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“It started as just an idea I shared with my best
friend 2 years ago: Could we ever
BE ABLE
to do the same stuff we see online.”
“The gut feeling.”Exploring will end as something worth every questionable decision, scary encounter, and surreal view. I believe there's an art behind the planning and work that goes into the places we explore. The entrance, all the behind-the-scenes work. The solo missions and the midnight missions. Solo is the most mentally demanding because you get paranoid quickly and have nobody to offer a second opinion to. The self talk and vivid intrusive thoughts are relatable to any rooftopper, urban explorer, etc. The feeling that you're being watched or stalked down corridors and passageways. - Arlo
It was a late Mardi Gras night in New Orleans with nothing better or smarter to do. We just rode bikes around and scaled random roofs we could find around us. At that time I didn’t have a definition or word to describe what I was doing, but I knew I liked it and wanted more. - Arlo
Only the beginning.
Growing up I remember faint memories of passing by broken structures
along the road,
graffiti, heavy machinery and just witnessing everything around me. A decade later I said to myself that whatever I did in New Orleans I wanted to do the same:
To explore that big, new city. Washington, D.C. is my playground and my space to express my mind.
I wouldn’t let anything get in my way.
I wanted to spread the message and commit to something that
would expand my creativity and my curiosity of the world around me.
- Arlo
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