4X4in' and exploration.
This weekend was pretty boring untill Sunday. I went to church and met up with this guy I met through my older brother. He's from BC and an overall pretty rad guy. After church we went out for brunch, which was awesome. After lunch the fun begins.
We decided to go four by fouring. And if you're down with the lingo you call it four-byin'. For those city folk who are reading this, four-byin' is basically talking your off-road vehicle (in this case a jeep) then just driving it down bush trails you otherwise wouldn't take your vehicle. So we take off to the outskirts of Yellowknife with the doobie brothers cranked and the top off the jeep. And that's how our adventure beings.
Here we are at the end of a trail. The Jeep isn't going any further and mosquitoes feasting on our bare arms. But getting to that point was fun.
After bombing around the bush for awhile, we decided to head home. On the way, I notice a trail that had been blocked off. I also noticed the frame of an old abandoned mineshaft in the distance. The whole situation reeked of adventure. PLUS we were in 4X4 Jeep. After finding a way around the road block (which was by far the best four-byin' we did all day) we found this:
UH HUH, it's time to explore! We drove around the property for awhile. Most of it was trashed. But ambulance bay was pretty cool.
We also went into this random building and climbed this eerie staircase.
Let me start by saying that I'm not scared of heights, but this was one of the freakiest situations I've ever found myself in. This thing was old, creaky and there were floorboards and hand rails missing all over the place. Here's a view of the building from the top of the stairs.
There were also these little trailers that were once used for living in I believe. They had full bathrooms and little kitchens. A lot of furniture was still left. Most of it was smashed. But I did snap this shot.
We walked around abit more and then went home. All in all. A good day. I wish the DR exploration crew was there.
/dr.
ps. I want to go back and check out the mine shaft.
This weekend was pretty boring untill Sunday. I went to church and met up with this guy I met through my older brother. He's from BC and an overall pretty rad guy. After church we went out for brunch, which was awesome. After lunch the fun begins.
We decided to go four by fouring. And if you're down with the lingo you call it four-byin'. For those city folk who are reading this, four-byin' is basically talking your off-road vehicle (in this case a jeep) then just driving it down bush trails you otherwise wouldn't take your vehicle. So we take off to the outskirts of Yellowknife with the doobie brothers cranked and the top off the jeep. And that's how our adventure beings.
Here we are at the end of a trail. The Jeep isn't going any further and mosquitoes feasting on our bare arms. But getting to that point was fun.
After bombing around the bush for awhile, we decided to head home. On the way, I notice a trail that had been blocked off. I also noticed the frame of an old abandoned mineshaft in the distance. The whole situation reeked of adventure. PLUS we were in 4X4 Jeep. After finding a way around the road block (which was by far the best four-byin' we did all day) we found this:
UH HUH, it's time to explore! We drove around the property for awhile. Most of it was trashed. But ambulance bay was pretty cool.
We also went into this random building and climbed this eerie staircase.
Let me start by saying that I'm not scared of heights, but this was one of the freakiest situations I've ever found myself in. This thing was old, creaky and there were floorboards and hand rails missing all over the place. Here's a view of the building from the top of the stairs.
There were also these little trailers that were once used for living in I believe. They had full bathrooms and little kitchens. A lot of furniture was still left. Most of it was smashed. But I did snap this shot.
We walked around abit more and then went home. All in all. A good day. I wish the DR exploration crew was there./dr.
ps. I want to go back and check out the mine shaft.
posted by /dr. at 1:31 PM
3 Comments:
I can't help but think that these exploration skills that some members of the DR have will come in handy later down the road. I'm thiniking: in 5 years, Iran will nuke us and we'll all live in caves, and our group of 11 will become this band of heroes. Yes.
mine.. that was totally cool, i like adventures.
lisa, i don't live in caves.. i'd adventure us and find some freehold building and move in.
not only was it an abandoned mine shaft... there was also some KE! bomb on the side of it, I like that.. grafitti up in Yellowknife.
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