Baker's Peak Journey - codougd's Photos

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codougd > Our Baker’s Peak adventure started in September of 1998 when Bob Dickey, the previous owner of tract #85, signed on the dotted line and 35.7 acres of meadows, aspens, chokecherry and serviceberry became ours.

codougd > We also got an ancient cabin (shack) that had been built by Bob’s brother Don who actually lived there over several winters.

codougd > This is how it looked after we shoveled out the bird’s nests, mouse nests and other debris. We actually stayed here one hunting season. The wood stove found a new home in our new cabin, built a few years later.

codougd > The site of the old cabin, however, was not our choice for the site for our new cabin. That would find a home across the meadow and up the hill from the well house. (One of the attractions of this property is the only deep, productive well on the mountain: 300+ feet deep with good quality, steady water.) Up on this hill, where you see the travel trailer sitting under the tin snow shed, is where we would build. When you see the views, you will understand our choice.

codougd > However, first the trailer and shed had to go. We made arrangements with one of our Baker’s Peak neighbors to take the trailer in trade for some of his labor when we built our new cabin. Here it sits, just before being towed to the other side of the mountain.

codougd > And here is the site with the trailer and shed gone and the holes dug for the foundation piers.

codougd > We mixed concrete in a portable mixer and poured it by hand to create fifteen 12” diameter piers that are a minimum of 4 feet below grade and contain 3-4 rebar rods driven another 2-4 feet below that. That’s a lot of cement!

codougd > A couple of weeks later on a cool morning in late may, with the concrete in the piers properly cured, we began constructing the floor.

codougd > As the sun rises, the work continues,

Our Baker’s Peak adventure started in September of 1998 when Bob Dickey, the previous owner of tract #85, signed on the dotted line and 35.7 acres of meadows, aspens, chokecherry and serviceberry became ours.

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