Decided I would post my first expo report.
I visited Mini 10th today with two friends. One of them had never been draining, and the other is a little more experienced than I am. The experienced friend locked his bike up at the start of the bridge on the drain side. I left my bike locked up at the nearby large shopping mall, walked down with my unexperienced friend and met him there
We headed in. On a previous visit only a few days ago I brought my bike inside, running into a girl that was just leaving. We had a quick chat and she claimed she was in CC and that there were other CC people inside. Didn't run into anyone however I'm the most enthusiastic drainer in my lazy friend group and need people to drain with so I wish I got her Instagram or something. I'd go draining everyday but I would never go in a drain alone and since I have friends that don't enjoy it as much as I do it's not an option. On the way in there is an extremely slippery floor with some kind of seaweed visible. I slipped and fell, dropping my bike last time. I learned from my mistake today and walked in cautiously. Apologies for the quality of the photos, using my shitty $200 android phone.
Upon entering about 50 metres in I arrived at the split. Not a traditional split, instead the tunnel kept going straight while a waterfall could be seen in an opening on the right. A friend of mine has told me that there isn't much except a chamber (which I breifly visited last time) and a "tenth" shape if you keep going straight, eventually to a different entrance. Also, I recognised the waterfall on the right straight away as most Mini 10th photos are of some waterfall along that route.
I kept walking to the second waterfall, which was higher than the other one. I'm not sure if it was the second or third waterfall as they were both very similar except for the increase in height the further along you go, however there was another split. The left tunnel (about 200 metres long) takes you to a really cool grill right in the middle of the highway! Didn't photograph it because I was too busy looking around. At the split there was also a guestbook. Need to remember to buy a sharpie. Photo of the second or third waterfall
Kept walking until I got to the next waterfall. This time there was a slit for the water to come through, and you could walk on completly dried cement blocks. Kind of like a train station. Very cool.
At the end of the train station area the tunnel takes a right before continuing on for a while (500 metres+) and a bunch of slides can be found! The first one was particularly steep and wet, so we used the handrail. The rest were mostly dry and were not nearly as steep. Didn't photograph unfortunately
. I've never actually seen slides before so it was a nice suprise.By now 45 minutes had gone by and my friends and I agreed to leave at 4:30, so we had about 15 minutes left. We were about to turn back when I spotted some natural light way ahead. We agreed to turn back once we would reach the light. As we got closer we could see water spilling towards us and I realised that it was another waterfall, perhaps the 5th one today. I think Mini 10th should be called Waterfall Wonderland or Slip'N'Fall. Can anyone direct me to the CEO of naming drains please?
To the left of the waterfall was a crawl pipe with a cable tied to a hook furter down. It was secured and probably has/could be used. I could see some light further ahead. Anyone know what's down there?
View from the top of the fall:
We were tired and short on time so we didn't go further. With my luck lately we may have missed a 10m waterfall or something. What's further ahead? I couldn't find a map from Panic!.
It felt like it only took us 10 minutes to walk back to the first split at the entrance. I wanted to show my unexperienced friend the chamber where the swing used to be however we suddenly smelt paint and I didn't want to meet the local eshay tagger. Descending from the drain, my friend's bike was missing and the lock was snapped. Luckily he wasn't too upset and I promised him we would check Gumtree and Facebook for it in case the thief wanted to resell it. I'm paranoid about where I leave my bike so I was happy that I left it in a high visibility area at the shopping centre.
That's it pretty much. Wondering if anyone has a map of Mini 10th, can share what lay ahead and what I would have discovered if i crawled through the tunnel on the left of the last waterfall.
Cheers!
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