAN #72, part three of "The Wake" |
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Lucifer
location:
Hamilton Ontario
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<Reply # 47 on 3/28/2009 11:12 AM >
| | | | I scout alone. I find places, show friends pictures and ask if they want to go.
I have lots of friends who are interested in coming along it just never fits anyones schedules.
I also don't just ask anyone. I've invited my brother, my babysitter's boyfriend who is just awesome, and my x-best friend who has a gf and no time for friends (Yes you) and my little brother who lives hours away but other than that Tamara is wicked busy with things in her life so who's coming with me to the demo site?
Not going alone, it's a demo site.
I'd never go alone, I'd go IN alone but I'd never go TO a site alone. Ever. Just knowing someone will shout over that fence if you don't come back out when you said you would.
That's reassuring. Good to have someone watching your back too, I like walkie talkies but the ones I bought kind of crapped out on me already so I returned them lol!
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G.U.
location:
Sudbury/Meaford, ON Canada QC
Gender: Male
Get your F****** towel ready.
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<Reply # 48 on 3/28/2009 5:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by ObliviousAlly
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.
- Destruction, in SANDMAN #72, part three of "The Wake"
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Thats awesome ObliviousAlly
Attitude is everything. Slightly off topic, but hey...True. If you go alone someplace dangerous and think the whole time "Man, I'm gonna get myself killed here today."
You just might ha
~"Why did the geologist take his girlfriend to the quarry? She wanted to get a little boulder, and He wanted to get his rocks off."~ ~When your hands are tied, Kick...Ass ~ My Flickr! |
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yokes
 
location:
Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
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<Reply # 49 on 3/28/2009 5:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by brentlowboil
How do you feel about exploring alone?
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I usually explore with others. I'm a pretty social person, and I like the safety in numbers. I can count on one hand the number of times I've done it solo. Wait.. that didn't sound right.
That being said, the only time I fell through a floor, I was with others.. and they didn't come when I called out for some help. And even when I'm with others, I tend to go off on my own anyway. hrm.
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"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Morbid_Frost
location:
The Hesh Pit
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 50 on 3/28/2009 6:14 PM >
| | | | i never go alone...3 people is the perfect amount
"The world needs darkness, because the excess of light neither illuminates us nor shelters us but it blinds us and burns us". - Varg Vikernes
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Tamara
location:
Toronto
Gender: Female
Blindly Ever Onward
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<Reply # 51 on 3/28/2009 7:38 PM >
| | | | going alone is like masturbating, its good but better with someone else
blindly ever onward |
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Lucifer
location:
Hamilton Ontario
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<Reply # 52 on 3/28/2009 10:18 PM >
| | | | Does that mean you took my Hamilton UE virginity?
"It's fine, I do that part better myself anyways" ...or we get fences to do that job.
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ObliviousAlly
location:
Warren, OH
Gender: Female
| | | | | Re: Going alone
<Reply # 53 on 3/28/2009 10:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by GrounderUnder
Thats awesome ObliviousAlly
Attitude is everything. Slightly off topic, but hey...True. If you go alone someplace dangerous and think the whole time "Man, I'm gonna get myself killed here today."
You just might ha
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Yeah, if I start getting a bad feeling about a place (and it isn't just be being a little spooked about being somewhere alone), I back out and find someone to go with. So far, I've been a pretty good judge of places. But, better safe than sorry, in my opinion.
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.
- Destruction, in SANDMAN #72, part three of "The Wake" |
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Lucifer
location:
Hamilton Ontario
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<Reply # 54 on 3/29/2009 1:53 AM >
| | | | Exactly why I haven't gone to that demo site yet. I KNOW I'm going to get hurt, how bad? Maybe some bruises. But if it's something serious I want to know that ten feet away is my life line.
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Persephone13
location:
Orlando, FL
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Going alone
<Reply # 55 on 3/31/2009 10:40 PM >
| | | | A group of two works best in my opinion. There's someone there in case you do something clutzy or stupid, you have assistance for climbing, and an extra lookout if need be to alert you of trouble.
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N1Hawk
location:
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 56 on 4/1/2009 2:24 AM >
| | | | I agree with the previous poster! Going alone is not a good idea, Ive been every where with a friend now, he makes a good lookout, a good person with ideas on hopping, how to enter etc!
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AKphill
location:
Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
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<Reply # 57 on 4/1/2009 2:57 PM >
| | | | I've done a few small locations by myself and two solo trips to a large building in Whittier, but I usually will bring someone else with me. Of course I learned the hard way that bringing 12 people along is just asking for trouble. 
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Cochiseg
location:
Canada
Gender: Male
Scary rabbit, isn't it?
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<Reply # 58 on 4/6/2009 12:51 AM >
| | | | It really depends on what location you want to explore. If it is safe and there isn't a reason to get caught, i don't think you even need to warn anyone, but if the floor isn't in a good state, or there might be some complications, id warn someone, and find a partner
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wopke
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 59 on 4/6/2009 6:16 PM >
| | | | 50/50 here. But when we are in group, its more chill. And when you get in trouble, youre not alone
I tried being reasonable, I didnt like it. - Clint Eastwood |
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