The Spring mud has turned to Summer dust but that and an extra 30° F, there is not much progress to report. Working hard and getting dirty, working hard, just not much progress. Ugh!!! I did get the cabin footing forms placed, rebar bent and tied together and the end result inspected and approved, Then…. I did it again!!!!!. The…
All of my whining about the cold wet Spring here seems to have paid off. Albeit, a little tentatively, Summer finally arrived with a week of sunshine and temps over 70’s and no humidity. There was even one day of 90+.Whoo Hoo!!!. back to 60’s and seventies, but that works for me. I got the approval of my building permit…
If April showers bring May Flowers, May flowers are probably pretty pissed. They have been stymied by May’s cold wet weather. The people that keep track are reporting that Seattle has recorded its wettest May since 1948. The numbers aren’t official, but at last count, Seattle was within a few drops of hitting 4” of rain in May. Usually the…
If April showers bring May flowers, What does April snow bring? April started out looking like we were going to have a short spring and roll right into summer. The snow had all melted out and the ground dried up enough that I was able to drive into camp two weeks earlier than last year. That is critical to…
Of course the snow drought ended the day I started to head back to Washington. And of course, the snow started falling just as I had the chance to avoid it at the intersection of shortcut and long way around. Of course I took the shortcut over a 7000 foot pass into Idaho’s Bitterroot mountains. If it was good enough…
I headed south from Great Falls to get to my next AirBnB in Dillon, Montana. I took the back roads because I had plenty of time before check-in and I wanted to revisit the historical town of Virginia City, the capital of the Montana Territory back in the 1860’s. When gold was found nearby, the town grew to over 10,000…
New Year’s Eve morning was the end of my month long stay in Powell, Wy. It was also -10F. The car’s battery was not happy about being nudged awake after a month of little use. That feeling of relief that only someone driving an old car while living in the path of arctic winds can understand washed over me as…
The old adage that time flies when you are having fun is not really true. It turns out that time flies regardless. It seems like just yesterday that I rolled into Powell, Wyoming and now its already been a month. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t come across this realization in a fit of misery and boredom. I just can’t…
My third season on the mountain has come to an end. Winter is predicted to be another snowy one but thankfully hadn’t settled in before I left. I was stuck in rainy season since Mid-October. After a storm lasting 3 days, I had 5 inches of water in my rain gauge. There isn’t much to do when it gets like…
It is late November and the road to camp ices over every night now. Only to melt out to a simultaneously slippery and sticky mud by the afternoon. t the risk of being overly dramatic, I have to say it is a difficult effort and a bit unsafe. I know because I have walked it 4 times yesterday and 2…