Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?
Utility corridor. Sometimes a "Right of Way".
Depending on where you live, "hydro lines" or "transmission lines" or similar.
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I used the term Hydro line once on Reddit and had a lot of people asking what the hell I was talking about.
Are you Canadian by any chance? It's common in Canada to call electrical utilities "hydro" whether there's water generation or not. In the states they don't do this as much. At least not in my experience.
Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.
I call them that sometimes, but mostly just "power lines."
But what do you call the actual wooden pole that holds the power lines? Like if someone hit the pole how would you describe it?
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Interesting. I haven't heard them called that, even though I'm in a state where most electricity is from hydro, And my state borders Canada.
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Right. Cause we're not looney.
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To me "hydro line" sounds like a weird way to say "water pipe".
Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.
I would call it a hydro corridor.
Electric Avenue
And then we take it higher
motorcycle revs
Electric easement
Right-of-way, right-o'way, utility easement
Liminal.
Electricitrees
Is this a contest for best comment? 🏆
That's a powerline cut.
Electric Avenue. Let's rock down to it.
Power lines.
Utility cut
Strips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don't know if there's a more specific version for those beneath power lines.
An electrical easement.
Down by the power lines
"right of way"
In Swedish it would be called "kraftledningsgata", directly translated to English that means "powerline street", but I already saw a better name for it in the comments "utility corridoor"
🇸🇯 Strømgate - electrics street.
Or "Electric Avenue" as I've taken to calling them.
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The Iron Giant's home
Easement corridor for power lines.
The area where there are always open camping sites in that one national park because no one wants to sleep under the high voltage lines and get cancer.
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I seriously have a fantasy about hiking/backpacking the length of one of these. I wonder if there's a legal way to do that.
I haven't done the full length of one but I've gone pretty far down one before
Basically you just need to figure out who owns the land and depending on that would depend on if you can legally or not
When I did it though I didn't check first because I was basically banking on the fact it was near a national forest so if someone stopped me I'd claim (accurately) that I didn't know it wasn't a part of the national forest. Of course I'm not sure if it is a part of it or not, but if I did get stopped at least I'd know for sure. I didn't get stopped but I did have a nice day out there.
"Land of the free", doesn't have right to roam...
Because it's not needed outside the eastern US. The vast majority of land around me is public and anyone can go out. Right to roam would just give me the right to trample through someone's property when there's plenty of public land to go around it with, which is what right to roam usually entails anyways.
This is genuinely a states issue and not something federal.
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The Dead Zone
Peaceful wooded area with power transmission.
If you put a tent there, I'd call it home.
Make sure it has fiberglass poles or things could get a little tingly.
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It’s that scene from the Shining with the twins, being played by a couple of those giant robots I keep seeing on the hills while driving on I-5
Power cut
High line
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