Cabin on the Lake

Our trip to the cabin started with a visit from Miriam and Jack. Chris left for Texas to find a home for his family. Miriam and Chris came up to our house to stay, and agreed to come to the cabin over Memorial Day. Even though it had finally greened up in Kaysville, and the Island Park Web Cam showed the snow to have melted, I knew the snow around the cabin would not be gone. I brought a sled in case we could not drive all the way in. Because of church responsibilties, we did not leave until Sunday afternoon, and planned to stay until Wednesday. Katherine, I, Lizzy, Miriam and Jack drove the Suburban up. As we drove through Ashton,it started to rain. In Island Park there were patches of snow on the ground, and it was raining lightly.
Sawmill road to Coyote Cabin had been cleared by the Petersons who bought Joel's Cabin. If it had not been cleared, we would have had a long walk, pulling a sled on the snow. You can see that the snow is about three feet deep on the side of the road. We parked to the side of Coyote Cabin.

The road from Coyote Cabin north to Ray's Cabin was somewhat packed down, but the snow was too deep to drive on. We tried, but could only get about twenty feet up the road before we started to spin. Ray had tried earlier to clear the road with his tractor, but could not get traction. We pulled the sled and carried bags up this hill and down to the cabin.

The road down to the cabin was almost completely covered with snow. If we had been able to drive up the road to Ray's cabin, we would not have been able to drive down this road to our cabin. If we had managed to somehow drive down this road to Arkady Cabin, we would not have beenable to drive back up until June or July.

Arkady from the west. Most of this snow in the foreground is snow that has slid off of the roof. There was not snow everywhere however. For example the fire pit area did not have a lot of snow around it.

Arkady cabin from the south.

The road from Arkady to the little cabin was also mostly snow-covered.

Here is our "Little Cabin on the Lake" from the driveway. Although there is water and snow on the driveway, it was possible to walk to the cabin without getting too wet.

This is a view of the lake, east of the little cabin. Actually the water is moving very slowly from the north to the south, towards the creek. So I guess it should be called a "bayou" .

There is no water immediately around the cabin becasue of the soil and road base that we had brought in and placed around the cabin two years ago. That is one of the best improvements we have made to the little cabin.

This is the view from the back of the Little Cabin. Where there is not snow, there is water.

We were to able to walk from Arkady Cabin down to Lucky Dog. We tried to cross Lucky Dog River (formerly Lucky Dog Creek) at Greg's Bridge, but the bridge was too short. We could get onto the bridge, but we couldn't get across to the other side.

Lucky Dog River looking northeast is running high.

On Tuesday we drove in Yellowstone to look for baby animals. This Bison is losing his (or her) winter coat. That is why it looks so shaggy. They sure have an ugly head though. We did not see any baby bison this year. The cows must not have calved yet.

Jack loved running along the boardwalks in Yellowstone. Miriam loved taking pictures of Jack.

Yes, I did work on the little cabin while there, but not all of the time. I spent a few hours each day working on a second layer of 2 " styrofoam insulation in the ceiling. I could not stand on the logs like Greg did last year, so I spent a lot of time moving and climbing ladders. I did finish the east side of the ceiling. The east side is on the left. The west side is on the right, and the south half of it still needs a second layer. My goal is to have the loft of the little cabin stay 70 degrees cool in the heat of the summer.