Urban exploration in Motala

A recent challenge (Challenge #043E Östergötland Top 10) got me to try for some of the harder caches around. At least the popular ones... Of the three I had unlogged, two were 5/5:s and the last one was a high difficulty rating (D4).

One of the 5/5 was Motala Underground which is under old Motala Verkstad. Jakob8h had this as the only one left to log, so when the challenge appeared there was some action... 

It turned out that it was only me and jakob8h going on this trip, so we used jakob8h's geoCar.

The cache place is among the older industrial buildings in Motala. As usual there are quite a lot of water in places like this.

We were prepared for darkness and some water, but did not bring any flexible ladder. It turned out that we did not need any as previous visitors had put some stuff we could use to get up to the next level. But ladder might still be a good idea.

I have no helmet; maybe something to acquire?

Here is the entrance. Looks inviting, does it not?

 After some time we did locate the cache and brought out the cameras to take some shots.

Jakob in action.

 Quite a lot of pipes in here.

Here is the cache container. I think it is my glove that is laying beside it, a glove I forgot in jakob's car. A tradition I have, forgetting stuff during caching.

 With the cache logged it was just getting outside again. The entrance far away looked even more inviting than the entrance here.

So, back outside again, with mission completed.

In all this is a suitable 5/5 for those of you that haven't done any before. This was my first, and I enjoyed it so it got a favorite point from me.

After this, I had two caches more to log before completing the challenge. More on that another time.