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Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Total Likes: 374 likes
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| | | | | Re: Permitted Exploration < Reply # 2 on 1/28/2015 4:56 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've gotten into some incredible places this way, that otherwise would have been impossible. Personally, I usually take the approach of somehow connecting it to a school project, and have had a lot of success with that. But honestly, you don't really have to come up with some elaborate story. Very often, if you just say you're interested in the history of the place, and want to take some photos, you'll get some yes's. Some explorers will say this completely ruins the fun and defeats the purpose of exploring. I whole-heartedly disagree with this, and I've had some incredible experiences with "legit" locations. I would say, hey, if you don't like exploring legit locations, then don't do it!
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| terapr0
Location: Sauga City Gender: Male Total Likes: 341 likes
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| | | | Re: Permitted Exploration < Reply # 4 on 1/28/2015 6:44 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Over the years I've had great luck with getting permission to explore all kinds of interesting places. A lot of these have actually been locations that I'd previously explored WITHOUT permission, but was offered the chance to get inside legitimately, and generally had a much better, far more relaxed time. Literally everything from sewers to industrial plants to abandoned schools and tower cranes. The older I get the more people I seem to know in positions of increasing authority, and I try and use that to my advantage. People I know from highschool are now civil engineers designing condo towers, or construction company foremen, or in marketing and sales for development companies. Glad I didn't burn too many bridges in my past, because most people are usually happy to help out if they can. That being said, getting permission usually only works when you have some connection to someone in authority - walking up and simply asking security to let you inside if almost always going to fail. Climbing out to the end of a tower crane in the middle of the night is pretty damn fun, but it isn't nearly as much fun as riding out to the end on the trolley and having the operator spin around in circles while you take photos I used to work for a huge automotive company and would occasionally get opportunities to explore massive plants they acquired and then shut down. I'd explored this place before on my own, but it was amazing getting permission to drive around inside this 1,000,000sqft plant with a pickup truck. We had the whole day to wander around and they literally told us that everything left inside was garbage and if we wanted to take anything, it was ours. Of course we raided the locker rooms and loaded up on dirty magazines ;D As far as I'm concerned exploring with permission is still exploring, and usually a lot more relaxed and laid back. I'm still venturing into out-of-bounds places, just without the ever-lingering threat of arrest. Some places simply CAN'T be done without permission.
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| relik
Location: 44.26126°,-88.41502° (Appleton, WI) Gender: Male Total Likes: 1082 likes
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| | | | Re: Permitted Exploration < Reply # 7 on 1/29/2015 12:30 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Foremost Farms Dairy was on my list since the beginning of my exploring "career". It was always locked up, minus the door on the roof, which required repelling gear to get to ground floor. A security company made occasional visits every day to check doors and such, to make sure it was always closed up. After years of trying to get in without having to break anything, it was slated for demo. OH NO! One day, while walking around the area and around the fence the demo. crew had set up, i decided to give it a shot and approach the office shack to ask for permission to explore. I expected the worst, but thankfully, i was proved wrong! He was confused to why i'd like to look around the old, rotting building, but he decided to let me have free reign. I just had to (literally) run home (20 or so blocks) to put on long pants and steel toes, but it was worth it. It was a most splendid explore. Another time, we simply called the security office of Hamilton Manufacturing Plant, and the dude was nice enough to schedule a tour for us. That was pretty cool of him, even though he didn't let us have free reign. Oh well. It's torn down now, and access was pretty difficult previously, so i'm glad we at least asked instead of hoping one day it'd be opened up. So yeah, asking for permission is sometimes very worth it. Depends on the situation of course, but you never know when a place is going to get the wrecking ball, so it's worth a shot.
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| ripcity
Location: Portland, OR Gender: Male Total Likes: 25 likes
| | | Re: Permitted Exploration < Reply # 14 on 2/2/2015 4:32 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I think some of the coolest things I've explored have been sort of accidental and with permission. The best one I can think of was an old YMCA building in Bellingham, WA that I did some work at as a summer job. It was converted to apartments at some point, but the downstairs had some relatively untouched areas, including an old pool under some of the floorboards that we found. We were tearing it all apart to make room for more apartments (which was kind of sad), but made a lot of cool discoveries in the process. Lots of things written on the walls, including some "so-and-so was here" marks with dates from the 1920s. I found some old glass marbles and some photos in a bank of lockers we found behind a wall. Others include a long-unused wood and metal shop (including a foundry) in a high school I worked at, and an old Greyhound bus barn in Portland, OR. All were buildings that were mostly still in use, with just one empty area that nobody touched. Because of the limited access, those places have been more intact than anything I'd normally explore.
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| | | Re: Asking for permission to explore? < Reply # 18 on 2/16/2015 5:06 PM > | Reply with Quote
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