I don't know how many of you guys are familiar with this hobby, UrbEx, or Urban Exploration, to give it its full name, but it's seeming to really take off here in the UK, and it's damn fun. If you don't know what it is, it's basically trying to get to places where people would never normally go, that is to say, for example, old-abandoned buildings, or on rooftops. Or as
www.28dayslater.co.uk says:
I personally believe that it is the exploring of abandoned buildings of which the public has forgotten or wish to forget. It also refers to the exploring of the Urban Landscape around you whether it be the Drains below your feet or the Tower Cranes above your head. There is also Infiltration which is the exploring of live or active sites.
What Urban Exploration and Infiltration are all about is learning to appreciate your surroundings and the buildings and structures around you and seeing beauty in places where many people will not. It is also about gaining access to these places in order to document, photograph, film or just explore these places.
Anyway, now you know what it is, I thought I'd show you my first UrbEx venture
Thursday night we climbed the tallest building in my town, Jumbo Water Tower:
This was our view from the top:
That's what we were looking over, the Highstreet.
It was quite a rush, especially when we heard police sirens half way through haha. I'll be moving on to bigger things soon for sure
so does anyone else here do it? dan maybe?