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Geologist by training, interested in the relationship between wildflowers and geology; enjoy hiking into the subalpine and alpine zones and photography.
I worked there one summer '74. Bunkhouses were on the foundations closest to the camera view and the one with just an end wall. There were board walks between the building with a nice railing that you could hang out at, have a smoke, gaze out to the Sawtooth mountain range across the way or watch the cat operator down in the willows at the placer mine and imagine how they were being eaten alive by the mosquitos down there. The second building with the roof near the parking lot was the most important building on the claim - the kitchen. The portal was way over there to the left I think although it could have been one level down. The other buildings over there would be the dry for our cloths, stores and the mechanics buildings. There were tracks that came out of the portal and went over to the bank back towards the centre of the picture where the trains dumped their loads of waste rock over the side. Not sure where the silver/led/zinc went as I wasn't a trammer on this level.
There used to be stacks of pipe used for airlines piled below the bunkhouses across the parking lot from the board walk eyrie. Miners waiting to go underground before their shift began would be siting around on the piles of timber and rail ties. They would always be keeping an eagle eye out for any ground squirrel that venture into one of the pipes so they could capture it. A quick block at both ends and a tip of the pipe would deliver the rodent into the clutches of the conspirators. Many a ground squirrel wound up being taken underground inside some unsuspecting miner's lunch pail to be re-exposed to the light of ... err well, headlamp actually, where they would leap up out from under the lid and hightail it across the laps of the miners and out the door of the lunch/refuge rooms and back out the tracks to daylight. Many a lunch got trampled in this manner.
Geologist by training, interested in the relationship between wildflowers and geology; enjoy hiking into the subalpine and alpine zones and photography.
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I worked there one summer '74. Bunkhouses were on the foundations closest to the camera view and the one with just an end wall. There were board walks between the building with a nice railing that you could hang out at, have a smoke, gaze out to the Sawtooth mountain range across the way or watch the cat operator down in the willows at the placer mine and imagine how they were being eaten alive by the mosquitos down there. The second building with the roof near the parking lot was the most important building on the claim - the kitchen. The portal was way over there to the left I think although it could have been one level down. The other buildings over there would be the dry for our cloths, stores and the mechanics buildings. There were tracks that came out of the portal and went over to the bank back towards the centre of the picture where the trains dumped their loads of waste rock over the side. Not sure where the silver/led/zinc went as I wasn't a trammer on this level.
There used to be stacks of pipe used for airlines piled below the bunkhouses across the parking lot from the board walk eyrie. Miners waiting to go underground before their shift began would be siting around on the piles of timber and rail ties. They would always be keeping an eagle eye out for any ground squirrel that venture into one of the pipes so they could capture it. A quick block at both ends and a tip of the pipe would deliver the rodent into the clutches of the conspirators. Many a ground squirrel wound up being taken underground inside some unsuspecting miner's lunch pail to be re-exposed to the light of ... err well, headlamp actually, where they would leap up out from under the lid and hightail it across the laps of the miners and out the door of the lunch/refuge rooms and back out the tracks to daylight. Many a lunch got trampled in this manner.
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Say, how did you travel to Wernecke, and was there any people living there? (I guess not :))
Txs for the historic insight.
Beautiful picture, congratulations !
Merci
Thank you. We hiked up into the cirque. The view from there was excellent.
Txs again for the kind words.
Txs for the kind words. It is a beautiful spot and easily accessible.
The White Pass RR is still used between Skagway (Alaska) and Carcross (Yukon). The line is not used between Carcross and Whitehorse.