The Mount Weather

The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, also known as Mount Weather, The Mountain, or Maunde , is a location featured in the second and third seasons. Mount Weather is a United States military underground bunker and missile silo launch facility located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the eastern United States of America on Earth. It was constructed to house senior US officials in the event of a nuclear war. The Mountain Men are descendants of the original people who took shelter there during the Nuclear Apocalypse. During Season One, it was the intended dropping point for the 100, but they were unable to travel there as the territory belonged to the Woods Clan. Mount Weather is currently inactive due to a self-destruct sequence initiated by Carl Emerson and the Ice Nation. The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (a.k.a. the High Point Special Facility), is a U.S. Government Continuity of Operations facility located in the Blue Ridge Mountains– near Bluemont, Virginia, on the border between Loudoun and Clarke counties– about 40 miles from Washington, D.C. Mount Weather was able to sustain itself using hydroelectric power from Philpott Dam, fresh water from its own underground reservoir, and fresh food from its hydroponic farm. It also served as a preservation of civilization through the U.S. Federal Culture Preservation Initiative.