My Kingdom For a Flat Surface

When you glance at the Upper20 from say, the top of Shifty's Hill, you might assume that large portions of the property are flat. That would be a mistake. The Upper20 is a set of terraces alternating with slope in between, but mostly slope. Just ask those Caribou staring down at you. You're constantly blocking small tables to run a cookstove. If sleeping on the ground in a tent, you must orientate properly. We had started Jim's cabin in 2006, but we decided to build a flat platform that would eventually serve as the foundation for the main cabin in 2007. Enough was enough.

We were lucky to catch Tom Ratledge from Yukon Helicopters coming off of another contract and use his services for a few hours before heading back to Bethel.

Getting ready to hook a load.

Off to the Upper20

Jenn working on setting up one of the lines

Calling it a day.

A good example of the slope we're dealing with. The back of the deck to front is 24' and is already nearly up to Jenn's shoulder. We'd have to address that.

OP success. The railing should keep folks from a taking a header off the front. We would later pull 16' of the decking and and lay the cabin panels directly on the joists underneath. But, until then it was nice just to have a platform. And flat ground.