In the dark I thought I heard somebody call

didn't die while draining.

I'll edit this post with a recap later.

next time, I'm bringing a ladder, for serious.

(and the edit!)

okay. so. Set off around four fifteen in the morning, arrived at the drain entrance (same one as last time) at around four forty-five.

The entryway is really misty, seriously. I don't know if I just didn't notice this last time, but the area was suffused with mist. At any rate, walked right up to the 1600ft marker where I turned back last time. As with last time, the water spread out at this point to cover the entire floor. But this time, I didn't care. So I just walked on through, getting my feet slightly damp, and after twenty-five or so feet the stream receded to cover only the center half of the drain. That made me feel kind of lame.

This time I wasn't really paying attention to the offshoots— there were several of them, most were really short (I'm talking under one hundred feet, in most cases under twenty-five feet) and most (but not all) ended in the same kind of circular vertical drain I described in the last post.

There were a lot of Moose Youth Pluto tags on the walls. Although my favourite was one next to the first circular manhole-size chute in the ceiling of the drain— an arrow pointing to it and the words "don't look up". ...Of course, I had to look up. It actually kind of looked like a straight chute up to ground level, although I honestly have no clue. Depth perception + vertical distances + narrow chute = no clue.

At around... I think it was the 3300ft marker, there was an offshoot drain about twenty-five feet deep, from which a lot of water was pouring down. It was loud enough so that one could hear it from the 1600ft marker, actually. But hey, echoes. Labelled on the left side of the entrance was "upshits creek" and then a name I don't remember.

There's a "almost there (100 yards)" tag on the wall at one point before that, I assume pointing to the 'upshits creek' entrance, although since there's another offshoot like, fifty feet further on that I didn't explore it could be pointing to that, too.

Anyway. Between there and the end of the drain, pretty much the only significant thing was another short offshoot, this one reeking really strongly of metal.

5500ft. End of the drain. There's a circular vertical drain, and this one is big enough so that I can see the top of it without stepping inside (which is good for two reasons, those being 1) I don't know how deep the water inside them is and 2) there's a lot of water coming down inside the entire circumference of the drain. seriously, it's like rain) and it appears to simply be the 'main drain' of another, higher up drain.

In fact, I'm fairly sure all of the circular drains are connections to other, higher up drains. Hence, next time I go back I'll be bringing a ladder.

Tags nearby: "I broke the law. It was fun" & the ubiquitous MOOSE YOUTH PLUTO.

On my way back I went in the 1600ft drain and found my vague suspicions were correct: fifteen-or-so feet in, there's a sleep slope (like, 80 degrees up) and another fifteen-or-so feet past that, there's yet another circular drain. Did not try climbing up the slope; even though it's maybe four feet tall it's still covered in gross brown slime.

Next time I really need to get someone to come with me, because hey, using a ladder means potential for FALLING TO ONE'S DEATH. also: I need to get a folding ladder.