Back in the Saddle

As you can see, 2013 was a thin year for content on this blog.  Our best laid plans in the spring were derailed by a tumultuous family event (RIP CAS) which altered priorities and resulted in us focusing on family and not building and blogging.

Life goes on.  And that was proved true by the overgrowth on the approach trail and property as of this past weekend, sheesh, it is going to be a lot of work before we can even get to work.

The plan at this point is to work on getting access as easy as possible and starting with a large platform and some form of modular structure set.  Could be heterogeneous both in size and building method.  So what starts as the base structure could eventually be a storage unit or the utility module (ie: kitchen, bath, utilities, batteries) with separate sleeping modules later.  We'll see.  

One thing my friend turned me on to which was new to me is Arched Cabins:  http://www.archedcabins.com/ 

Looks pretty cool, I have an info request into them.  The pricing is reasonable: for less than the cost of a Yurt a structure that requires less maintenance, and the setup time is claimed to be modest.

So the bears are out in force, here are some pics from a neighbor's game camera:

Black bears aren't as big or aggressive (on average) as the brown bears out west.