indeed1

Highway Drain / Culvert

One-Way Ticket To Back Pain — Active Drain in Kitchener, Ontario

indeed1 1520 views Feb 24, 2024 19 photos

About this album

Went back to an area I'm very familiar with from years and years back. A lot harder to traverse than I remember. Nothing crazy, but a drain with lots of nearby graffiti and small tunnels with lots of photo opportunities.

All shots taken on either:
Canon EOS R10 w/ 18-45mm Kit Lens
OnePlus 10 Pro (2 pictures at the 'back' / junction taken with phone due to it being easier as camera has APS-C cropped sensor)

Photos

The outside area (2)
Watch your step when about to go in. On a decent angle and is not flat in any way whatsoever. Can see the graffiti on the side of the highway at the top.
The outside area (3)
A lower shot of the previous
The outside area (4)
To the right, looking down the creek a bit and seeing more highway-side graffiti
The outside area (5)
To the left of the pipe
The outside area (1)
This is the view across the creek taken from a standstill in front of the pipe (sorry for the flare)
Inside the pipe (1)
Surprisingly, the graffiti stops about halfway through, but there is some at the end
Inside the pipe (2)
Inside the pipe (3)
Inside the pipe (4)
Approaching the end, you can see the 2 paths that go further out
Inside the pipe (5)
This is at the 'back', where it becomes even more tight, something I was not interested in continuing through.
Wall graffiti
Wall graffiti at the 'junction point'
A singular ladder rung
One rung on the ladder. Great.
No ladder
The singular ladder rung can be seen at the bottom of the image. Not sure why they bothered to add that because it doesn't really look like there was ever more than one
Inside the pipe (6)
This was to the right upon reaching the 'back'. It is very tight and leads to what appears to be a room that you could stand up in but requires you to literally crawl through this pipe, something I was not interested in doing.
Inside the pipe (7)
The left pipe from the junction. Some graffiti allegedly from 2009 (& again in 2012?). Can confirm they were both there in 2017, so, I believe them...
Inside the pipe (8)
The right pipe from the junction point.
Inside the pipe (9)
A closer image down the left pipe from the junction point. Looks like there is a room of sorts at the back
Inside the pipe (10)
On the way back, leaving the pipe.
Inside the pipe (11)
No flash. This is about 2/3 of the way back to the entrance from the junction point.

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avatar of Skec.Oner
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1 year ago

is this near the aquaducts in kitchener?

avatar of ishootthings
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1 year ago

The creeks that are buried for development over the years? If not please elaborate😂 I'm intrigued as aqueducts don't exist here in the context I think of them as.

avatar of ishootthings
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1 year ago

somewhere I've got an album of this. At night 4-5 years ago with a kit lens. Walked most of these in the city at one point or another.

avatar of DAExplores
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1 year ago

I've been down this one too, probably a few years earlier than that, there was (is? unsure of the status) a geocache in the first access chamber here. I want to say 2016ish, but I'm not sure. no photos, I remember it being a backbreaker even for a younger me though.

avatar of indeed1
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1 year ago

I'm literally 5'4 and it's even a backbreaker for me so I don't doubt that for a second. Back when I was in high school I used to go here in my early days of getting into 'exploring' but I don't have the pictures anymore so had to go back to retake these lol. Regarding the geocache, I wanna say it's no longer there

avatar of ishootthings
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1 year ago

Even if I found mine, I prolly would not upload them lol. The quality..... It would be a backMURDERER for yah now DAE. I think I've uploaded all (or almost all) the drains that are sizeable to walk thru as I searched for certain measurements. I wish Cambridge had more bigger ones.

avatar of dgvt
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1 year ago

I love me a musty pipe