North to Alaska: June 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Window and door cutouts

We are finally to that point in building where you can take a step back and look at what you have in front of you and begin to imagine what it might look like when its finished. Last night, we cut out the door and window openings and the place really took shape. I have included some low quality cell phone pictures that I couldn't resist taking because the building took on such monumental changes all in a matter of minutes.

The roofing underlayment is done now and we got some prices for our metal roofing. Looks like the roof along with the higher end stove pipe fittings is still going to come in under budget for us, which is a great thing right now. Fingers crossed that we'll be living in this place by September. The plan that is residing in my head is to see if we can get in here before we need to buy any oil at the rental cabin. It'd be great to be able to forego that expense.

Looking South and West from inside

Looking North East from inside

From the South West viewpoint

Sunday, June 13, 2010

loaded up

loaded up
Originally uploaded by justinmaple

Our ride in. The junky little trailer, loaded down with about 300 lbs worth of fish made it along about 4 miles of rough trail before it finally gave in and a wheel fell off. We still had a mile to go, with the help of someone who was stuck behind us (narrow trail, trailer in the way blocking it) we were able to haul everything back to the truck.