03:30 and my alarm goes off, been along time since i got up this early after a sabbatical ! I stumble out of bed and my phone beeps, its OMJ saying the meet is delayed and not to rush, brilliant I need all the time there is to get sorted ! I finally leave the house and get a coffee and toasted sandwich and begin the drive to the arranged meet.... 'beep beep' its OMJ again saying the meet may be off but hints at a possible alternative.. 20 minutes later and the meet is indeed cancelled and i divert to Plan B...
Its pissing with rain when I arrive and meet up with Urban X, now wheres OMJ ? oh yeah he went the wrong way and got lost and is now hammering along to meet us (get an iPhone mate).. he finally turns up and we head of to the alternate, its a cold war bunker and radar station which may or may not be there (great first explore back!)..
We approach the site and slip through the fence like SAS operatives (well more like Argos operatives as I got caught on the fence and nearly fell over much to the mirth of OMJ and Urban X) and begin looking for a way in..
30 minutes later after hunting around we are squatting in a sealed up air shaft to avoid the rain with Urban X looking at his map and OMJ saving snails and woodlouse !
We decide to return to a building for last look for a way down and after a flash of genius by me (I moved a wooden board !) we see a long staircase heading down............
Beneath us was an awesome installation, 2 floors of cold war concrete, an old telephone console, wet feet and mutant frogs.....
It was a brilliant explore in great company and I only wish I had taken a flash with me as it was hard to get pictures to do the place justice...
Its pissing with rain when I arrive and meet up with Urban X, now wheres OMJ ? oh yeah he went the wrong way and got lost and is now hammering along to meet us (get an iPhone mate).. he finally turns up and we head of to the alternate, its a cold war bunker and radar station which may or may not be there (great first explore back!)..
We approach the site and slip through the fence like SAS operatives (well more like Argos operatives as I got caught on the fence and nearly fell over much to the mirth of OMJ and Urban X) and begin looking for a way in..
30 minutes later after hunting around we are squatting in a sealed up air shaft to avoid the rain with Urban X looking at his map and OMJ saving snails and woodlouse !
We decide to return to a building for last look for a way down and after a flash of genius by me (I moved a wooden board !) we see a long staircase heading down............
Beneath us was an awesome installation, 2 floors of cold war concrete, an old telephone console, wet feet and mutant frogs.....
It was a brilliant explore in great company and I only wish I had taken a flash with me as it was hard to get pictures to do the place justice...