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Above the hall just outside the vaults is this huge grate. We're right near a major concert hall, and a big show had just let out, so you could hear lots of happy and slightly drunk people cutting up. |
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Super-long soda straws in one section of the vault. Phil looks longingly toward them. He must really love soda. |
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Next we crouched our way along a really, really long stretch of tunnel that I hadn't bothered with before. It never really seemed to go anywhere, so we eventually doubled back. |
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Animal poop!. |
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Next we tried another smaller tunnel that I'd checked out once previously, but not all the way. |
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A nice view in the direction of downtown. |
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Some of it was relatively new or at least had been rebuilt in the last ten years. |
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As we got underneath what I think was the West End (never could get a GPS reading), we noticed loads more trash. |
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A low spot in the road. |
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We thought we'd reached the end of the line, but then we realized we could make a right turn. |
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I went a little bit farther than the other guys in the hopes there'd be something interesting, but it just seemed to continue like this for a long way ahead and eventually I just gave up on this stretch. |
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Maybe when this section was installed? |
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"Tripod goes where?" |
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We planned to exit through a small hole in the wall here, but that didn't work out. If you've seen galleries of previous expeditions here, you know this used to lead out to a small manhole... |
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...but when I went there this time, there was a lot of construction in the area, something I knew was going on, but not the specifics of it. It just wasn't worth the risk if I was going to exit into a closed (i.e., fenced) construction site, possibly one with security. |
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Eventually we just made our way back to this exit... which was a huge mistake because it was absolutely freezing and really windy. |
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