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Fluid Dynamics 101

Post author:Concrete
Post published:September 10, 2010
Post category:Industrial Rochester
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I really needed a success today... Failmeet 2010 lived up to its name in so many epic ways, and it's looking like what was supposed to be my coming out as an explorer is actually about to be my disastrous fall from any semblance of respect. Took yet another temp-ban from UER today, and they gave me an ultimatum of explore somewhere new and quit or get banned. (Yes, you should be just as confused as me, this doesn't seem like a good set of options at all.) So I found a new place in Brockport, and convinced Ian to…

Rico Cave

Post author:Concrete
Post published:September 6, 2010
Post category:Outdoors Rochester Underground
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Does it still count when you can just tell they only met me out of pity? A cool spot but not much of an explore, which is probably the only reason two real explorers could be trusted to take me there. As expected, it wasn't much but awkward, Yield and CuriousGeorge curiously didn't want to be anywhere near me, being far above my level and loath to waste their time on someone so useless, in such a pointless place. I only took one photo worth saving (and experimenting heavily with HDR)

Benson Mines

Post author:Concrete
Post published:July 10, 2010
Post category:Adirondacks Industrial North Country
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Benson's Mines wasn't anything new to me, I'd already been a few times last year, and seen most of the upper complex. But like any good location, it's full of secrets. This time, those secrets included an entire second complex on the other side of "Lake" Benson (the body of water created by the flooded mine). Much more isolated, this lower Benson would have survived in much better condition except for the out buildings being destroyed by fire in 1974. These leftover mine tracks go everywhere around the property, the particularly circular ones still hosting 4-wheeler racing, and the rest…

Apollo 15: Damn the flies!

Post author:Concrete
Post published:June 5, 2010
Post category:Adirondacks Outdoors
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Hiking the Seven Ranges, or Solstice trail, during the height of black fly season... Never Again! A lot more here it was quite the adventure.

The Decline and Fall of Iola

Post author:Concrete
Post published:May 5, 2010
Post category:Institutional Rochester
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A second visit to this place proved more than enough to know why its days are numbered. Iola began its life in 1915 as a tuberculosis sanatorium, occasionally also holding mentally ill children. After TB was cured in the early 60s, Monroe County took the buildings over as offices, using them for veterans' affairs, traffic and corrections among others. Costello & Sons, a Brighton real estate firm known for constructing identical brick doctors' offices, bought the property in 2000 on a 10 year development contract, and is running out of time to tear it down and start work on its…

Undisclosed Location #35

Post author:Concrete
Post published:April 25, 2010
Post category:Industrial Rochester
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A meat packing plant on the west side of Rochester. The underground of it stinks to and through high heaven STILL from all the rotting meat that presumably was left there when the place closed in 199x. You do? I'd like to learn a little bit about it for my files. Crusty, rusty machinery Great gobs of greasy grimy somethings... What an innocuous name for a meat grinder