Events / Trellis Tea Party
When:July 13th, 2008 @ 9:00pm TO July 14th, 2008 @ 12:00am
Where:
Engine Room of Deering Bridge
1660 W Webster, Chicago, IL
Activity:
Climb A Bridge
Enrollment
17/20
Organizer:
Dax Tran-Caffee
Description:
Trellis Tea Party #2
I would like to welcome a most prestigious member of the SF0 community to Chicag0: elected to office by the largest historical margin, DC0 Senator Spidere.
I suggest a second Trellis Tea Party, in the magnificent engine room of the Union-Pacific Deering Bridge at Webster and Ashland.
Thank you to the 14 brave climbers who attended the first Trellis Tea Party. The finger sandwiches and bacon cookies were exquisite! Guidelines for this rendezvous will be similar:
WHAT TO BRING:
* dark clothes (not necessarily ninja black... just not fluorescent green, or white)
* cookies, crumpets, muffins, bacon cookies, other deliciousnesses
* water, tea bags, other beverages
* blankets to lay over the broken glass
* an SLR camera for long exposures
* a death wish (if you intend to climb higher than the engine room)
* a quiet voice
WHAT NOT TO BRING:
* booze & intoxicants (we are not responsible for getting you down, only up)
* other obnoxiousnesses that could get us caught
* loose clothes, slick-bottom shoes, etc.
for ACCESS suggestions, see the first Trellis Tea Party event posting.
TEAM HQ?
This engine room could well become a seasonal CG0 headquarters, with a little housework. If this sounds like a fun challenge, here's what we may need to spruce the place up:
* maps of Chicag0, laminated
* heavy magnets to attach said map to steel girders
* a flag (i might be able to supply this one...)
* anything cross-stitched, crocheted, or latch-hooked that might make this mammoth of rusted steel feel a little bit more like home
* spears, cannon, and anything else that might make this slice of home feel more like a mammoth of rusted steel
note: as a courtesy to future generations, everything that goes up should come back down (especially those couches and mattresses that don't do well in the rain)
also note: anything you plan to bring must be able to be carried on your back
(images courtesy of Ayma Mack)
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i LOVE the idea of making this into a team HQ. i'll try to bring something for this purpose.
does this mean everything must come down? even maps/posters etc?
Well, i suppose if the map is well laminated against the rain, and it is attached in such a way that it's not going to eventually become debris... there's enough of that up there.
and since i do not have an idea of what the interior is like. what are your thoughts on murals?
There's plenty of I-beams that have been tagged on already... Lighting could be trouble (the engine room is pitch black). No real walls to paint on - they all burned up some time ago.
ah so are you telling me to bring a lantern?
i unfortunately do not have access to anything that will laminate, although.. there is schlacking... hmmmm
Lantern maybe. We used a few LED flashlights last time. I worry that a larger light will attract the attention of the people below, who may not like that there are people hanging out in the bridge (though it is far from unusual).
Shellac is wonderful. But it will kill you if you eat it.
OH Definitely. And lucky everyone, I still have some dough from the last batch of bacon cookies in my freezer. If anyone has the graphics for a map I can sneak into work and take care of the laminating, just email them to me.
For those of you that, like myself, have a difficult time either climbing the girder on one side of the bridge (I'm 180 lbs) and/or scaling the six-foot welded steel door on the other (and I'm 5'2") - I have built a five-foot long portable chain ladder that will hook over the top of the steel door. It has a tensile strength of 300 lbs and fits in a plastic grocery bag.
As payment, I will accept hugs, high fives, and bacon cookies. :)
excellent. zer0gee has eliminated all excuses for not coming. i'll see all 68 of you there tonight!
agreed... was a beautiful night for it! and i have all the battle plans, as well as the demands, (and roster), and will work on getting them scanned in.
Ayma/G. I have your tripod. I don't want to give it back... but I suppose I should.
That was incredible! Such a daring HQ, and the view is killer. -Jt
I now have a wound to document, as I seem to have sliced my left buttcheek on the way over the door after climbing the chain ladder. I knew I had caught my skirt on one of the steel points that are meant to keep people from getting over the top edge of the door, but I didn't know until yesterday that I'd actually managed to cut myself.
Keep an eye out for my ass on the praxis! Photos of my butt on the internet are forthcoming. :D
Modified rapture!