The Creek

The Creek
This creek wraps itself around the 38 acres of lower camp and defines the border. Acres of hills, lowlands, a bluff, and a meadow. Up from the creek a bit the camp continues with 20 acres of high ridge leading to over 100 acres of deep pine forest, brooks, and marsh.All of it lies in the middle of a 1200 acre woods. Walk north and you're in 6 million Adirondack acres. Bring a camera, you might just see moose, bear, coyote or deer here. Cross the creek and you're in my mini-camp, with guest cabin and road access.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Camp Underway!

Fields of wild daisies at the guest cabin
Another rainy weekend... But that couldn't dampen my spirits. Despite the soggy days, Dad and I spent a great weekend up at the camp. It was raining half the time, sometimes heavily, but our attention was less on being outdoors and more on making some initial improvements to the guest cabin. We turned a scary loft ladder into a decent set of stairs and put a railing up top to make a sleeping space. Nobody wanted to be up there with the scary edge and the height. Now, maybe it's ready to actually be used for a sleeping space.
A nearly vertical home-built ladder became a more gently angled loft stairs. Gone are the 2x4 rungs, replaced by 8 inch flat treads to stand on. We later added a hand rail. Up top, a railing was mounted in place. Ready to put bunks in!
Everyone needs an Amish good luck barn star, a Northeast tradition.



My neighbor and builder on his preferred mode of transportation.


A ice/watershield, much better than tar.
When we woke up the next morning, the weather hadn't improved. Despite the mud, we decided to try to get up into the main camp to see how the cabin was progressing. We saw my builder at the sawmill and he joined us for the ride in. A nice surprise to see that not only had the foundation been completed, but the deck, and start of framing as well. Seeing the cabin in my head was the start of this project. Working the design on  paper with everyone's ideas and advice was next. But seeing it come alive was a real treat. It was better than I expected and after walking the deck, I felt it was turning out better than expected.
View from the creek. Soil gently graded for runoff and ready for seeding.
A 10ft x 40ft porch will be attached and supported by piers.
Sliding glass doors by kitchen area on right and master bedroom on left.
The framing makes the front elevations come to life!
The fringe benefit of a permanent wood foundation (PWF) is
that I got a basement for water, plumbing, and storage. Note
the trusses and similarity to a roof truss.

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