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YotaMan20
Location: Washington Gender: Male Total Likes: 250 likes
| | | A walk through the "Jungle" with TunnelRunner33 < on 4/4/2016 10:23 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My long drive down to Seattle wasn't disappointing by any means. I met TunnelRunner33, learned some really cool stuff about Seattle and heard some really cool stories. The Jungle was interesting to say the least. Having no idea where to park, TR rode with me and we parked in an alley near the jungle. We were a bit sketched out by a few guys at the entrance so we entered a few blocks down. I kept my camera in my bag much of the time. I did not want to give anybody any ideas... 1. 2. 3. After weaving around the jungle while trying to avoid the came across our first drain... 4. 5. TR and I continued looking for the next place and found it quite shortly after... 6. 7. I went down. It didn't look too promising to me.. 8. When we returned back to my Yota, the back door was slightly ajar. TR said that he may have left it open by accident but I later tested how the locks work and determined that it was unlikely that the door was open, let alone unlocked when we stepped away. it was the only door that was unlocked. Nothing was missing... 9. Thanks again, TR
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| TunnelRunner33
Location: Seattle Gender: Male Total Likes: 143 likes
| | | Re: A walk through the "Jungle" with TunnelRunner33 < Reply # 3 on 4/6/2016 4:11 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | "The Jungle" is a greenbelt area along the Interstate that is known for being a popular spot for homeless encampments. I had been there a few years ago in a semi-official function. I remembered encountering a few drains which looked interesting to me even then, before I was into exploring as a hobby. At that time, I never would have considering climbing down some random manhole (now I think about it at least once a day!). Anyway, it seemed that they were really old, especially one made of brick that stuck up crazily out of the side of the hill. We ended up finding three drains in total, with pipes much too small for a person to explore. They were old, but nowhere near as old as I had hoped. And we found the brick one by following a trail of gravel on a forest hillside. Clearly it is maintained and inspected by someone. We guessed that they had been built at around the same time as the nearby Interstate (I think around 1968-9). I had hoped to find an old, old drain, maybe something left behind from the days of Eugene Semple's cut. With the drains being ruled out, there isn't really much else there I can think of worth looking into, and the area can definitely be dangerous. And as a good friend mentioned to me, it can certainly feel a little morally dubious moving through an area that some folks only inhabit because they don't have many other options. We just tried to be respectful and avoid the people and camps. Even though we didn't find much, I am glad we went. I was able to quash these mental images of a Goonies-style drain complex in the hills, and it is always good to meet another regional explorer. 1. 2.
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| TunnelRunner33
Location: Seattle Gender: Male Total Likes: 143 likes
| | | Re: A walk through the "Jungle" with TunnelRunner33 < Reply # 9 on 4/11/2016 4:53 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by MoleNet94 That's a pretty neato-looking manhole! But the lack of a big drain is par for the course. Seattle's hilly, and surrounded by large bodies of water. You don't find many big drains in cities like that, no matter the rainfall. The topography already does most of the work. I'm sure there are a few drains big enough to move around in, but they'll be a maddeningly small minority. I remember cruising the Seattle storm water/sewer system map a number of years ago, and nothing really jumped out at me. I'd sooner chase waterfront steam tunnels or isolated chunks of The Underground City.
| Yeah, from my experience, this appears to be right on the money. I only know of a couple of drains here large enough to stand up in, and those soon shrink right down to be too small for use. I guess I was just hoping that anything left from Semple's day might not be on the main system anymore, thus not on the maps. I wish we had a setup like LA or SF, drains large enough to ride bicycles through. Ah well.
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