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Hangar Daylight Mish by asphyxiac

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:33:30 +0000

Covert_one and I decided to take an ANZAC weekend drive to see if we could ninja the Maltworks during daylight hours. We were keen to see how it had changed since the last time we were there…

Our favourite change was that the door to the hangar was now half a meter open, so that’s where we ended up spending the entirety of our time.

We got to see the plane close up, along with a big truck, a forklift, and several old cars – all with smashed windscreens or completley missing engines. There’s a whole lot of random stuff in there – documents, reciept books, a fuck-tonne of empty vinegar bottles and stacks upon stacks of generic boxes of stuff. Our favourite find was the reels of thousands of malt vinegar stickers.

Apparently I didn’t understand Covert_one’s camera too well, so some photos are a bit blurry…

Anyway if you’ve been to the Maltworks, but not inside the hangar – now is a good/dirt easy time to try it, and you’ll be glad you did!

Team: Covert_one and Asphyxiac

A Saturday night, a crap camera, and a whole lot of stairs by asphyxiac

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:13:33 +0000

We’ve been keeping an eye on that big new building under construction on Gloucester st in town. It was a quiet Saturday night, but there was still a whole bunch of drunk people attracting a whole lot of attention to themselves…

After a perimeter scout we found this tiny gap between the building and another existing building, perhaps less than 2 feet wide. 20 meters later we decided to Lara-Croft it up the gap to climb on to the first story, remaining invisible from the street.

The building itself is huge. It’s pretty much what you would expect – a whole bunch of random tools, machines, first aid kits, buckets of paint, etc.

The building itself is perhaps the tallest in Christchurch now? From the top the only building we noticed that seemed to rival it was the Grand Chancellor hotel. There was at least 20 stories, the level numbers were painted on the central metal supports.

Some levels were only just starting construction, with no restraints off the edge of the building. Some levels however were much more complete, with walls, painted hallways, doors and bathrooms.

The photos we got were terrible quality, but no doubt we’ll go back and get some more during daylight or at least with a better (non-cellphone) camera. Hopefully you get the idea. This place is just worth the urbex if even only for the view.

Team: asphyxiac, smitty, johnny

Culvert Running by p0stal_b0b

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:36:38 +0000

Matt & I jumped a fence & walked down an access ramp into the culverts, on the west side of Target Rd. With a bit of rain the day before, I was surprised to see only about 1cm of water flowing over the concrete. Heading east, we walked for about 120m in the open air, until the culvert went underground, & followed it in. The entrance was marked by graffiti & tagging, which continues most of the way through. Some guy calling himself “Dwell” seems to have been up a few of the feeder pipes off the Boulevard, & has tagged the entrances. The tunnel turns a sharp corner to the right, then continues until it hits an intersection with the inlet from the holding lake by Denny’s in Wairau park. Standing at the intersection, you can look out over the lake & see Denny’s & the furniture stores by Hoyts. The tunnel, which was previously about 1.8m high by 2.5 wide, then becomes 2m high, & about 4m wide. I could drive an SUV through here, I swear it. We then countinued along the tunnel for a few hundred metres, until we found an eel, swimming in about an inch of water. What the poor bugger was looking for, I’ve no idea, but he didn’t seem to like the lights much. After another couple hundred metres, with a couple of explorable pipes off either side, the tunnel ended in the drainage ponds by Harvey Normans, right alongside the Wairau Rd offramp. I would’ve been up along the pipes off the Boulevard, but Matt had no decent waterproof boots, & his feet were getting soggy & cold. Newbie. :) We climbed up the bank & walked back to our entry point, then climbed back in & went the other way. This way went past a residential area, turned back through the industrial zone, under a small bridge, & then eventually underground for about 20m, ending in a wall with 2 pipes joining the culvert. We chose the left pipe, which was about chest high, & went up it for another hundred metres or so, until we hit an intersection with a smaller pipe. There was a small shaft & a manhole in the intersection, so I climbed up, & popped the cover, & we came out on a lawn infront of the new office block on Ellice Rd. A pretty easy stroll all up, but still a good time.

Serious drain exploring in Wellington by trioxide

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:30:32 +0000

Not for the un-experienced drain explorer.

With the help of Mike, we managed to get into this. As per the new Sydney Cave Clan known.doc entry:
Name: Nui Manga
Other Names: Wai-Mapihi, Aro Stream
Type: Drain
Suburb: Aro Valley
Description: Massive 2-2.1m RCP running under Aro Valley and Te Aro, Wellington. Upgraded as part of the Wellington Bypass
Features: Massive RCP running under Wellington, numerous twists, turns, manhole shafts, small waterfalls.
Access: Manhole in footpath near public toilets on northern side of Aro Rd, at Aro Park, Aro Valley,
Wellington. Manhole is decorated and labeled “Storm Water”. [GPS:-41.295305,174.768196]
Care: NZ is subject to serious flooding.
Wet: Dry – Ankle
Condition: Excellent
History: This drain began it’s life in 1926 when the Aro Stream which flowed down Epuni Street and into Aro Street was confined to a drain. Repeated flooding of the area and Wellington CBD and the upgrade of the Wellington bypass began the upgrade of the tunnel from a oviform brick to 2m RCP .
To Do: Continue past Taranaki St. This should join the new Wellington Stormwater Main which is even bigger. I could not continue due to uncertain weather. Pop more manholes further downstream.
Notes: Nui Manga is Māori for “Big Stream”.
Rating: 7-Very Good
Listed: 2008 Trioxide
Updated: 19/04/2008

Nice obs. point by trioxide

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:21:38 +0000

With some time to burn in Wellington, I drove out to this place. Nice view of the airport and passing aircraft. Also a nice example of a cool WW2 obs point. Apparently there is some underground stuff near here, but with limited time I couldn’t find it.

Fort Ballance exploration by trioxide

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:06:14 +0000

Having a day or so in Wellington I went to check this thing out. It’s a really nice example of a WW2 fort. Multiple gun circles, stair cases, ladders and some underground sections.

Todo: For the most hardcore explorers there is a second underground section which seems sealed by a concrete slab. An unfortunate addition which could be removed with some hard work.

tokes mish by evilginga

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:38:17 +0000

went for a cruse threw and took these pics with dinostion it was kick ass theres heapsa underground tunnels an every bilding has a ’’entry point’’ well worth a look.

no ones vault. by fisticuff

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:41:45 +0000

I remember hearing about this mysterious house a few years ago from a local man, although no address or description was given. Then, a couple of months ago, it appeared in the newspaper, which mentioned the street name and the fact that the house now lay abandoned as authorities searched for the owners. Also mentioned was the fact that the top floor had been burned – made it kinda easy to spot!

After visiting a site up the road for work, I stopped in and had a nosey, I only had the work (crappy) camera on me at the time – excuse the quality would ya?

The guts is: A large (80 square foot) vault was built into the side of the hill in the farmland of Naenae, Wellington in the 1940s. A house was then built around the vault to conceal it. The country’s money reserves were held in the vault while the government became paranoid of Japanese invasion in an attempt to keep it from them. The house was later sold to private owners, and sold twice more, before being left abandoned – ripe pickings for vandalism and squatters. Inside, the fridge, stove, telly and lots of other comforts still remain, although all have now been upturned and trashed. The entire top floor is burnt.

Incidently, if anyones looking for a ‘doer-upper’ or a well used first home, this place is for sale.

(yes, it’s still locked)

Bad Times by anonymous

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:40:24 +0000

Well we walked around this place after failing The Feltex factory, it was about 1am and we tried a heapa property invasions to get into the womens hospital untill we found a fence or intersection that got us in so we had a look round saw a light on in a building so we left. about 20mins later we tought we would tri and get there by going over fences in an apartment complex, well, there were about 10 identical courtyards with head hight concrete fences after the 1st one which i managege to make the most noise posible I started getting jittery and in the seccond yard I heard the sound of mettl blinds being parted, I turned and saw eyes. Now this is my least proud moment, I whisper/screamed that someone saw us and to run! Bad idea we all started to vault fences tripple time waking people in multiple appartments, in the end I jumped the side fence into the hospital and backtracked to the road where I waited for my mates, They had stopped in a courtyard thinking that i was full of shit and no one was watching us. This thought was demolished when an old lady opened her blinds and stood at the window looking at them, they were out of there and ran straight past me, we bolted and drove home. Women hospital = not for noobs like us

Urban Ex Noobs by anonymous

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:18:42 +0000

me and my 3 amegoes discovered urban ex and desided feltex would be a good starting spot so armed with a bag of tricks and our noobish confidence we walked the parrimeter and then through the middle. The brains of our outfit had looked at photos and decided we would get on the roof via a tree climb. All went well we walked around a bit and were in the act of trieing to find a spot to secure our rope (Courtecy of the bag of tricks) when some headlights pulled up into the front area we of course hid and there was no way they could see us… until the brains stood up to see what was happening luckily the guy in the car was to busy entering a 5 didget pin into a key pad then havn a quick loook round the inner courtyard. after that we got skittish and went to leave. As we neared the end of the roof a few cars pulled up and people started walking round comunity watch is what we figgured so after a 20 minute lie down on the aspestos roof we jumped down and ran down the tree line. We then realised there wasnt anyone there anymore lol. oh and ust wondering did anyone else go to feltex April 10th about 11.30 cuz as we were leaving 3 or so girls ran into the feltex front courtyard, we would have followed them but our brains saw a fat man and ran so although me and my mate wanted to carry on we had to follow dammit. v unexiting for anyone else but us noobs had an awsome time – next step was the hospital haha good times

feltex again by raptor

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:12:56 +0000

i stumbled across this site the other week and thought urban exploration looked pretty interesting, so we decided to test the waters. feltex seemed like a safe enough bet for 3 urbex virgins and the photos from previous experiences made it seem like a pretty interesting place. getting in wasn’t a hassle, did a quick walk around the perimeter checking for entrances and signs of life, all was good so with the shasta beast leading we popped our cherry, hawkeye injuring himself in the process. pretty skitterish at first, there was a bunch of weird noises on the roof that sounded like people walking around, but we scouted a secondary escape route and began to explore properly. pretty interesting place, huge amount of rooms, machinery, pipes and other stuff. overall pretty fucking cool, unfortunately the camera i was using sucked ass, so a lot of my photos didn’t come out great.

Seaview by rob

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:13:50 +0000

Tangy bought a BJ40 landcruiser from some joker up in Motueka, after about 4hrs of planning we had our tickets and were on a plane flying to Nelson airport.

We had planned on doing a double-banger and going to check out Ngawhatu Psychiatric in Stoke but unfortunately the ‘cruiser needed a spot of maintenance before she was ready for the trip. As usual the repairs wound up taking more time than we expected so we decided just to push for the west-coast and the rumoured asylum that was somewhere in Hokitika.

Found the place almost immediately upon arriving, its on the northern outskirts of town – look for a wee stormwater ditch thats called ‘Seaview Creek’ then turn in from the coast the first chance you get and you should find it without too much trouble.

Place is VERY active, with what I’m starting to think is the norm for abandoned mental asylums in NZ: people living in the old buildings. That said, there is still a large number of buildings that are uninhabited, some in better condition that others.

The campus is pretty large, almost like a small village; with roads, footpaths and random lampposts sprouting out of the marshy ground in the areas where the venerable west-coast bush has begun to reclaim the property.

I’m pretty sure our arrival was of significant interest to the locals: it seemed as though there was a WHOLE heap of traffic soon after we turned up and starting looking around, with the same cars doing laps around the roads and a number of people slowing down to gawk at us.

Undeterred by the vigilante security force, we began poking around the place, starting with a walk around the property, trying to get an idea of which buildings were what etc. The secure ward, which had a small yard surrounded by a 10ft-high inwards-facing fence attached to it, looked like it was in the process of being cleaned and restored, which sucked cos I was hanging out for some padded room action :(

We levelled our sights upon the Weka ‘Villa’ that is situated towards the rear of the campus – it looked suitably derelict with the odd broken and boarded up window, flaking paint and the other usual signs of building neglect. We parked the truck out of sight around the back of the building and went for a look around. Inside was pretty cool as there is a fair bit of old equipment left lying around (but no electroshock machines D:), however it was bloody stressful as the locals persisted in driving around the roads outside, making us very conscious of being seen in the windows and of the noise we were making as we explored the place. At one stage I heard a vehicle pull up fast outside around the back of the building, right by where we’d stashed the truck; the door opened, someone jumped out and the door was slammed violently – I thought we were in for it.

We moved as quickly and quietly as we could to the other side of the building and sat tight, silently shitting our pants. After a wee bit we decided that if whoever was outside intended on coming into the building, they would have done so by now; I went back and snapped a shot of some bathtubs and then we high-tailed it out of there. Once outside we noticed that there was a guy in a ute parked right up next to the building, just sitting there. We snuck around the back and got into our truck without him seeing us then casually drove past him and gave him a wave, to which he responded with a small nod and a steely gaze. We got the impression we weren’t welcome.

The other building we saw the inside of was 2-storied and looked out over the sea, which made it pretty cool to walk around in despite it having a lot more holes in it than the Weka Villa and being pretty much devoid of equipment.

Just as we were leaving we had a quick look at the largest boiler building and realised that this place has full-on walkable steam tunnels! By this time we’d spent about 5hrs looking around the campus and were getting the feeling that we’d very much outstayed our welcome, also we only had 1 torch and the light was quickly fading. We made the hard decision to pass over the tunnels this time, jumped in the truck and made tracks for the Punakaiki pub where cold Monteiths were enjoyed until closing :D

Our First Urbex by covert_one

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:34:17 +0000

lol, just found these photos in one of my random folders of shit. This was our very first stealth mission. we were so scared we got smashed on straight vodka before we went in lol. pretty cool, scary as it was like 2am in the morning and had a big walk there and back. Me, Reaper, Oost, Smitty-D and cuntface all went in. Cuntface thought it was a good idea to try and get caught by the security guard (don’t ask, i still don’t know). didn’t take photos of the night mission, but we went and took photos of the outside during day. all exterior shots

Abandoned Factory City by orchidsuicide

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:29:34 +0000

Down Hugo Johnston drive in Mt Wellington, near Sylvia Park. Piggy accidently found these by taking a wrong turn off, at the very end behind a new factory. Heaps of them, along with a little abandonded house. Has like a rail way track going right through. No idea what they were used for, but theres an inside outdoor area that had a big sign aying Youth Training Centre.

Really dodgey because its gluesniffing-gangstaville. Driven up to them heaps but always been dodgey cats around, and one time even a fire in one of the freights.

Heaps of abandoned trucks and tractors.

Stopped on the way from east to west because it looked like there were no bums or anything around, snapped a few before we saw two geezers that I think saw me , so we gapped. =)

Graffiti, Long Tunnel by machete

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:15:21 +0000

At the end of the street is a scummy little storm-water creek, which pretty much runs underground for probably… Maybe 800? Its hard to tell.

Since I first went there the walls at the entrance and exit have been covered in graffiti, but its mostly good quality stuff.

Most of the tunnel is PITCH BLACK , but its safe to walk down without a torch- nothing to bang your head on or anything. I highly reccommend you do try this, especially if its your first time there, its incredible feeling, absolute darkness- you keep expecting to walk into something but there is nothing there, and your brain spazzes out…

There is ONE offshoot- a little ladder inset in the wall, which goes up to a platform/small concrete pipe… That pipe is big enough to easily crawl down and you can just manage to turn around within it, but its kinda small.

That leads to a natural rock chamber, another pipe, (with manhole above thats easy to miss)another natural rock chamber, another pipe… and thats as far as ive been, and im not sure there is much more, it was getting damper and dirtier and I was alone at least 15minutes from fresh air so i turned around.

Ill post up more photos soon, this is all i have right now.

Its a fun tunnel, i like walking with music in my ears to complete the sensory deprivation during the long parts of the main tunnel :)Added bonus of a graffiti art gallery at either end.

Solo ninja by tangy

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:26:17 +0000

Was around this area and decided to check it out. Had a real old map that showed every building / road that used to exist starting from montebello Ave. From montebello all the way down Sunningdale Drive Buidlings are no longer standing. Even after sunningdale drive ends you can still stay on the road, as you can see on googlemaps lots of buildings used to be here. recently they have been demolished. The road is lined with hundreds of palm trees, and is located in a nice quite valley. Where montebello ave ends on the maps it continues for ages, some buildings still stand. Would be good to walk further around, didnt have time. This place is still used for something, i have no idea what. The pool has fresh water and power to it, a nice new bbq area has been added to the pool complex. Random people were walking around with backpacks on. Alot of old people were driving up and down in cars. with the gates closed at both ends. Was strange. I left due to People walking around. Would be interesting to walk a little further around where the more secure units used to be. Dont go Maori styles with no shoes. And possibly explore with another ninja. Id go to this location soon before the lot gets the smack down.

Misc Other Shots Of Water Towers. by covert_one

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:42:32 +0000

Took these pix on my phone when i was up there by myself once, with out the yelling and BB wars lol. Not the best pictures. not much interesting stuff up there, but it’s an ok place if your hard up for good places to ninja into.

Water Towers 06' by reaper

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:44:44 +0000

For varieties sake I added this.

Piece of piss to get into the compound, just a matter of jumping a busted fence, even getting on top of the towers isn’t much of a challenge for uber-pro-super-stealth-ninja-masters or a cunt with a rope.

These dated photos are from when my dickhead mates and I went in there making a fuck tonne of noise shooting up each other with bb guns a couple of years ago. It didn’t really occur to me that I was trespassing, we were there solely for the bb war, that is why the images feature my mates mostly, not the towers.

Still not a bad view from the top.

Early 2007 covert_one and I went back there and observed some minor construction activity. The towers, however and the means of access are virtually unchanged from the ones pictures. I found a Mercator knife at the site too. Always a bonus when you acquire a little loot.

Squatter's Farmhouse by reaper

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:07:28 +0000

Me and my younger brother where enjoying a casual bike ride on a hot Brisbane afternoon, down an overgrown cow track when we came across this house which was concealed by shrubbery.

Upon closer inspection it appeared that the house windows and doors had been removed or destroyed and what was left of the contents of the house had been strewn across the floor which is carpeted in bird shit.

The photos where snapped of my cell and don’t do justice, however photos never usually do.

Crane by rob

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:12:37 +0000

Climbed up this crane the other night – had really hoped to get right to the top but theres a locked gate thats maybe 2/3s of the way up that stops you going any higher. If you were really fucking keen you could bridge across from the crane structure onto the open floor of the half-constructed building.

Almost ran into the garbage man coming back down.