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 Haller
 
Location: Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
 |  |  | My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
< on 3/11/2011 4:00 PM >
|  | | | Hi, everyone;
I'm new to UER, but not to exploring (or to photography), which are two of my favorite pastimes (see my Flickr profile). I moved to Halifax recently for school and I've started exploring as many nearby ruins as I can - I'm from Alberta where things like ruins and fortresses are trickier to find. My sister and I went to York Redoubt near Halifax about a week ago, and we found a few interesting things.
One of them was a cave just off the coast, at the end of the main trail (and then down a much smaller trail) by the Redoubt. There is a surprisingly intact, well-built high-ceilinged brick room in there, connected to a few tunnels (which were full of 3 inches of water and ice at the time).
The entrance to the cave:
Moria by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Inside, about 30M deep:
Subterranean Fireplace Wider by Herr Haller, on Flickr
We were quite surprised at how intact the roof was, but we were mystified by why this place was constructed (at great cost, I expect), and what that... fireplace thing is? We would appreciate it if anyone had some tidbits of info about who built this place, and why.
The other really strange thing we found is this thing, found while bushwhacking smack in the middle of nowhere south of York Redoubt:
What The...? by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Anyone know what the heck this thing is?
A few other random pictures, from either the first trip or the second:
Altar Darker by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Pretty Colours by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Frozen Hinge by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Stalactites by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Bizarre Icicle by Herr Haller, on Flickr
Urban (and rural) exploration is amazing, and from what I've seen of the site so far I'll like it here. I look forward to meeting some like-minded explorers!
DeviantArt gallery (I am migrating here)
My Flickr profile
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tjsmagic
 
Location: Dartmouth
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 1 on 3/11/2011 4:20 PM >
| | | | Nice pics and welcome.You can find more info on this place in a few of the threads here...york redoubt holds a few old tunnels and batteries all over that place like i said if your looking for more info then u can find it on here or others can help you find a few places in that area which are pretty cool.Hope you enjoy the site and hopefully you and your sister can get to one of our meetings.If you guys are ever up for exploring hit me up and we can arrange a trip around if yas want...again welcome and thanks for sharing great pics!
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nootz
   
Location: Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 2 on 3/11/2011 11:13 PM >
| | | | Great photos, the iced over cave looks fantastic. Do you know where exactly that iron cylinder is? I'd be interested to see it up close. I should be free Sunday to do some UE if you're available to come out. Just message or email me.
Have faith only in those who you trust. And hold who you trust close to you for you have no idea when you will need them most.
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tjsmagic
Location: Dartmouth
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 3 on 3/12/2011 2:30 AM >
| | | | id be interested in seeing it to since its proly an old mine lol
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nootz
Location: Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 4 on 3/12/2011 2:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by tjsmagic
id be interested in seeing it to since its proly an old mine lol
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Nope, ammo storage and range finder for York Shore Battery.
Have faith only in those who you trust. And hold who you trust close to you for you have no idea when you will need them most.
http://nootz101.blogspot.com |
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bulwark
| | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 5 on 3/12/2011 2:40 PM >
|  | | | I wonder if it is a remnant of the Halifax Explosion?
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marsrover
Gender: Male
Exploring is for hipsters!
| | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 6 on 3/12/2011 3:22 PM >
| | | | I think it's a wrecking ball.
So i'm just pokeing around, are you gona do anything about it. |
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Haller
Location: Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 7 on 3/12/2011 4:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by nootz
Great photos, the iced over cave looks fantastic. Do you know where exactly that iron cylinder is? I'd be interested to see it up close. I should be free Sunday to do some UE if you're available to come out. Just message or email me.
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Hi, nootz;
I probably can't make it to anything this Sunday, I've got 3 papers on the go unfortunately. We might be interested another time though, depending on our workloads.
I'm not entirely sure where the object (it was spherical, not cylindrical) because my sister and I stumbled across the object entirely by chance, in some dense, low spruce forest (you had to bend low and scuttle along in the area). If you want to find it, bushwhacking is unavoidable. It had a large hole punched in the left side (from the photo's perspective), about 1.5 inches diameter, and two smaller holes on the right, one of which could have been a bullet-hole.
The area we think it is in is far south-east of the naval engineer's school and across a small road that runs east-west. There is a tiny little building there with glass windows looking south-east over the ocean, all curtains tightly drawn. Behind that building is a small trail (look for the cigarette butts!). After that, we were mostly heading south, south east to try to make for the shoreline but I can't be any more specific than that.
I have a Google Earth .kmz file with a polygon bordering the area we believe it was in. Since I'm not sure how to attach files to posts, I'd be happy to email it to you if you want.
Good luck, I'd be very interested if anyone has anything else to add about this object. I regret not taking a side view but the forest was so dense I was sick of crouching and being scratched up ;-P
[last edit 3/12/2011 4:24 PM by Haller - edited 1 times]
DeviantArt gallery (I am migrating here)
My Flickr profile
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musket boy
Location: Maui
Gender: Male
It smells like your grandpa and your feet stick to the floor
| |  | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 8 on 3/12/2011 4:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by nootz
Posted by tjsmagic
id be interested in seeing it to since its proly an old mine lol
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Nope, ammo storage and range finder for York Shore Battery.
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lol, a mine, not a mine
sweet UER by the way
uering |
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tjsmagic
Location: Dartmouth
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 9 on 3/12/2011 4:43 PM >
| | | | lol exactly what i meant
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Haller
Location: Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 10 on 3/12/2011 4:54 PM >
| | | | Posted by tjsmagic
Nice pics and welcome.You can find more info on this place in a few of the threads here...york redoubt holds a few old tunnels and batteries all over that place like i said if your looking for more info then u can find it on here or others can help you find a few places in that area which are pretty cool.Hope you enjoy the site and hopefully you and your sister can get to one of our meetings.If you guys are ever up for exploring hit me up and we can arrange a trip around if yas want...again welcome and thanks for sharing great pics!
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Thanks for the friendly welcome, tjsmagic and everyone else! My sister and I are just getting into UER, and as I say neither of us are native Nova Scotians (Albertans), so we could certainly use some local knowledge. We'd be interested in getting together with some like-minded people eventually, especially after school settles down a bit over the next several weeks.
We're also really interested in foraging as well as UER - we try to combine foraging for interesting medicinal/edible/etc herbs, plants, and fungi. Anyone else here also interested in combining the two? York Redoubt is interesting because you can do both - UER the fort to heart's content, then cross the road and head into the woods on the other side.
DeviantArt gallery (I am migrating here)
My Flickr profile
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darbycrashin
 
Noble Donor
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Gender: Female
| | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 11 on 3/12/2011 5:38 PM >
| | | | Welcome to the boards and city Haller.
Just a head's up though, the site is UER, the activity is UE... ;)
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tbeckerson
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 13 on 3/12/2011 6:54 PM >
| | | | Welcome to the site. Very nice pics, keep them coming.
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nootz
Location: Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 14 on 3/13/2011 5:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by musket boy
lol, a mine, not a mine
sweet UER by the way
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Ok, my bad. I thought TJ was talking about the cliffside cave, not the spherical object.
Have faith only in those who you trust. And hold who you trust close to you for you have no idea when you will need them most.
http://nootz101.blogspot.com |
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PhotoSeeker
Location: Sudbury
Gender: Male
MikeOnline
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 15 on 3/13/2011 4:04 PM >
| | | | Posted by nootz
Ok, my bad. I thought TJ was talking about the cliffside cave, not the spherical object.
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It's an overworked word.
It's mine.
Let's go into the mine.
Blow that mine!
We need to revise the language.
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tribeachpunk
 
Location: Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 16 on 3/13/2011 5:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by tjsmagic
id be interested in seeing it to since its proly an old mine lol
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The more I look at it the more I think that there's no way that it's a mine at all. No pressure plates, just a few loops. I'm no expert but Google Image searches for harbour mine vs. metal buoy turn up results that seem to back my opinion a little bit.
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The Seeker
Location: Greater Toronto Area
Gender: Male
Time's Person of the Year for 2006
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 17 on 3/13/2011 5:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by tribeachpunk
The more I look at it the more I think that there's no way that it's a mine at all. No pressure plates, just a few loops. I'm no expert but Google Image searches for harbour mine vs. metal buoy turn up results that seem to back my opinion a little bit.
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nootz
Location: Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 18 on 3/13/2011 6:04 PM >
| | | | Posted by tribeachpunk
The more I look at it the more I think that there's no way that it's a mine at all. No pressure plates, just a few loops. I'm no expert but Google Image searches for harbour mine vs. metal buoy turn up results that seem to back my opinion a little bit.
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This is what came up as a harbour mine for me, it was the first picture:
Harbor Mine
Have faith only in those who you trust. And hold who you trust close to you for you have no idea when you will need them most.
http://nootz101.blogspot.com |
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tribeachpunk
Location: Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first UER (York Redoubt, Halifax, NS)
<Reply # 19 on 3/13/2011 9:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by nootz
This is what came up as a harbour mine for me, it was the first picture:
Harbor Mine
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Yeah, I missed that one. Now I don't know.... I still think it's a buoy but wouldn't be surprised to learn it was a mine. Seems odd to find a mine discarded like that, but not unheard of.
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