this would have been the cookhouse and mess hole for the burntisland goldmine. >> john lovelace: wellis how that roof possibly kept them dry, 'cause i don't see any tarp or anything. there's probably enough of a slope on there that most of the water drained off. >> john lovelace: what do you think it would have been like to spend the winter in there? >> walt humphries: quite cozy, actually, you know, compared to a tent, or... it was probably quite nice. >> john lovelace: and when you consider the options, because this was during the depression. >> walt humphries: that's right. and a lot of the people were quite happy to be up here, and if you read their letters and their diaries, they quite enjoyed the experience. and the wintertime a lot of them would be out trapping and they had lots of fish and caribou. so it was... they were quite well-off by depression standards. >> john lovelace: so they ate well they worked hard... >> walt humphries: yup. >> john lovelace: and the gold was a plus. >> walt humphries: the gold was a plus, and... some of them were working for themselves, so anythi