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With nothing to do on a Thursday night I decided to travel the
100 or so kilometres to the vacated Pinetree Line radar station
near Sioux Lookout. After conversing with locals in Sioux
Lookout I was able to determine that the base's location was
south of town and in the middle of nowhere. If my past trip's to
remote bases were any indicator, I was going to be looking for a
paved road leading into the bush.
As I sped down the highway I noticed a small paved road leading
into the bush and immediately made my way to it. The
condition of the road quickly deteriorated as the smooth
pavement gave way to a washboard. Passing the rusted gate and
disjointed electrical substation I made my way down the "road"
and eventually onto the base.
There are separate area's to what is left of the base; the bunks
and mess hall area which occupies the west end of the base;
a large clearing where a number of buildings once existed in the
middle and the radar towers on the eastern portion of the base.
While there were a number of buildings left in the western
portion of the base many had been gutted to the bone. There was
one exception though, the western most bunkhouse was occupied by
a family who had bought the base and made it self-sustaining.
With nothing left to explore I traveled up the hill to the radar
towers. While there were a number of buildings remaining all
were stripped bare. The only interesting thing about the
buildings on the hill was the command center/operations room
which still had all of the furniture in its original place.
After taking some landscape pictures atop the radar towers I
headed back to my tent and awaited another work day. |
