Pretty sure its a typo and meant to say 50ft, which is about 15m or about 2.7m/floor plus another 1.5m extra for the roof for the five story buildings you can see in the pictures.
I didn’t expect to end up reading this whole thing, but I did and really enjoyed it! Love a good old fashioned travelblog without the bs “hacks”, ads, and affiliate links.
Back in the 90s I lived in NYC and took a bicycle trip to Chibougamau, and then another summer rode a motorcycle as far as I could on pavement along the St Lawrence river. Your blog took me right back to those adventures; thanks so much for sharing!
From a bit later in the trip is a photo from the shore of Manicouagan Reservoir. According to Wikipedia [1], it's an annular lake formed about 214 million years ago by the impact of a meteor 5 km in diameter. It has an outer diameter of about 72 km, and it's "the Earth's sixth-largest confirmed impact crater according to rim-to-rim diameter", and one of the oldest known.
Wonderful post. I have a feeling they did something very right by making the interior corridor so wide. I imagine it feel a lot more open. Did the noisy ventilation at least keep it from smelling bad?
It doesn't surprise me that small mining towns have strip clubs. Lots of people temporarily move to work there and are lacking in human comforts of all types.
That looks like an incredible trip!