Caving

steam tunnels are a means of providing heat to all the buildings on campus from a central steam generator. Look around in the buildings, you should see radiators. It's fairly old. Also, I'm pretty confident the university doesn't want you down there.

Is it just me or does exploring a steam tunnel sound stupid?

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Original post by H_o_p_s Is it just me or does exploring a steam tunnel sound stupid?

it might be out of use. but yeah, I'd stay out of there.

Yeah. Steam sounds like, hot.

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Original post by H_o_p_s Is it just me or does exploring a steam tunnel sound stupid?

Nah, most schools no longer are heated by boiler rooms.

The University of Michigan Ann Arbor has enough tunnels to walk from one end of centeral campus to the other side and most of south campus. There was a proposel to open them up and update them to allow students to walk throughout the campus without going outside, but because the tunnels were basically utility tunnels, it would cost too much to update them to building code.

How big are these tunnels, usually? They're actually big enough to walk through, or are they more like drainage tunnels (maybe a foot in diameter)?

Y yase I often go spelunking in the cave system beneath my university.

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Original post by capn_midnight Also, I'm pretty confident the university doesn't want you down there.

I would think so. UCSD threatened us with explusion if we ever got caught in them.

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Original post by Binomine Quote: Original post by H_o_p_s Is it just me or does exploring a steam tunnel sound stupid? Nah, most schools no longer are heated by boiler rooms. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor has enough tunnels to walk from one end of centeral campus to the other side and most of south campus. There was a proposel to open them up and update them to allow students to walk throughout the campus without going outside, but because the tunnels were basically utility tunnels, it would cost too much to update them to building code.

Those tunnels always have open doors, and I've always wanted to jump down them and, you know, frolick.

Then I realize they are kinda hot.

[Edited by - mittens on October 24, 2005 1:44:01 AM]