Recent content by YukonMontanaTannerTrapper

The inside of the barn went from this..... .....to this.....by the way, my friend Luis came over one day to help me build that extraordinary (in my opinion) workbench..... I've done a considerable amount of landscaping too.....lots of rock gardens and lots of perrinials planted..... I...

Luis also helped me to install the washer / dryer units..... Finally on September 12, 2021 I decided to move some of my furniture into the cabin..... I didn't actually own much furniture (divorce can do that to a guy).....so I decided to make some of my own.....the base for a small...

Next added insulation to the attic and to the crawl space.....August 11, 2021..... And was able to close in that new side wall with a sliding glass door..... And after the electricity was in, started on the drywall.....probably the worst job of the entire cabin build.....August 12...

Many other aspects of construction were taking place throughout the same time frames.....installation of the sewer system.....May 17, 2021..... Connecting to the existing waterline (I hooked up to my neighbors' well.....another significant savings had).....June 12, 2021..... And the...

Adding the sod was another project that darn near killed me. I added seventeen pallets of sod..... This would have been a massive cost to me but I was very fortunate here and actually a friend of a friend that owned a 600 acre sod farm gave it all to me for free.....I made many trips to the...

Next I started to demolish the side of the cabin that faced the mountains. I had big plans for this wall.....it was going to be a complete transition.....May 13, 2021..... Once the demolition was completed, I added floor trusses and plywood flooring.....May 25, 2021..... Bert the Hoarder...

Foy.....one thing that I neglected to mention is that many of these private landowners are also conservationist and they're actually a good thing. They protect and preserve the wilderness and the article stated that they're an integral part in saving the west. Without some of these landowners...

A friend came to town..... ......I needed to make another trip to the hospital to have a test performed on my heart.....a full day in the hospital was going to be required..... We decided to make it a road trip since the hospital wasn't local.....it was a 200 mile drive..... The...

chet6.7.....if we could be so lucky to find a dinosaur bone..... Foy.....just today I read an article that stated that 2/3 of the private land in Montana is owned by 4,000 private individuals / corporations (think Ted Turner for one). Nothing surprises me anymore..... Sierra Valley.....you...

Trapper seemed to be particularly intrigued with this ice feature.....Tanner.....he seemed to follow me while Trapper hugged the edge of the ice feature..... I wasn't particularly concerned when I noticed that Trapper began to walk underneath the ice wall.....Tanner seemed maybe a little...

As the old saying goes "all good things must come to an end" and so it was that we headed back to the rig..... This time we took an entirely different route.....we crossed the trail at one point but mostly we just wandered in the direction of the rig. I had spotted a herd of elk to the south...

ITTOG.....go figure..... As far as I'm concerned, when hiking in Grizzly Bear country, these wide open expanses are where I want to be. In my mind, it's much better watching a Grizzly Bear charging at me at 30 mph in the wide open than it is to surprise one while in a dense pine...

Arjan.....Winter has set in and we haven't been out in the wilderness near so much as we'd like to. It's cold this morning in Montana.....yesterday morning we awoke to minus nine degrees. The valley and the mountains are covered in snow and the flames in the stove are a common sight these days...

ITTOG.....the Beartooth Mountains now compete with the Crazy Mountains for being my favorite mountain range in Montana. If you ever have the opportunity to return to Montana, try to get there..... Amazingly we didn't see any bears, mountain lions, elk, or deer that day.....after spending...

I finally decided that we just had to turn around.....we had wandered so far off trail so many times, stopped to swim in the lakes and stopped to take it all in, that I really had no idea how far we had gone. After maybe only 10 minutes, maybe a little more (+/- a half mile) we ran into the...