The posts will be fewer with winter coming on, and progress is incremental as a rule. One HUGE development, however, is that Todd came up and got the solar...

Tom came over for a few days and we made great progress on the ceiling. Among other things, Tom can still work like crazy and he wore me out. Niko came...

There has been some progress since my last post, but it’s just short of success in a couple of key areas as discussed below. Niko...

Bits and Pieces Work is in a fairly relaxed mode, and thus progress is modest. Rather than continue with short posts, I will likely make infrequent posts...

Buttoning up With it possible for snow to fly any time, recent work has been devoted to buttoning up. But unlike previous years, rather than figuring on...

The Roof! This was another pretty good week, even if it doesn’t look like much. The cabin has had a “temporary” ridge cap made from 2...

A Good Week! Much got done this week — all the solar panels are on the roof; most of the wainscoting is up; and the ugly, terrible, rotten job of...

After a nice break with a kayak and backpacking trip, progress continues at Skookum. The usual summary follows. Mark, Nash,...

I will be taking a break from work on Skookum to spend some time kayaking and backpacking. Below is an update of the progress and getting the place buttoned...

Another week and more progress. Some time ago I made loose arrangements to put up the solar systems and install the wood stove in July… and now it...

This is another summary of several days of effort. There’s nothing dramatic here, just slow and steady progress. The...

This post includes a mish-mash of progress from several trips to Skookum. Progress has been good, with the completion of the underlayer of the floor the...

This post is from several trips to Skookum, all with the goal of getting the cabin winterized. Tim Fry has been helping with the wood floor, and Wylie...

As the weather has improved progress has begun on the cabin again. Work will be a bit haphazard and not nearly as intense as last year. As a result the...

The season is starting MUCH earlier than last year. I drove all the way in with no problems, except a large tree has fallen across the road early on. Someone...

Winter is waning, so I thought I would share some pictures of Skookum as spring begins. I have hiked in 3 times this winter...

Last visit for the year? I made what might be the last visit to Skookum for the year, hiking in the mile and a half from the base of the jeep road with...

Buttoning up My posts have slowed down, and will slow down more as the winter months settle in. Since Logan left, I’ve been up to Skookum 3 times...

The roof! Putting the roof up consisted of first, putting up the SIP panels, which are 4 ft by 16 ft panels that are 1 ft thick (OSB sheeting on each side...

A pretty good week The Alaskan mill is put away. The scribe is put away. The chainsaw work is almost done. All the logs are up. This week was all about...

Roof and Rain A major rain storm came in and cut this week short at Thursday. Mark and Logan worked on Tuesday, and then I went up on Wednesday, so we...

Near Disasters and Progress This was a full week with Mark here, and following a tradition set last year, much progress was made and a (near) disaster...

9/11 Anniversary — almost fitting I am posting this on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This past week wasn’t that disastrous, although...

Short Week We had a very short week, as Logan needed a break and headed to Alabama for a long weekend. For the 2+ days we worked, we made good progress....

Walls going up This week was all about putting up walls and we made good progress without major mishaps. We’re a bit over halfway done with the fourth...

Ramping up… I hope As usual, we didn’t get as far as I had hoped, but progress was made and nobody was hurt. A couple of Logan’s friends...

HUGE Sill Logs! This was our first work with logs, and of course you start with the bottom (sill) logs that are the most difficult, and also the biggest....

Not much progress, but not zero progress Everything seemed to conspire against making progress this week. The weather was unusually wet, we swapped out...

Too fast! Mistakes! And good luck? This week was ambitious and so we had to move fast. This led to mistakes, and of course problems happen even without...

The original plan for this week was to backfill the cellar, set up and pour footings for the walls, and then work on the stem walls. We changed this by...