Second Day here Apr 2007

Bryan was quite alarmed!!!! There were 2 100' tall Balsams ... one leaned into the other and both were leaning at 15 to 20 degrees over the little trapper cabin. He told me to put on snowshoes and fallow him. We struggled in the 6 feet of snow thru all the willows etc over to these 2 trees. It was alarming to think of these coming down. They were 30" at the base. Bryan had been a professional faller for many years and a chainsaw is his friend. He had to domino it by hitting those two by another in order to swing those 2 away from the cabin. They landed beside the outhouse missing it by 10'.

Later in the spring when the snow had started to disappear he made a coffee table from the base. He also cut 6" slabs to make sidewalks to keep us out of the mud. Later he cut slices and cut these into walls for the vegetable gardens. There was still lots of logs for making boards by the Alaskan Mill. The previous trappers young daughter had warned us before we came out here. She said I don't know if the cabin will have made it thru the winter. There's a big tree hanging over it. Well, no more.

Cutting rounds into edge pieces for the vegetable garden

I tried growing tomatoes in the ground but only got 3. The ground is too cold here.