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 lovelife
  
Location: D-Town
Gender: Male
Hide yo kids, Hide yo wife
 |  | The Lost Items or Close Calls
< on 11/19/2013 7:26 PM >
|  | | | The other day a friend and I were exploring a missile silo that was pretty decayed and had many pitfalls that would be prime keepers for anything that you may not be extra cautious with. So, we were setting up cameras, flashes, and other gear that we were using to capture the pictures that we were ever so hasty to capture. I bent over to look through the viewfinder and heard a *tingtingting* sound, at that time I about shit a carrot knowing exactly what fell out of my pocket without even looking. I don't know how, but my phone managed to land perfectly flat on the hole riddled, metal grates that was the floor of the platform that we were standing on. If I wouldn't have been so lucky, I'd be buying myself a new phone because there would have been absolutely no way that I would have been able to find it. After experiencing this for myself, I want to know what is your worst close call or worst loss?
And i only explore with the strobe setting. The standard setting is for squares. People tend to get a little upset with me, but it's the only way to truly live. -Relik |
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VanBrewton
Location: Atlanta
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 1 on 11/19/2013 7:30 PM >
| | | | To date, my only loss has been a real nice machete i had to get through was was once heavy brush. Ended up i didn't need it and ditched it before we got to location. Wildlife ranger pulled up on us and now that machete will be found in a decade or two by another explorer or construction crew.
I Fix Things |
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randomesquephoto
 
Don't be a Maxx
| | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 2 on 11/19/2013 7:36 PM >
| | | | Almost lost myself by falling through a floor.
RIP Blackhawk |
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GLP.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 3 on 11/19/2013 7:40 PM >
| | | | Besides almost drunkenly falling off of things to my death I have lost about 5 knives so far but Ive learned to not to take anything with me im not willing to break or lose.
We are professionals pretending to be amateurs. |
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dtewsacrificial
Location: Bay Area, CA
Gender: Male
On my way out the door.
| |  | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 4 on 11/19/2013 8:01 PM >
| | | | The most memorable (for myself) was a car emergency jack handle that I had used to lift a manhole grate in order to access a building from below.
I thought I was playing it safe by trying to exit an hour-and-a-half before daybreak, but lo-and-behold I could not find the jack handle. Being that I take leave-no-trace very seriously (probably more seriously than I should), and I ended up spending over an hour combing the inside of the multi-story building by ambient light (one of those infils). I eventually found it in obscured by shadows in a corner or the building.
Having pushed my exit closer to daybreak, it led to this:
http://www.uer.ca/...id=1&msgid=1611951.
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lovelife
Location: D-Town
Gender: Male
Hide yo kids, Hide yo wife
| | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 5 on 11/19/2013 8:18 PM >
| | | | lmao, just pop out saying morning. That is pretty funny, so many other people would probably have been alarmed at minimum
And i only explore with the strobe setting. The standard setting is for squares. People tend to get a little upset with me, but it's the only way to truly live. -Relik |
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EsseXploreR
  
Location: New Jersey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 6 on 11/19/2013 10:38 PM >
| | | | I was at the Essex Jail Annex with some buddies when I heard my phone fall through a catwalk that went all the way down into no mans land. After thinking about how to tell my parents, my friend found it. Just a few months earlier, I found his gem covered high school championship ring in the woods where we were getting high. I also found his wallet with $2000 dollars in it on the street a year later. But that's another story.
Also, within this past month I thought I lost my iPhone in Middletown psych. Turns out it was in a diner in town we stopped at.
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BrandonFireKing
Location: Maryville, TN
Gender: Male
No sir thats my anti-hobo tactical cutting device
| | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 7 on 11/20/2013 1:14 AM >
| | | | Was trying to take these photos
and caught my camera by the tripod before it hit the water, almost fell onto it when i was climbing back to my car as well
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Apparently that DID just happen. And I AM proud of it |
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Steed
   
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 8 on 11/20/2013 11:38 AM >
| | | | I've lost everything from cell phones and lens caps to gloves and flashlights, the former two of which I safely recovered.
The weirdest thing was a couple years ago when I used to celebrate Clocktower Night, which was a brief period on Friday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 when the church next to my apartment was open and everyone was in the basement, so I could slip in and go up to the top, where I would take pictures like this:
One time I went, and after I'd come down I went to the convenience store from a beer, at which point I discovered I didn't have my wallet. I had to run back up to the church, go all the way up to the interior of the clocktower, and search around for my wallet which contained my ID as well as money and bank cards. I never wore those pants exploring again.
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Matt
Location: Massachusetts
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 9 on 11/20/2013 4:55 PM >
| | | | Luckily over all the years Ive been doing this all I've lost was some lens caps and a winter hat. I've probably found at least 3 cell phones for every cap I've dropped. Working flashlights are another thing I seem to find a ton of, like 10 or so a year.
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billmclaugh
| | | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 10 on 11/21/2013 1:04 AM >
| | | | I parked and headed towards my quarry about 1/2 a mile down a slight embankment, with wet overgrowth all around. Sure enough, I slipped, fell on my brains, and my glasses came off. Immediate panic, quickly replaced with the thought of "don't panic - they probably didn't go far". I felt around me in the brush and sure enough, found 'em. Driving 250 miles back home without glasses wouldn't have been good for anybody.
"Once more unto the breach ... " |
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Adventure Crime
Location: Cleveland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 11 on 11/21/2013 1:24 AM >
| | | | My dignity.
But that was long ago. Haha.
I've sworn that I've lost camera batteries, flashlights, and other things, but they've always turned up in the bottom of my bag or in the car somewhere. Luckily the worst thing I've lost is a pair of gloves or two.
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jonrev
Location: Lake Wazzapamani
Gender: Male
Observer of obsolesence
| | | Re: The Lost Items or Close Calls
<Reply # 12 on 11/21/2013 1:35 AM >
| | | | At the Palace in Gary I had a derp moment and took a step through a hole in the floor (where an air duct from the basement would've been) up to my thigh. In the process I banged the body of my D3100 against the concrete ground rather hard, but fortunately it survived.
The only real loss has been an el-cheapo "floatable lantern" style flashlight that I dropped at Dixie Square a few times until the plastic shell finally broke.
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