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submitted 18 hours ago by pedz@lemmy.ca to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

Went to a camping in the Laurentians in Québec (Ste-Agathe) and there were those things near some camp sites. The sites are only accessible by footpaths. No car access. And if you bring a bike, you have to walk it up a hill, so I doubt they are bike racks.

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 28 points 16 hours ago

The concrete isn't discolored like it would be for a grill.

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 6 points 7 hours ago

Maybe everyone else who has ever been there was just as confused as OP, and never realised it's a grill, so it's a grill that just hasn't ever been used.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That and/or its just been very rarely used as a grill.

If its been months or years between sporadic uses... wind and rain could wash away light, non consistently repeated burn marks.

My guess is some construction team at some point had some extra materials laying around, and either got bored and just fucked around and made this, or got very vague instructions for something approximating a grill, and this was 'good enough'.

Assuming this pic is recent... thats a lot of wear and erosion, and vegetative growth on this thing, I'd spitball guess its 60+ years old, it looks roughly similar to some campgrounds I've been at with firepits that were built in like the 1950s or 60s.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

Could it be a grill that hasn't been used in a long time? It really looks like a grill, but I'm confused in that there is an obvious circle-of-rocks firepit clearly visible in the bacground.

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