an asylum! a groundhog!

I know what your thinking, what does a groundhog have to do with urban exploration? Well let me tell you.. I recently went on a trip with saskurbex and we decided to stop and photograph what used to be an asylum. Many beautiful buildings, some used, some not we had to photograph this piece of history. While driving around the grounds I saw something jumping across the lawn, it was the size of a small dog but look more like a squirrel from the distance. After parking the car I walked over to it.. and indeed it was a groundhog. I have never seen one in the wild and one living on the ground of an old asylum was definitely interesting. So here he is.. and a picture of the building.

 

 

 Photographs taken by SaskUrbex

Great Race 2012

We participated in what is known as the "Great Race". It's where teams form and compete in a scavenger hunt including tasks that relate to Urban Exploration. This all takes place on a website known as Deggi5. We participated in this race last year and decided we would participate again this year. Usually we just plan a trip on the may long weekend, and it usually corresponds with the great race so we participate. Although this year we lost a team member and spent half the race sleeping but we did alright and did complete many tasks - considering the task list favors those in the states. I participated of course with Saskurbex and we did not have a team name but our sign name was "paranormal prairie pirate"- which i assume was given to us because last year we were the prairie pirates.

Here are a couple pictures from tasks on the list...

 Picture of Weyburn Mental, I am pointing to where we are a standing in relation to the map as Weyburn Mental is now demolished, but it was a beautiful Kirkbride style asylum.

Christmas decorations - you may recognize them from my annual Christmas post

Doing the YMCA on an abandoned toilet... Not the most enjoyable thing in a pitch black abandoned bathroom in an abandoned town hall

  

Trying to light paint a sign and an abandoned church all at once.

Our camera collection in an abandoned church - still missing a few camera's though.