Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Quarry Jumping

I can't remember who was there... perhaps Jimmy, Joe, Pat, Brad, Jared, Andy, Ed, Jeremy?

At some point during a random summer in high school I remember jumping off a platform into the McKinley qaurry and swimming out the island in the middle.  After taking a quick break we swam / crawled through the muck in order to leave.

Does anyone remember doing this?  Earlier in the week I found out Columbus is planning to use this quarry as a reservoir for water treatment by-products... crazy to think how different the area has become.


Here's a bing bird's eye link to the pic / map.

4 comments:

  1. It was you me, Jim and Ed I'm pretty sure. Jim was sinking in the mud, I ran down to help him and was soon about waist deep myself. The mud was a very odd blueish color. The next day I had a very weird bump/rash on my back. I thought it was from something I did when wasted, because Tony Morris had a hotel party the night we swam to the island, but I'm sure it came from the mysterious toxic mud

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  2. What the hell were we thinking?!?!?!?!?! Didn't we jump off some crazy platform... something like 20-30' above the water?

    Those were the days.

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  3. That definitely ranks up there with one of the smartest things we've ever done......

    Remember when were were on the island and 2 random guys came by in a boat? They thought we were pretty crazy too

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  4. I heard about the swimming story but I wasn't there. I've seen barrels and stuff in there - I have no doubt that companies have dumped illegal waste in there. I remember when Gordo jumped off one of those cliffs on a dare - it was in that quarry across the road from the regular one - ballsy as hell.

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