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1 2 3   UER Forum > Archived Rookie Forum > How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? (Viewed 1274 times) Tetrodotoxin  Location: NNJ  |  How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? < on 12/5/2008 10:12 PM >   a bit of an obvious question, but i'm interested in reading other peoples thoughts on the matter. in my personal experience, i never went into sewers or spillways during the winter or spring, when it was raining or just after a storm passed cause water was still flowing. i'd usually wait til summer or dry spell/drought. of course that may not be the best weather and season to explore all places. i'm just wondering about wooden floors and stairs. getting too dried out in the heat. is it any better or worse to go when they still might be moist? my exploration into old wooden structures is very limited. thanks for any input. chumpster  Location: chicago Gender: Male Mondo Rondo  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 1 on 12/5/2008 11:09 PM >   Well I go for the places that are still intact like hospitals for when the weather is nasty. But if its a spot I REALLY want to go to I might just go no matter what the weather condition is. http://flickr.com/photos/applefaces/ Steed  Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 2 on 12/6/2008 2:09 AM >   I don't let it affect my plans and will usually go rain or shine. However, the big advantage of the winter is that there are a lot fewer foul odours, and less vegetation. Timmypenn  Location: Western, NY Gender: Male  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 3 on 12/6/2008 2:18 AM >   Does anyone find that footprints in the snow tip off security more often? Not much we can do about it I suppose other than being conscious of where we leave our mark. Any thoughts on this? maypost  Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground Gender: Male Exploring if for n00bz0rz  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 4 on 12/6/2008 2:57 AM >   Posted by racetraitor I don't let it affect my plans and will usually go rain or shine. However, the big advantage of the winter is that there are a lot fewer foul odours, and less vegetation. SOOOOO true Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005 vapula  Location: kitchener, ontario Gender: Male  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 5 on 12/6/2008 6:56 AM >   haha! no way! i went out today and it was FREZING! but that didn`t stop us! and true! if there are dead things they don`t smell as bad .....wah? Tetrodotoxin  Location: NNJ  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 6 on 12/6/2008 9:50 AM >   i could seen not smelling things as a advantage or disadvantage depending on what it is. i'm just thinking about wood...messing around in a shop i found a dry old piece and crushed it in my hands. a piece that was from the same pallets but near a shipping door where it got wet had a little more strength to it. made me think maybe damp weather might be advantageous when exploring older structures. DevilC  Location: Washington, District of Corruption Gender: Male I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 7 on 12/6/2008 10:31 AM >   I think that is an exercise in common sense: Posted by Tetrodotoxin my personal experience, i never went into sewers or spillways during the winter or spring, when it was raining or just after a storm passed cause water was still flowing. i'd usually wait til summer or dry spell/drought. Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. Azubi.UK  Location: UK / KSA Gender: Male  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 8 on 12/6/2008 12:31 PM >   I live in the UK (well, for the next 3 days). It always rains and has horrible weather. Therefore rain or shine, I explore. I think that is an exercise in common sense I agree. made me think maybe damp weather might be advantageous when exploring older structures. Old buildings get fucked up by water ingress. You'll be suprised how quickly a building like an asylum can go downhill once the lead flashing has been ripped off a roof and rain water has started to get in. It will kill a place off quicker than vandals ever could. Does anyone find that footprints in the snow tip off security more often? Not much we can do about it I suppose other than being conscious of where we leave our mark. Any thoughts on this? It also allows you to see how often security patrols, where they patrol and also gives you a route to follow aswell as if you stick to thier path, they expect it to be thier own prints unless, of course, you take a mass group making loads of prints around security's. At the same time, wet footprints from rain will show up, mud prints will show up and so will dust prints when it is nice and dry. The 11th Commandment: Don't get caught! broaddaylight  Location: new joisey Gender: Female thats me on the left, notice how im eye level with his man meat  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 9 on 12/6/2008 1:18 PM >   no ticks in winter Steal only whatever you can run with comfortably and leave no footprints hydrotherapy  Clever Girl Location: Circle of Least Confusion RPS is inside all of us  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 10 on 12/6/2008 2:44 PM >   Winter freezes up otherwise rotting/soft/squishy wood and makes it a little bit safer. And freezes pigeon poop. Key for some Northeast locations. Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. PhotoSeeker  Location: Sudbury Gender: Male MikeOnline  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 11 on 12/6/2008 2:56 PM >   I personally tend to hibernate during the winter. Mostly because I'm just not a big fan of the cold, and believe humans were meant to migrate. That being said, I don't like leaving obvious trails in fresh snow that I'm there, but moreover is the fact that snow tends to obscure hazards that may be waiting underfoot. I prefer to see where I'm stepping. I don't like worrying about my camera continuing to work, and I don't like holding my breath to ensure that steam doesn't get in the shot. I don't like the distasteful shade of blue my fingers turn as I'm holding the camera. So, I crawl out of my den in March, hungry, a little grumpy, and with bleary, sleep-filled eyes, search out my first location of the new year. Lots of Urban Exploration goodness at https://urbexobsession.com maypost  Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground Gender: Male Exploring if for n00bz0rz  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 12 on 12/6/2008 4:37 PM >   It could be July in Death Valley, if I am exploring with mANVIL, it will be -20 outside at high noon. Freezing exploring FTW! Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005 whistlebait  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Cincinnati, OH Gender: Female "There is no top. There are always further heights to reach."  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 13 on 12/6/2008 5:45 PM >   Ice isn't fun. "I occasionally play works by contemporary composers for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven." -Jascha Heifetz -Little known fact, Serious Cat is the enforcer of Ceiling Cat maypost  Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground Gender: Male Exploring if for n00bz0rz  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 14 on 12/6/2008 6:07 PM >   Not with that attitude! Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005 DevilC  Location: Washington, District of Corruption Gender: Male I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 15 on 12/7/2008 3:34 AM >   Plus 1. Posted by David Dong if I am exploring with mANVIL, it will be -20 outside at high noon. Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. AKphill  Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male Exploring the 49th state.  |  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 16 on 12/7/2008 5:28 AM >   Winter in the big AK sucks for exploring. Too dark, too cold, too much snow, which it is doing as I write this. Summertime though...worth the wait. Rinzler  Location: New Jersey Nomad  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 17 on 12/7/2008 6:49 PM >   If there is fresh snow, i usually tend to walk where people wont see footprints....And unless its downpouring, ill usually still go to explore a hospital/prison/school. So it has to be some pretty shitty weather to stop me. And if its cold, just bundle up. yokes  Location: Toronto Gender: Male I aim to misbehave  |  |  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 18 on 12/7/2008 9:12 PM >   I tend to go more often in the winter for some godforsaken reason. Advantages: Shorter days = less time between "good light" times, and shorter waits if you have to hide out until dark. (plus other advantages people have mentioned) Disadvantages: tracks, less vegetative cover, fucking freezing. "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel Air  Location: Canada  |  Re: How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? <Reply # 19 on 12/7/2008 9:19 PM >   Well I had something planned today but it was so inhospitable outside that I decided to stay in and build a website instead. If visiting a location that requires a long walk in, or is totally exposed, I'd much rather wait until a break in nice weather because I'm usually walking or taking the bus. If I had my own car this would be a little different. "The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist UER Forum > Archived Rookie Forum > How does the weather and seasons affect your exploring? 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