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AKphill
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
| | | | Nike Site Summit. < on 6/5/2008 7:05 AM >
| | | This symbol of the Cold War is the best preserved Nike site in Alaska, and quite possibly one of the last intact sites in the United States. Opened in 1959, Site Summit helped Anchorage sleep a little better at night for 20 years until the base was decommissioned. It was a great honor to explore. Inside the warehouse area.
Huge snow drifts outside of the power station.
Guard station.
Inside the launch bunker.
Missile prepping equipment underneath the bunker.
Launch area overview.
IFC building and radar tower.
The U.S Army welcomes explorers.
Boiler room.
Bathroom.
Cafeteria.
Kitchen.
Main radar tower.
More pictures here: http://www.box.net/shared/ktmqzvgg00
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aaronni
Location: South Puget Sound
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 1 on 6/5/2008 7:17 AM >
| | | Very nice, this beats an automotive graveyard.
never know until you go |
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insainly sound
Location: Bay Area, CA Gender: Female
How'd we get here, and how are we getting out of here?!
| | | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 2 on 6/5/2008 12:45 PM >
| | | Wow that place looks amazing!!! I love that bathroom!
Check out my photo blog! |
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/-/ooligan
Location: Las Vegas area Gender: Male
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 3 on 6/6/2008 1:36 AM >
| | | Yeah, very cool. The Alaskan sites had their own unique design to them, due to the extreme Winter weather. While it's far from being the best-preserved Nike site, it's about the only Alaska site that's mostly intact, and overall, it's in pretty good shape compared to most other Nike sites, partially because it stayed operational until 1979, whereas all others (except some Florida sites) were shut down by 1974 at the latest.
http://www.nikesitesummit.org/ http://www.usarak....ka/Chapter%201.pdf
/-/oolie
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. |
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AKphill
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
| | | | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 4 on 6/9/2008 5:33 AM >
| | | Went back earlier today to finish up the IFC and get some more shots underneath the launch bunkers. I'll put some more pics up soon.
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 5 on 6/9/2008 5:31 PM >
| | | There are a decent amount of Nike sites still intact here in MA. Not nearly as exciting as that one though...
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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galax
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 6 on 6/10/2008 1:20 PM >
| | | just went up the other day, it is still pretty intact, The one in fairbanks is still kinda intact, atleast that ive seen from pictures, its radar towers are open, not nearly as cool as site summit though.
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." |
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eidolon
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 7 on 6/10/2008 8:40 PM >
| | | Posted by galax just went up the other day, it is still pretty intact, The one in fairbanks is still kinda intact, atleast that ive seen from pictures, its radar towers are open, not nearly as cool as site summit though.
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Aren't all the ones in Fairbanks either still on active military land, or privately owned by shotgun wielding backwoods types?
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nohbdy
Gender: Male
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 8 on 6/10/2008 9:09 PM >
| | | very nice set
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galax
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 9 on 6/11/2008 12:21 AM >
| | | Haha, most likely, The one in the photos here is on military land too, its just not in the fenced in part.... Theres always a way in!
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." |
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TomUE
Location: Mukilteo WA. Gender: Male
| | | | | | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 10 on 6/11/2008 11:34 PM >
| | | Oh man!! thats so cool!! At the nike that I visited the place is relatively complete but the buildings are not nearly as well preserved as your site!! Most launchers are flooded with water.. I guess the Alaskan sites had special drains put in to keep them from flooding rather than having the water pumped out. -Tom
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galax
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 11 on 6/13/2008 9:55 AM >
| | | Yeah, us Alaskans are allways better. No matter what we do!!
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." |
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flyguybri
Location: Alaska Gender: Male
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 12 on 6/18/2008 3:56 AM >
| | | Very cool! I had always wanted to check it out when I lived there but never was able to. This site has links to some aerial photos I took several years ago. http://home.att.ne...it/siteSUMMIT.html [last edit 6/18/2008 3:57 AM by flyguybri - edited 1 times]
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP. Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 13 on 6/20/2008 4:13 AM >
| | | Site Bay out at Goose Bay is wide open but half destoyed, it gets used for redneck target shooting (guilty) and paintball a lot. The tunnels under the launch bunkers are kind of sealed but still squeezable, somehow there's an old car down there. You can kind of get into the "tunnels" under the IFC foundation at site point, but they're really just asbestos-filled crawlspaces. The bunkers out there are all part of the disk golf course, and one is a public ski lodge thing. In Fairbanks, Site Love is reportedly bulldozed (we got stuck trying to reach it in the winter with no 4wd), Site Tare's launchers are Army Corps of Engineers storage and the IFC looks gone on aerials. Site Jig is used for gravel pit dynamite storage. Site Peter looks to still have some buildings but is used for training occasionally. Site Mike (Pacman's Revenge) still has the radar towers and the launch bunkers, but the bunker roofs are missing and the tunnels have been welded shut: http://freak.minimanga.com/pacman/ You can drive right up to it, there is (or was) a tiny, easily-missed sign that says something about calling the base beforehand. We actually drove right up to site Peter which was crawling with trucks and guys with guns, one dude gave us this little "one-two-three-get the fuck out" hand sign and we left without further incident.
Turn off the internet and go play outside. http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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aaronni
Location: South Puget Sound
| | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 14 on 12/24/2008 5:14 PM >
| | | Bump. I've been digging through the HABS/HAER site and came across some shots I thought AKphill would like.
http://memory.loc....orage--Anchorage))
never know until you go |
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AKphill
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
| | | | Re: Nike Site Summit. <Reply # 15 on 12/25/2008 10:02 AM >
| | | Cool find. Looks like they were taken a few years back as well.
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