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 Freak
     
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
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< on 5/12/2003 5:58 AM >
|  | | | I guess I'll start posting more stuff on here since the old MSN group is basically dead... I just moved to a new city for the summer and I hope to be doing a lot more exploring. Hopefully I'll be able to update this thread once a week or so, since I already have a few potential targets on my list:
3 NIKE missile sites, I've seen one and friends have explored another.
http://drainfreak.virtualave.net/protected/missile.htm
An abandoned utility tunnel system, supposedly full of satanic grafitti and dead animals on meathooks (much of this is rumor, but I have an offer of a tour by some local punks).
Some abandoned buildings I saw when driving through town.
A wierd bunker/tower thing on the cliffs near the beach, might be a sewer outfall.
The port, rail yards, and industrial areas. Gotta be some abandoned stuff somewhere.
And of course anything else I find while biking/driving around. It's the biggest city in Alaska so there's sure to be a lot to investigate.
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Allva
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
I have my moments.
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 1 on 5/12/2003 1:28 PM >
| | | | Take lots of photos.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 2 on 5/14/2003 5:35 AM >
| | | | I'll take a lot, although I'll probably have to get another free website to store the photos. I went and took pictures of the sewer bunker today, it smells and sounds like a treatment outfall, I guess the bunker is a control or valve structure (It looks like a WWII ammo bunker under a hill, with a concrete retaining wall that comes out on two sides at an angle, and double doors in the middle). I found a grating behind my office building that goes down into some kind of tunnel, it might just be a utility vault though.
Also, Terraserver FINALLY got coverage of Fairbanks, this is what a dredge looks like from the top (lower right of center): http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=2265&y=35953&z=6&w=1
Unfortunately all the dredges In the small coverage path are one's I've found already  and the NIKE base looks to be througohly buldozed. I already found sat photos of one of the Anchorage NIKE bases, http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=12&x=454&y=8491&z=6&w=1 (control and radar at the top right, launch bunkers at the bottom, warhead storage in between).
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 3 on 5/15/2003 6:37 AM >
| | | | A friend of mine who lives about 60 miles from palmer told me a story of finding an abandoned cabin during a rafting trip. Apparently it was exactly as the owner had left it, furniture, household items, magazines, etc. I've always wanted to find something like that in alaska. Last trip up, I did find a few cabins abandoned at least 50 years prior, but they were pretty much barren on the inside. I do love old gold dredges, but top of my list whenever I return is to get to kennicot.
Caput_58
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 4 on 5/15/2003 4:00 PM >
| | | | Kennicot is near the top of my list too... it's just too damn far away at the moment. Every time I see a new picture of the place I vow to go there before it all falls apart. I found a website about the tunnels there, I think I emailed the guy and never heard back from him. http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/2003/mine.html
The independence mine is closer, but smaller and more touristy. I also want to check out the town of Whittier, the entire town is in one huge building (homes, hospital, resturants, gym, stores, school, etc) which is connected by two tunnels to an abandoned building of the same size. Also, the only way to get there is by boat or through North America's longest road tunnel (shared with the railway). It's just a wierd town all around.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 5 on 5/15/2003 4:02 PM >
| | | | Oh, and let me know if you're coming up anytime soon, I've heard from three other explorers who are planning to this summer.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 6 on 5/16/2003 5:03 PM >
| | | | I was hoping to get up this summer, but it doesn't look like I'll make it.
I've always been intrigued by old mine tunnels, but sketched out by the danger. Are they any safer up there? It seems like permafrost could make things a little less unstable.
Caput_58
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 7 on 5/27/2003 4:18 PM >
| | | | I went over to Whittier this weekend, that is one messed up town! The whole thing consists of two huge 1950's concrete buildings, a railyard, a port, and a few garages and tourist stores. There's only a few dozen acres of flat ground and no private property, it looks and feels like a Soviet fishing city.
The inhabited high-rise where most of the population lives is much creepier than the abandoned one. The unfriendly people, the cameras everywhere, the smell of 50 years' worth of fried food, plus the fact that there's no decorations or personal touches aside from the occassional non-regulation doormat make it seem more like a prison than an apartment building or dormitory.
The abandoned Buckner building is very cool, I maxed out my 128mb digital camera with photos, and once I get net access at home I'll have a website update (should be this week). I spent most of Sunday and Monday exploring, camped out in the top floor overnight, and even ran into some other explorers who are interested in doing more expeditions together. I didn't get into the pedestrian tunnels that supposedly run under the whole town, although I found one to the old power plant and lots of little steam tunnels. I also found a small pipeline tunnel through the mountain that runs parrallel to the train/car tunnel which is the only land route into town, and three bunkers on a back road that must be left over from WWII. There are also some drains, but they've done a good job of sealing them off. There's probably more underground stuff per square mile (the only square mile) in this town than anywhere else in Alaska.
In all it was a successful weekend trip, despite the fact that my souveniers included a bloody head wound and the local intestinal parasite. I may go back eventually for a walking tour of the 3 mile rail tunnel and another try at the pedestrian tunnels, but otherwise I think I've seen pretty much everything.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 8 on 5/27/2003 8:22 PM >
| | | | Wow, I had no idea Whittier was that interesting, or that the building(s) were so monolithic. I'll have to keep it in if/when I make it back up north.
Caput_58
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Detroit
Moderator
Location: Ottawa /Gatineau /Montreal
Gender: Male
4-aminophenol and 2-5% potassium hydroxide
| |  | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 10 on 5/28/2003 6:02 PM >
| | | | OMG ... the Buckner building looks increadible! I would give anything to explore a place like that. I think I could literally take a thousand shots there.
Wow.
You should see if you can dig up some pictures of that place when it was in use.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Alaska Stuff
<Reply # 11 on 5/28/2003 11:51 PM >
| | | | Well I did take about 300 pictures, I'm such a nerd  Now I have to trim down the material so it will actually fit online and not bore people. There are lots of historical photos of the town and the earthquake damage in various books, but hardly any of the building's interior. I tried to find a museum or library while I was there, but they were closed.
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