The UP gets a lot of snow, making exploring its old mines a special challenge in the winter. The snow is more than 6 feet deep in this picture, and firm enough to walk on.
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Train-mounted snowplows pushed the snow through the fence and against the old offices.
Spring melt flows down the rusty rock house. In the background is the frame for the shaft.
Sarah below Cascade Park. This space was destroyed when the park flooded.
The Blacksmith Shop (right) was connected to the Bunk House (left) via this narrow walkway. This is likely due to the fire risk in each building. The left building had a cooking stove and furnace for heat and the right building had a small industrial furnace to repair mining equipment. A little walkway would mean that a fire on one side would be easier to fight from the other.
The historic entrance of the mill, alongside the (relatively) new Great Western offices.
From factory to skate park to restaurant. This is in the skate park stage. The buildings to the right are demolished now, and in their place are hockey rinks.
I found a meth lab in this building once. (Yes, I called it in.)
The front of the power plant (right), the distillery itself (center), and the regaling house (left).
The snowflake (?) patterns were hand-laid throughout the hospital. It is possible some or all of these tiles were laid by patients, as it is on record that they were used for simple tasks in the name of occupational therapy.