Hare, of course were everywhere, along with red squirrel. We got some light flurries this past week, which whitened the scene a bit, and provided for some interesting tracks to try to identify. Fire's lit, burning pretty clean for a simple barrel stove. Should be enough for next weekend's overnight stay out with my daughter.Ĭabin as I leave. Felled and bucked a pair of standing dead spruces, one about 4" and one closer to 7", then bucked them with the bow saw. Due to a shortage at home, I'm using pre-shredded tex-mex cheese mix, but it goes well enough.īread fried in bacon fat's a wonderful thing.įeeding accomplished, I set to work. Soon the good smells were emanating.īacon cooked, sipping my coffee, I made up a pair of cheese/bacon sammies for the pan, and fried them up. Stove fired, I boiled some water for coffee (boil first, ya know, safety and all), filled the perk and set a pan of bacon on. Takes the cabin a couple hours to *feel* warm, however, alot of cold soaks into those logs. But 10 minutes after striking the light, it's warming nicely. Often in winter, even the birchbark is hard to light here, as it's commonly ice-soaked. It's easier now, as we maintain a supply of dry kindling and birchbark in the shelter. Got to the camp a bit after noon, and set about firing the stove. Walked out at about 11:30, bacon, bread, cheese, coffee and the like in my pack, just me, alone. Spent some time on Saturday at the cabin. The best part might have been while crossing our back yard stream, my daughter had written "I (heart) Daddy" in the ice pellets on the stream in our back yard. The cabin as we left, in a light snow shower. We'd promised the families we'd be home 'round lunchtime, and were good to our word, arriving at 12:20. We cut some firewood to ensure the next time we visited we had dry wood at least to start, then packed up for the hike home. Finally, I fed the stove at 6:30, and we were up at 8.īreakfast was a mess of sausages and scrambled eggs, very, very nice. Awoke to feed the stove at 2:30, again at 3:30 when neighbour's air mattress failed (we'd brought a spare). Very comfortable, but for my neighbour's constant, loud snoring. Turned in at about 11pm, sleeping in mummy bags on cheap air mattresses. Then returned to the cabin for 2 more burgers and an evening's chatting and relaxing 'round the stove. Once dinner was eaten, we hiked by headlamp out to the coast on the side of our little gorge opposite the waterfall, following an old trail we'd cut 5 years ago. They tasted great! Cooking on the woodstove is a joy, seems to have unending heat capacity, but never quite burns anything. Fried up a mess of bacon, then 4 burgers. A nice little stack, perhaps 18" deep x 18" high x 3' long. Once we'd had enough of that, we returned to the campsite and felled standing dead trees and bucked them for the night's firewood. Then spent a bit of time making the small waterfall near the stream's entrance to the bay a bit more observable. We put another 8 ballast poles on the roof, insurance vs the next winds. Fired up the stove, and put a couple tins of beans on to heat, ate'em up and set to work. We packed out on Saturday at noon, arriving at the camp just before 1. My neighbor, and I spent the first night in our log cabin Saturday. Menu's bacon cheeseburgers for lunch/dinner and sausages and eggs for brekky.įorcast says sunny, high -1C, low -8C. Wire'em down this weekend, during our first overnight. The roof's fine, cabin's dry inside, just a few ballast poles blew off. Pleasantly surprised, upon rounding the last corner and leaping the stream. 2 days of ice, freezing rain, 80kph winds. Took a worried walk out to the cabin last night, by headlamp, with my building buddy. Not the huge lodge behemoths seen these days, but tidy structures that invite without saying. His builds are the immaculate construction in regard to log 'cabins'.in my opinion. Kid, you could do worse than hooking up with Malamute. Quoting: JasonBThanks Malamute, I appreciate the information you're sharing
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