Back in the summer when Luke and I did our Road Trip across Canada. As we where driving threw southern British Columbia Luke and I made a pit stop off the side of the road to get a lock down on our route threw Albert. At the time we where 45 minutes east of Fernie where Luke and I had snowboarded 2 years prior with our friend Mat Hudson. It was an awesome week of snowboarding and partying.
When Luke and I pulled off the highway we parked by what looked like an abandoned hotel. I got out to stretch my legs and take a look around while Luke pulled out the map to plan the best way threw Alberta, Saskatchewan only on back roads.
As I was walking around the hotel with my camera in hand, I was of course looking for an entrance to take a look inside. After checking the main entrance that was nailed shut I found a stair case on the outside of the building with a little opening in the boarded up door. So I climb up the the second level of the building to crawl threw a small opening in the door with my camera in hand.
I have to say once I got inside the dark house I was pretty spooked. I was tip toeing threw the house when I first entered because I wasn’t sure if someone else was in the building, possibly living/squatting there. As I was walking down the hall the first thing I see around the first corner is a dead body!
Or at least that’s what I thought it was at first glance. After that I was still totally spooked, but I had a grin on my face because it was a pretty funny prank that someone put together. So I continued walking down the hallways of the second level of the house opening doors and peaking in each room to see what remains I could find.
There wasn’t much to find in most of the bed rooms, but I’ll tell you this if you where looking to film a low budget horror movie, this would be a prime location to film one of those chase scenes!
When I walked into some of the bigger rooms, I found a ton of random crap scattered everywhere with little significance to what or who used to live in this building, but it made for some interesting photos.
I eventually made my way down stairs to check out the first level of the building. The first room that I walked into looked like a small restaurant with a bar and tables for customers. It would have been a nice place to stop if you where driving by. Makes you wonder what happened to places like these.
After I checked out the bar, I spotted a door and guess what it was unlocked, so I was able to just walk out. I wish I would have noticed that instead of crawling in threw the second story entrance. As I walked outside I noticed around back a trailer that was all smashed up with a motor home parked beside it, which was also smashed to pieces.
It’s very amazing what you can find if you go looking for it. After the many trips I’ve done searching for abandoned places all over Nova Scotia, and again on this road trip I am always shocked with what can be found if you drive out side of any major city of town. Once I finished documenting what I saw there in Crows Nest I walked back to the car to see what Luke had in store for us on the next leg of our trip.
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