Just thought that maybe I should first give the link to my photobucket site and let you all look at the New pics I took when I was working and Living on and near my mtn BOL / retreat.
I am Not bragging, just sharing some of what I do. Some might even find some helpful info in the following posts and pics, such as the bear board with nails...
Most of these pics might not make sense without captions or much info. But many of you have seen most of my other pics such as the Bunker thread here and some others and the many pics in links on my profile.
So here is the link to my photobucket site.
In the following couple posts I have put up over fifty pics with descriptions telling what is shown.
Some might like to look at these pics in the slideshow view here, if you have a few minutes now or later >> http://s880.photobucket.com/albums/a...summer%202010/
I for one, think these pics are beautiful in full screen and in a slideshow. Some might look ugly but those are some of the Real survival type pics.
I am sure on this good forum some of the people here, who I consider real survivalists, understand more of what I try to do on my mtn retreat than most other people.
My mtn place is not a vacation cabin site, where I simply go to escape stress and the outside world although I do that also. My mtn place does not have a fancy expensive cabin on it like most places do in the Rocky Mountains and I am sure in places all over the USA and other developed countries.
My mtn place is a Survival Retreat and what I built for little money. It is somewhere between a crude and simple dugout or cave and the fanciest bunker around such as a million dollar bunker.
I hate being in debt and I was for 3 years, paying off that land in 1990 and for a year or so a couple other times paying off a vehicle.
I think being in debt is a little like being a slave. I know it is necessary sometimes such as I did to be able to get my land. But I got out of debt as soon as I could.
Anyway, I will now try to fully explain what is in each pic and any questions or comments are welcome.
I will begin by showing the cabin where I worked from the end of July to mid October. This cabin which sets on 10 acres, is owned by a couple who live in Montana but love the mtn area in southern Wyoming.
My mtn place is half a mile down the road from this cabin. This couple said they want to retire and spend possibly months at a time here. They are 50 but maybe they will retire early. I cut down dead trees all around this cabin. And cutting up the trees into logs and stacking them in several large stacks around it. Notice the green chainsaw, ( I have 4 chainsaws but this was the newest one, just bought last May ) and the large stack of firewood which I added much more to later. There is a large firepit, partly shown on the right, to burn the slash from the dead trees.
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Here is one of several stacks of logs about 200 feet from the above cabin. There are 2 stacks of wood behind this stack. It is mostly sub-alpine fir but also some Engelmann Spruce.
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This is the back of the cabin owned by the Montana people. I stacked wood in back of the cabin also. They spent 2 months with a couple other people building this cabin, the summer of 2009.
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Here are the steps that go up to the front door and notice the nails in the board. Before he left the Montana guy put this 3x3 foot plywood board with dozens of nails over the steps. There is also a locked gate at the top. Maybe someday I will ask him if he is a survivalist but they are definitely outdoors people.
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Here is a close up of that board with the nails. The words on this board says _ "Danger Bears Welcome"
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Here is another cabin I worked at off and on this summer which was built by a 75 year old couple about 5 years ago. It is a 3 story cabin with the partially underground garage. This cabin is also at least twice as big as any other cabins up there. And within 2 miles there are more than 20 cabins. Most of them have no bathroom or flush toilet. Some use a port-a-potty or hire it to be taken away and some do like I do and have an outhouse.
This large cabin has 2 bathrooms with 2 showers and one bathtub and 2 flush toilets. And 4 bedrooms and a huge living room with a large dining room and nice large kitchen on the main floor above the garage. The living room and dining room floor is made of the basketball court from the University of Wyoming. The couple are retired from UW. My truck is seen on the dirt road below the cabin.
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Here is the fish pond they built, which is right below this large cabin. There were 100 trout in it a couple years ago but 2 winters of extreme cold and 12 foot snowpack, killed the fish. Each trout cost $6 but I guess they did not mind too much. To some people $600 is like $6 to me. This past July they put in fifty more trout.
Also with the snowmelt from May to July the hillside behind the pond slid into the pond and 3 years ago it was 30 x 60 feet but now is about half that size. I helped build that pond with them 3 years ago. I also feed the trout when they are not up there, which is most of the time. They come up once a month but they did spend 2 weeks up there hunting elk in late October.
Pic of most of the trout below, some are over 2 feet. Mostly rainbow with some brown trout.
They have given me a couple trout dinners and even an elk steak once. It is easy to catch these trout, especially in the morning for they bite at anything that hits the surface of the water.
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Another view of their large cabin possibly people can see the large wood box under their deck which contains their 5,000 watt gas generator. They have 3 solar panels but have not hooked them up yet, since putting them 20 feet up on a dead tree over a year ago. I think maybe they just want people to think they have solar. They are the least expensive solar panels available.
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And showing the outside of their water system. Inside the orange insulated box is the water pump which pumps water about 30 feet and more into their cabin. The water comes right out of the hillside. They said they had the water tested and it is good so they have no water filter. Notice the white pipe for overflow.
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Many many more pics in the next few posts. Only 10,000 characters allowed in one post...
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