From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Laundry lines
ReplyDeleteRadio/cell tower
Helicopter pad
Flagpole
Clothes line, electrical wires/boxes, TV dishes/antennaes, weather vane
ReplyDeleteBeach chairs, broken glass terrain.
ReplyDeleteRooftop garden, possibly a pool for higher end buildings.
ReplyDeleteRooftop access door (upright)
ReplyDeleteRooftop access door (trapdoor)
Elevator room.
Electrical room.
Cooling tower (for industrial plants mostly).
Hipster beehive
ReplyDeleteCooling shaft
Oh yeah, based on cooling shaft - whatever the proper term is for a shaft that provides daylight into a building (that isn't just a glorified skylight).
ReplyDeleteDyson Logos "Light well"
ReplyDeleteYeah! That. I didn't know those still existed until I almost fell into one.
ReplyDeleteAdd barbed wire to anything to discourage copper scavengers.
ReplyDeleteAnd tufts of metal spines designed to keep birds from perching on em.
ReplyDeletePigeon cages for bird hobbiests
ReplyDeleteCranes for window cleaners -- I see a lot of newer high-rises in Seattle have these permanently installed.
Greenhouse
Beer cans by the beach chairs
ReplyDeleteJohn Aegard if not cranes they may still have the hardware for the window cleaners permanently installed.
ReplyDeleteGargoyles.
ReplyDeleteApiary
ReplyDeleteContainer Garden
2m VSAT dish
HAM radio mast
Celestial Telescope enclosure
Radome
Infinity Pool / hot tub
Swanky rooftop party on recently gentrified building.
ReplyDeleteIllicit Grow Op
Skyclad neopagan gathering
someone's telescope
ReplyDeletepirate radio antenna
squatters
ReplyDelete" And he wasn't alone, he had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof. Bizarre rituals, intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it might actually happen."
ReplyDeleteIf it's over at Brit's Pub: rooftop lawn bowling.
ReplyDeleteAll great. We outpaced my modeling abilities a while ago though.
ReplyDeleteHelipad, random cables (power, communications, guy-wires), and if it's on a parking garage with an open top -- vehicles, elevator foyer, and railings.
ReplyDeleteNeighboring buildings to jump to
ReplyDeleteYeah, one slightly higher than the other would be perfect.
ReplyDeleteIllegal rave
ReplyDeleteHelicopter mid-landing
A building on fire
Rooftop chicken coup
Avant-garde kinetic sculpture garden
Ninjas. Just some ninjas, doing their thing
Ninjas are a given.
ReplyDeleteLarge glass skylight perfectly placed over the dining table of a fancy dinner party below.
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