The Johnston's of North Pole

I figured I needed to do a summary on how we got to where we are and all the trips and work done so far to get a cabin built in the woods.

So back in Jan 2009, my buddy Dean and I decided to check out 5 acres of land east of the Parks Hwy at Mile Marker 169. This was the land advertised for sale that my wife Trish discovered one day and that Dean and I spent a day trying to locate, but could never find the corner markers. Of course it didn’t help that there was 10 feet of snow on the ground the day we tried to locate the property corners. But it did help to convince us to buy the place as a great get a way for riding our snow machines.

It’s the 2nd week of November and we got our first real snowfall, so Tyler and I drove to the cabin to get some work done. Plan was to get the furnace and fuel hauled in and then work on running the electrical wiring for the lights and wall plugs. Sean, Melissa’s boyfriend, or un-husband as she calls him, came down Friday night to help, as he’s an electrician I figured we would make short work of it. But I’m getting ahead of myself here.

Dean and I had scheduled time to head down to the cabin and get the roof on before winter hit it full force and the snow started to fly. We drove down and parked the RV’s in our usual spot near Hurricane Gulch. The first day was spent working on the creek crossing and laying down some more railroad ties to keep the trail in usable condition. Not an easy job with all the rain we had this summer. I think I’m going to name it the BO crossing.