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Cabin Site near Chulitna

So we spent a few days down in the Hurricane area and hauled the last loads of lumber into the cabin site. It was a pretty good weekend actually. We hauled everything Dean and I had loaded on our trailers by dinner time Friday night and then spent a lazy Saturday morning waiting for Jake to arrive with the last trailer load.

He got to our camp around 9:30 AM and we off loaded the trailer so he could head back to town and then spent the rest of the day hauling more loads in. Have to say I’m pretty impressed with the size of the loads we could get on the Siglin sled and with the Bearcat for hauling them, made it much easier to do. All though I didn’t get a picture of it, the largest load we hauled had 18 – 2x6x8’ and 11 – 2x12x16’ boards, that’s a lot of lumber to haul in one load behind a sled.

We hauled all but the last load in Saturday and decided to go for a ride and enjoy some of the day playing instead of working. The videos are of the trail into the cabin site and then our ride from there to Chulitna. It was a great day for riding, sunny and warm, a good spring day. Meet another neighbor on the trail to Otter Lake, nice man and helpful. Seems most all our neighbors are good folks seeing how we meet more of them on this trip then all the others put together. It was good to know most everyone is friendly and willing to be good neighbor, I was kind of worried about that after talking to a few last year. The Vids below of the freight trail to the cabin are broken down into two and half minute sections to easy up on the viewing time. The trail to Chulitna is broken into two nine minutes segments.

Sunday AM Dean and got the last load into the cabin site and then went and did some exploring. We both kept thinking that the west side of the RR Tracks looks pretty inviting and un-explored, so we explored them and glad we did. At first all you see are trees and snow, then after swirving through the trees a for a 100 yards or so it opens up into a hugh field of untouched powder. And not just one field but a dozen or more, we just kept riding and riding, through the trees and another field, ride that for a couple mile, more trees and more fields, it was endless or so it seemed.

Had to head back to camp by 1:30 to load up for the drive back to town, but next time we go down there I plan to explore those fields some more. I didn’t bring along the head cam, but here are some stills I took hauling lumber into the cabin site and of the fields we discovered in the trees west of the RR tracks.

A good end to a productive and enjoyable weekend.