Overgrown Barracks

 So during the great race we stopped an abandoned military base. The original plan was always to drive out and photograph this location but we decided to tie it into the great race. We had decided to document it in the morning as we drove up to it fairly late and were unsure how active it was. Not much is left of this base, it was originally very huge but has now dwindled down to barracks, power plant and a few other buildings. Most of the housing is gone but the remains of the streets are still around. For more information please visit: http://blog.saskurbex.com/2012/06/04/former-prairie-air-force-base/

 

 A couple of the barracks were converted into hog barns

station way

I get restless sitting around my apartment so go for drives once and a while to see what I can find. Lucky for me SaskUrbex also enjoys this so we went out together for a quick drive and found a couple things. With all this snow around its still hard to get to things and flooding is on the way.

sunday snow day

Saskurbex and I decided to go on a quick day trip. The weather was nice, lots of snow on the ground and we had quite a few smaller locations in mind. The trip started out slow due to every single church being locked, which was a disappointment. Apparently no one trusts others in this area. Fortunately for us our luck turned around and we started finding churches we could get into, schools and even a railway station. The trip was definitely a nice way to spend my Sunday.

some highlights:
- finding not one but 2 abandoned railway stations, one of them was not converted
- getting attacked by pigeons
- frozen flooded basements
- interesting lighting
- saskurbex accidentally pulling a door of a church
- thigh high snow (that will teach me to wear ski pants)
- finding an abandoned ski hill
- finding "the pop shoppe" bottles still in original crates

nothing better than knee deep snow

these are the pigeons that lived in the schoolhouse

a wild bunch that couldn't seem to find the way out

just taking a break with the pop shoppe

thank god it is winter and these were frozen