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In
mid-May, Slim Jim, Captain Nordic, Danarchy, and I returned to the Stahlmann
Brewery Cellars to see the rest of the system and try to get some better
photos. We donned our waders and took the usual way in, splashing through
over a mile of sewer tunnels. This does not get more fun with repetition.
Trust me. |
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We
did not get the sauna treatment this time, (thank Gug), and we were further
pleased when we discovered that the air in the caves was much better than
it had been, for reasons we were never able to determine (unless the entrance
hole we opened up really made that much of a difference). Danarchy had
brought a tripod, a good camera, and what we dubbed "the sun":
a 3 million candle power light. As a result, he was the only one who got
pictures worth reproducing here in the heavy mists of the Cellars. So,
all of the pictures on this page, with the exception of the last one,
were taken by him. |
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discovered some new shafts, new features, and a lot more slime, roaches,
and rats. It was great. Afterward, we decided to cheat on the way out,
and take a shortcut to the surface, using a manhole cover in a rarely-used
road at around 1:30 in the morning. The metal ladder up to the manhole
was electrified by an old power line that ran down to some lights in that
section of sewer (!?!?!), so we got shocked periodically on our climb
upward. It was kind of funny. |
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Then,
I emerged from the manhole just as a staggering drunk guy wandered over,
and things got funnier. He just kind of stood there, swaying alarmingly,
as four dudes came crawling out of a manhole cover in the middle of the
road, covered in slime and dirt. Then he brandished an unlit cigarette
and asked us for a light. Being nonsmokers coming from a methane kinda
environment, we had none. He stared at us for a few moments and then stumbled
off, muttering angrily about "tunnel rats." I really hope that
he remembered the incident in the morning ... |
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