February 14, 2011

Tunnel Trip #4 - Agnew to Pamplin

This was one of the more interesting trips we went on in the tunnels. It began as another Agnew run, as the last two were, but we were videotaping the whole thing (video below). When we reached the part where there are two small gates on the left near the floor (around the Pamplin area), we decided to crawl down into this area. You can (almost) see in the video how much of a pain this part of the trip was. We crawled through that small hole, then up and over this large pipe onto a descending slanted low area. It then merged into another tunnel which ended to the left but continued to the right. Crawling around some of these pipes all around us, we continued to the right. Here we saw a small vent out of which you could see the sidewalk between Pamplin and  Burruss - meaning that we were in the crawlspace of Pamplin! There were some paper plates and crumbs down there as if someone had been living there. There was no graffiti though (before us), so we believe we may have been one of the first groups of students to travel this part of the tunnel. The low ceilings were a pain in the ass (my back was so sore the next day), and we eventually got to one part where it would have been difficult to continue on, plus there did not look to be anything interesting in that direction.
As we headed back the way we came, we decided to try something new - come out at Pamplin. This is the grate that you'll see if you are standing right in front of Pamplin, its pretty out in the open, so it was definitely risky. If you listen in the video, when we first opened the grate to look out, there was someone walking nearby. We waited a bit, then made a mad dash out of there, dirty as hell from all the crawling we did. Here are some pictures, and the video of the trip will be below that.