[81alum]

Talk about thread drift.....

Anybody else explore the tunnels underneath the Quad?  I did it a few times until I hit the section with a "WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE" sign.  Never went down there again.

A group of friends and I tried to explore the steam tunnels.  We heard there were rats in there so we put on heavy hiking boots and carried broomsticks--I suppose we thought we could beat off giant rats.  Stupidly, we galumphed across campus in this macabre gear the night before Big Game looking for an entrance, and were of course reported as possible weanies.  The police officer who stopped us became much nicer when he heard our weird story and realized that we were not C.al students coming to do mischief.  He started telling us a story about how he explored the catacombs up at St. Mary's when he was a student there.  He let us go with a Beat C.al, but we did not try to get into the steam tunnels again.

Later I heard that the steam tunnels had been effectively closed off by the time we were trying to get into them.  Too many students had done too much exploring and liability concerns made facilities lock or seal all the entrances.  So we probably would never have made it.  Those of you who made it in...did you see any giant rats?

Edit: I just discovered a great many pictures people have taken relatively recently exploring the tunnels.  Now I am miffed that I never made it in.  For example:
http://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/stanfor...mtunneling

And see this:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/04/12/pipedreams/

[81alum]

Talk about thread drift.....

Anybody else explore the tunnels underneath the Quad?  I did it a few times until I hit the section with a "WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE" sign.  Never went down there again.

A group of friends and I tried to explore the steam tunnels.  We heard there were rats in there so we put on heavy hiking boots and carried broomsticks--I suppose we thought we could beat off giant rats.  Stupidly, we galumphed across campus in this macabre gear the night before Big Game looking for an entrance, and were of course reported as possible weanies.  The police officer who stopped us became much nicer when he heard our weird story and realized that we were not C.al students coming to do mischief.  He started telling us a story about how he explored the catacombs up at St. Mary's when he was a student there.  He let us go with a Beat C.al, but we did not try to get into the steam tunnels again.

Later I heard that the steam tunnels had been effectively closed off by the time we were trying to get into them.  Too many students had done too much exploring and liability concerns made facilities lock or seal all the entrances.  So we probably would never have made it.  Those of you who made it in...did you see any giant rats?

Edit: I just discovered a great many pictures people have taken relatively recently exploring the tunnels.  Now I am miffed that I never made it in.  For example:
http://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/stanfor...mtunneling

And see this:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/04/12/pipedreams/