One thing I like to do at Gopher is imagine the shape of the planned buildings based on the partial structures.
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The rear of the complex shows the more than 100 year old workhouse–still working! I do not know if the tanks are original to the 1901 elevator, but I suspect so.
Wintertime is quiet, except for the planes overhead.
This is the building where the corn mash would be boiled in stainless steel kettles, now gone.
There is a flipped tram car about a third of the way down the cliff.
When I first saw Ogilvie’s from the ground, I promised myself to look back when i found my way into this little pitched outcropping which seemed to have the best view of Thunder Bay I could imagine. It turns out, though, that there is no floor in that section; it is just extended machine access! Oh well. Mount McKay in the background in the last light.
Looking at the headframe for Shaft 3 from the tower for Shaft 1. Below is the roof of the Dry House. It was hard to remind myself that these building have been abandoned longer than I’ve been alive.
From left to right: shaft building, headframe, rock house, hoist house.
The last of four radar domes on the base.
Sliding curtains gave a little privacy to the residents of this room, which looked and felt more medicinal than most of the other multi-patient rooms.