Adios for now

It is a beautiful day and we hate to leave, but so it goes.

Things for the next group:
AA batteries. The batteries in the heater control are low and we have no spares.
Possibly flour. We did not use any but there isn't a lot.
The vacuum filter is ok. Lou cleaned it. It just needs to be cleaned more often.

As soon as someone can drive in (may not be soon), we need
paper towels
toilet paper
oven cleaner or something to clean the stove top. The usual methods aren't working.
Ghirardelli brownie mix

Helping Keep the Home Fires Burning

Lou was a busy bee carrying firewood back to the cabin. Note how much snow is still around the shed.







And look below at the front of the pumphouse. Lou wondered if we should check inside it. But as long as we have water, I don't have any plans to dig down through all that snow. It is above the top of the door.

Bear Creek

Lots and lots of water coming over Bear Creek falls.

Work at the Mill Site

The road into the mill has been plowed (and paved) and this building by the old shop looks complete. Altho no one was around, it appears they have been working there. We saw a bed inside this building and a trailer -- but couldn't tell if it has been used or not.







The road was plowed clear to the other building (bunkhouse/shower/whatever) and it is closed in but the walls are just framed inside. So presumably they got it closed for the winter and are now working to get it complete.

Opening Day of Fishing Season

There were fishermen (and one woman) upstream and down. We saw the man farthest downstream catch a fish and put it back. And when we talked with that group a little later, they said they had caught several and released them all.

Another group was camped with a trailer and a popup trailer just across the bridge on the upstream side. It looked pretty cold altho there wasn't much snow right where they were set up.

Still lots of very wet, deep snow

The lump behind Lou is the TOP of the gate.

Check out the pumphouse and its cute little cap.


And here is our cozy, warm cabin sitting in the sun. You can see the remainder of the latest snowfall on the roof.

Very, very wet snow

We went for a hike from the back of the cabin to the old road. The snow is very wet as the sun its keeping the area nice and warm (75 degrees).

Going for our hike, we fell into small caves created by the snow covered fallen trees. Some of us were happier than others:

We dropped the camera inside one of the wholes to take a picture of the little cave and this is what we got:

not much! :) The wholes were pretty deep probably 5 ft. I am sure there are all kinds of critters hibernating down there.

The dogs are having fun exploring all kinds of different places, they sink pretty low into the wet snow so they jump like rabbits. Its cute to see how exhausted they are once we get back to the cabin.

Hiking to the old road is so much easier in the winter because all the weeds are covered with snow and on the way back, we just have to follow our old footsteps.