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land and Cabin

Progress in acquiring land in Alaska and building our cabin(s).

Hurricane over Christmas Week

Well after Christmas actually. Trish and I had a nice quite Christmas with just the two of us. Destiny and the baby came over Christmas day for dinner and presents, otherwise we had a quite Day. The day after Christmas I drove down to the cabin near Hurricane, it was a chilly -44 (f) below more »

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Club Rides and Cabin Trip

The weekend before Thanksgivings FST had a planned run from Nordale to Chatanika Lodge. Lots of snow and a decent trail. Stoney was our ride leader and did a good job leading until he delegated that job to me. Actually enjoyed it, breaking fresh snow and making first track. We did get turned around a more »

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Moose Camp and Cabin

It was a great vacation time and as always to short. Started out spending 8 days in Moose camp with some warmer then wanted weather. Actually thought it might be decent hunting season, woke up on Monday the 1st to nice kool temps, too bad it only lasted one day then warmed up again. We more »

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If it don’t kill ya, it makes you stronger

Or so the saying goes. The way this month, August 2013, has gone I’m hoping there’s truth in those words. The septic system is done and all I have left to do is grade the yard so I can seed it next year and get a final photo of the grade to complete my report more »

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Fourth of July, 2013

Fourth of July this year was a no fireworks event due to the extreme dry weather and fires. As of the time of this post the fire has grown to over 79,000 acres and evacuation notices have been issued for residence along the Chena Hot Springs Road area. But of course this is off topic, more »

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April 25-27th at Hurricane

April 2013 and a cold spring it is. I figured I had one more trip into the cabin before all the snow melted and I called it a season for hauling materials in to the cabin before summer started and I could go back in and start to use up some of the materials I’d more »

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The Cabin April 6th, 2013

Took half a day off of work on Friday and loaded up 20 eighty pound bags of Sackrete, the new furnace, water tank and 3 drums of fuels, and a 100 pound tank of propane for hauling into the cabin. The drive down was excellent, blue bird skies and dry roads all the way, couldn’t more »

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We got a roof

Another exciting trip down to the cabin to get the roof on and haul in some materials. Lenny, who helped last Sept framing the 2nd level porch and the roof over the porch came down with me on Nov 23rd, the day after we all got our fill of Turkey  Since it is the more »

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Hunting Camp and Cabin

Some pictures from my time at the Hurricane cabin, a very rainy trip, but we did get a good lick in, just not the roof felt and metal :

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A week at the cabin

So I headed out Saturday, June 30th for a week at the Cabin near Hurricane and had a productive and enjoyable trip even with the rain and mud. Plan was to head in Saturday, make a few runs in with some supplies, a refrigerator, more materials and wait for Dean to come down and help. more »

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