This past weekend I returned to
Granite Ghost Town up above Philipsburg, Montana. I had not been there since 2003 (and earlier in 1997) and wondered how much it would have changed. I was unprepared for what I
didn't see. Virtually nothing remained of the structures I had photographed 16 years earlier; the only things standing were brick walls (unstable and off limits) and a few shards of wooden buildings. I did not recognize the place at all. . . .
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| The view from Granite ghost town looking northwest |
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The view from Granite ghost town looking south
Discovery Ski Area in the middle left |
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| The remains of Granite ghost town |
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| The remains of Granite ghost town |
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The Granite stamping mill, 2003
Some of this may be the ruins in the previous photo |
Time and weather take their toll on human construction. Photograph while you may.
