Drove down to our camping area off the Parks Hwy Wednesday night after work, Tyler decided to stay home and it was a good decision on his part, almost wished I did the same.
It was a nice drive down with some sunshine and low traffic, in short all the summer tourists were already camped for the night and not on the road. So I arrived at mile 171 around 9:00 PM and set up the RV for four days, Dean arrived about an hour later. I was surprised he was a head of his usual midnight arrival time :<)
Some photos of last weekends adventure getting up the last wall and starting on the roof.
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Thursday morning was a bit dismal, cloudy and misty, but not bad. The trail in was a mini creek with water flowing over and along it all the way into the cabin site, if I only knew what was coming. So we started on the front wall and got it framed, raised and set in place. I used a lot of extra glue for the base plate hoping it’d forced the water out and dry well.
We then started on the interior walls so we could work on the loft area. The interior walls went up fairly quick and we quit for the day around 7:00 PM and headed back to camp just in time to meet Jake. Friday morning, more clouds and rain, but we all got in and finished up the interior walls and started hanging the floor joist for the loft. Again a fairly easy and quick job and by day’s end we had the loft’s sub-floor laid down and nailed.
Woke up Saturday morning to a deluge of rain, I mean it was coming down in buckets and didn’t look like it was going to quit. So we hung around camp until 11:00 AM or so and spent the morning complaining about the rain and how little we’d get done. It finally slowed down enough for us to get into the cabin and site and the weather started to turn nice. Some sunshine and not too much rain, a miserable day framing in the gable for the back wall so we could work on placing the roof beam.
We headed back to camp wet and grumpy, would have been a good take for Grumpy Old Men, the Alaska version…
Sunday morning Jake decided to head back to town and if I didn’t have to stay I would have joined him. But Dean and I decided to at least go in and place the first section of the roof beam and try to cover as much of the cabin as possible to protect it from the rain. Well rain wasn’t the problem, about a mile in from the hwy the trail goes above tree line and gives you this gorgeous view of the all the mountains, not bad except the view was of snow covered mountains.
We got to the site and built the beam and placed it and wouldn’t you know it, it wasn’t the rain we had to be concerned with it was snow. Yup, a nice heavy wet snow fall in AUGUST for crying out loud. We placed the beam and covered the cabin as much as possible to protect it from the weather as much as possible. I’m just hoping we get a nice long Indian summer and can at least get the roof on over the cabin and enclose so I can work on the interior over the winter. So cross your fingers for us that September is as warm this year as it has been the past 3. Of course all you hunters (me included on a normal year) are hoping for cool days to fill the freezer.
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