Stairs descended down into the hill, but it had since flooded and then froze, so I couldn’t go past the entrance. For lack of building materials, they used spent fuel drums filled with dirt as structural elements. A common motif on site.
(You posted this 10 hours ago!? How did I miss it?)
Love to see some more OC here!
So this is on Prince Patrick Island? I can’t imagine how cold it is up there at 76° latitude (not that it looks too cold in your picture).
Yes. I was there as part of the environmental remediation crew, running instruments that were scanning for buried debris. It was August, so it only snowed every third day. I have a lot of photos from that site, including inside the facilities. I will trickle a few out now and again. :)
I have some fairly strong political opinions surrounding the cleanup (demolition) of these sites. I was getting paid as part of the process, but I really wish they’d have chosen to preserve them instead. The difference between a historical site and a contaminated site are really about the political lens you peer at them through. I took so many pictures because it was all coming down.
![[OC] Abandoned Improvised Cold Storage Vault, at Mould Bay High Arctic Research Station, Canada](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ce2791ab-f148-443a-b249-7e91aff511c7.jpeg){kind=link}