Twenty-three period photos from the 1960s and a capsule history of the creation and decline of the Distant Early Warning Radar Line. Courtesy of the Canadian Center for Architecture.

http://www.cca.qc....everyone-just-left

And here's an ancient 27-minute documentary film, if you're nerdy about these sorts of things. The logistics of building shit in the middle of ball-freezing nowhere are pretty daunting. Planes, ships, barges, air-drops, road-builders, airstrip-builders, helicopters. Of course when it's that much trouble building something so remote, it doesn't get properly cleaned up when its usefulness runs out.

I would have loved to have seen those lunch trays that had been left out for 7 years.

Many of these sites are just now being cleaned up. Would be a kick in the pants to get up to one that is still intact!

Posted by cavemonkey Many of these sites are just now being cleaned up. Would be a kick in the pants to get up to one that is still intact!

Getting there would be a kick in the ass... it be fun to splore these.
Prolly a lot of intact, cool cold war relics.
*uncontrollable drool*

Posted by blackhawk Getting there would be a kick in the ass... it be fun to splore these. Prolly a lot of intact, cool cold war relics. *uncontrollable drool*

I can hook you up with a few pine tree line sties in northern Canada if your ever in the area.

Posted by blackhawk Getting there would be a kick in the ass... it be fun to splore these. Prolly a lot of intact, cool cold war relics. *uncontrollable drool*

Yeah there are a lot of them still sitting around. But of course they are in areas where flying is your only bet LOL.

I would love to get to some of these sites someday. The journey plus the location would be epic.

Posted by cavemonkey Yeah there are a lot of them still sitting around. But of course they are in areas where flying is your only bet LOL. I would love to get to some of these sites someday. The journey plus the location would be epic.

These are some of the Holy Grails of cold war sites.
Best not to think of them unless you have the ways and means to make the jump
Someone need to beat sephdickless there.

I'd be curious to see how much more intact the DEW sites (or even the Mid-Canada sites) are compared to the Pinetree sites. Only ever been to Ramore on the Pinetree line, and it was fairly gutted in terms of any usable/salvageable equipment left behind.

drive as far as you can

hike the rest

it will be epic

Posted by Archer I'd be curious to see how much more intact the DEW sites (or even the Mid-Canada sites) are compared to the Pinetree sites.

There is a pinetree site up in the high arctic that is 100% intact. They brought nothing with them when the site was closed. The outbuildings have suffered a bit but in the admin building there are still stacks of dry documents.

WIurbex and I actually explored one of the radar sites on the main continental US a few months back. Unfortunately, the Air Force apparently took all of the radar equipment and sensitive documents when they left, and time took the rest. Still a cool visit though.

Posted by 2Xplorations drive as far as you can hike the rest it will be epic

I like the way you think. That would be a hell of an adventure.

A couple friends and I visited one of these radar domes last summer. I don't think it qualifies as a "DEW Line" site, since it is a lot farther south, but it was a cool experience regardless.

Posted by MetalAssassin I like the way you think. That would be a hell of an adventure. A couple friends and I visited one of these radar domes last summer. I don't think it qualifies as a "DEW Line" site, since it is a lot farther south, but it was a cool experience regardless. click to view

*drool*

Posted by MetalAssassin I like the way you think. That would be a hell of an adventure. A couple friends and I visited one of these radar domes last summer. I don't think it qualifies as a "DEW Line" site, since it is a lot farther south, but it was a cool experience regardless. click to view

That's an infiltration wet dream right there .

Ive been thwarted by these DoD type installations, AF and munitions facilities by those good fences I don't climb over barbed wire like I could when I was younger but I can find holes where cows have busted through it or dogs have dug under it

Posted by 2Xplorations That's an infiltration wet dream right there . Ive been thwarted by these DoD type installations, AF and munitions facilities by those good fences I don't climb over barbed wire like I could when I was younger but I can find holes where cows have busted through it or dogs have dug under it

Ideal for chainlink fence:

Posted by Samurai Ideal for chainlink fence: 403648.jpg (9 kb, 300x182)

snip snip snip LOL

ok.. this will save time, but makes a shitload of noise: