I remember stumbling around this site a while back but I wasn't really into climbing then. Now I try to go bouldering when I can and buildering occasionally. I actually stumbled back on this page looking for more information on Guy and John whom I read about in a paper in La Mascotte a few weeks ago. I'm sure that I knew John from Res or class and I was trying to figure out where I knew him from. So after procrastinating from my Masters thesis for a few hours last night reading Guy's bio and this forum my buddy thrust and I decided to go do some buildering. We started with the roof of the Forestry Sciences Center which is pretty easy to get to from the top of one of the stair wells. That provided some excellent views of the end of the sunset (thrust is still working on getting the pictures up). Then thrust did the adjacent Center for Advanced Wood processing, I chickened out because there were too many people around and the ascent is more exposed than FSC. Then on the way to the bus we decided to check out the Oceanography dyno problem and the tank mentioned in Guy's bio. We found the Oceanography problem after thrust had blown both the tires on his BMX trying to go up some stairs. Thrust did it without dyno'ing, I couldn't make it up because my back was too stiff from a long hike on the weekend. But I did have fun jumping from the wall on the stairs to the nicely trimmed bouncy bushes next to them.

Thanks for all the useful info here ardarvin.

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  1. ardarvin Reply

    Hey Bforsyth, welcome the the forum. Glad to see someone here from Vancouver, especially UBC. It´s nice to talk about something and have people know what the hell you are referring to :)

    Sounds like you had a fun night buildering. I like the CAWP building. Did your buddy do all the way up… using those 45 degree overhanging wooden beams? I love that part. Do it on a cool night, and then you get to have fun sliding down the metal roof.

    Oceanography rocks eh?! I love that place. I´m actually sitting here in Barcelona wishing that I was at the Oceanography building. Odd. The hard part of the Oceanography Dyno is in actually in DOING the dyno. It´s much easier to static it. I´ve actually only two-handed dynoed it a couple times, I usually chicken out and do it static. Oh, and yes aren´t the bouncy bushes fun? Are they in season? Sometimes they seem a little less bouncy then desired. Try climbing the pillar on the left and jumping from the roof. The pillar on the left is actually a little harder to climb than the one below. I´ve only seen one person try and dyno it, and he failed. He ended up falling between the gap of the bushes and the cement walkway. Sketch :p

    Hey, if you ever find that tank lemme know where it is, I´d like to have a little tank-rowing party in the fall, for friends of Guy.

    -ard :moon:

  2. bforsyth Reply

    both thrust and I have been at UBC for a while, this is my 7th year (stuck around for a masters). I didn't really see how he got to the top of CAWP but I'm assuming that he used the overhanging wooden beams. He climbed up the fence at the delivery entrance and came down by the patio between forestry and cawp.

    Oceanography is pretty fun/scarry. I was worried that the problem was at the oceanography wing attached to the bookstore where they are doing some serious construction. But we found it still intact at the end of what I thought was only the Biology building.

    I walked out on the wall by the stairs and checked out the dead fall move but wussed out. Thrust sucked it up and did it though. The bouncy bushes I'm talking about are the ones to the right of the stairs if you are going down the stairs. Instead of doing the dead fall, jump the other way into the bouncy bushes. You can see what I'm talking about from the pictures below. I'll check out the other bouncy bushes. The ones we were jumping into are nicely trimmed, the other ones looked a little more bouncy.  

    We found the tank, its unlocked and has a really light man hole cover. There are actually two tanks. We even found the 'boat' and rope still attached to it. Some pretty skank water down there though.

    here are some pictures from our buildering night,

    http://gallery.antiflux.org/builder1

    thrust did a pretty crazy move last night in the FSC atrium on the second floor going from some pillars to one of the floating walkways. I think I was too busy spotting him to get a picture of that though.

  3. thrust Reply

    Quote (ardarvin @ July 30 2003,9:29)
    Sounds like you had a fun night buildering. I like the CAWP building. Did your buddy do all the way up… using those 45 degree overhanging wooden beams? I love that part. Do it on a cool night, and then you get to have fun sliding down the metal roof.

    Oceanography rocks eh?! I love that place. I´m actually sitting here in Barcelona wishing that I was at the Oceanography building. Odd. The hard part of the Oceanography Dyno is in actually in DOING the dyno. It´s much easier to static it. I´ve actually only two-handed dynoed it a couple times, I usually chicken out and do it static. Oh, and yes aren´t the bouncy bushes fun? Are they in season? Sometimes they seem a little less bouncy then desired. Try climbing the pillar on the left and jumping from the roof. The pillar on the left is actually a little harder to climb than the one below. I´ve only seen one person try and dyno it, and he failed. He ended up falling between the gap of the bushes and the cement walkway. Sketch :p

    Hey, if you ever find that tank lemme know where it is, I´d like to have a little tank-rowing party in the fall, for friends of Guy.


    I guess this is my introduction as well. I originally started buildering on my house, then high school, then college (cap college in north van, some excellent long routes if I remember correctly) and now out at ubc. now that I think about it, I've probably spent more time on buildings than on rock or in the gym, although I'd never really considered it to be a sport before. mostly buildering was just a way to get to the roof, and if I could just take the stairs I'd do that too. now I appreciate it a bit more for the climbing aspect, although I certainly don't have the balls I used to =).

    in response to your questions: I went up the 45degree overhang beams on cawp, that's really the only tricky bit aside from watching for security at tech3.

    static'd the oceanography dyno problem, I'm still a little freaked out about dyno'ing it but I'll work towards that.

    I think that guy's description of the underground cavern was a bit misleading, from what we could tell from the mouth of the manhole it's a live fish storage facility and not connected to the storm drains at all. but I could be wrong, we need to get a bit more gear together before we can go down and check it out for sure. there are two tanks, one with his boat in it, and one that's completely full of water. both look like they haven't been touched in 15 years. ahh, I love ubc.

  4. Dru Reply

    the "tank" is behind the bookstore in some bushes. i dont think they store fish in it? maybe someone is stocking it for a private fishing pool or are they MUTANT PIRAHNAS???

    there should be a sluice tunnel which runs from the cistern all the way down to wreck beach

    i think you cant open the grate from inside so you need someone down at the beach stationed to let you out or something…it always sounded too sketch to me…vance did it a few times i believe. :O

  5. ardarvin Reply

    Nice photos bforsyth. Were you ever a member of the VOC? Do I know you? Sounds like we were in school around the same time.

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    The bouncy bushes I'm talking about are the ones to the right of the stairs if you are going down the stairs.

    Yup those are the bushes. Look up next time you are around there. You´ll see what I mean. There is another pillar which puts you up on the roof of the entrance way. Jump from there :p

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    i think you cant open the grate from inside so you need someone down at the beach stationed to let you out or something

    Whoa…. sketch factor nine! Oh well, it does sound appealing though…. ripping down a sluice on a crappy raft. Although don´t sluices usually have cement ribs which prevent people from doing such stupid things? I guess Vance is the man to talk to here.

  6. bforsyth Reply

    Those picts are actually courtesy of thrust. but I do like the one of my jumping. I was never in the VOC, just got interested in the climbing and backcountry stuff recently. I do have some friends that were in the VOC. I know Matt Buckle pretty well and I think he was/is pretty involved in the VOC. I'm in computer science and lived in totem from 96-98 and gage from 98-00 so you might know me from one of those places. How about you?

    We checked out the roof top pillar at oceanography yesterday, looks quite a bit more difficult with the extra distance to the top edge than the problem down below. The bouncy bushes look like they are in good condition to jump onto right now.

    I don't know if the tanks behind oceanography go anywhere, they look pretty stagnant. I have heard of the huge screw-type drain from the meuseum of anthropology down to the beach. You can hear the water rushing down it from the heavily locked access cover at the end of the lower parking lot.

  7. thrust Reply

    Quote (Dru @ July 30 2003,6:37)
    the "tank" is behind the bookstore in some bushes. i dont think they store fish in it? maybe someone is stocking it for a private fishing pool or are they MUTANT PIRAHNAS???

    there should be a sluice tunnel which runs from the cistern all the way down to wreck beach

    i think you cant open the grate from inside so you need someone down at the beach stationed to let you out or something…it always sounded too sketch to me…vance did it a few times i believe. :O


    well, it _is the oceanography building so it sorta makes sense to have some fish storage near by. we'll mount a bigger expedition shortly to sort this out for once and for all. I'm certain we found guy's boat, beyond that, I don't know what else is down there.

    where's the grate down at wreck? I've never seen a large runoff outlet above the waterline down there, although I haven't poked about in the bushes too much =P

  9. ardarvin Reply

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    lived in totem from 96-98 and gage from 98-00 so you might know me from one of those places

    Let´s see… I was in Vanier in 95, Totem in 96, Gauge in 97, Fairview in 98, 99…. so nope… I don´t know you from res. I do know Matt Buckle though. Was just thinking of him today in fact… if you see him before he leaves for France or wherever, tell him to give back my piton hammer :angry: Not that I need it or anything, but perhaps one day I will realize my aspirations to become a wall rat.

  10. Dru Reply

    yeah it (the sluice) comes out by the gun tower IIRC. i dont think the boat fits I think you have to go down it feet first. :(  :O scary!

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