Our Cabin in Burrows Park Circa 2009
This post was inspired by Jes and Neil. They posted a beautiful vintage photo of Estes Park Colorado circa 1909. The colors and age of the photo make it very unique and beautiful to my eye.
So, I decided to try to emulate that look using a digital photo of our cabin. Here is the final result, circa 2009:
Our cabin in Burrows Park
It makes me very happy that parts of Colorado still remain pristine and primitive after a hundred years :-).
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Hmm, so that’s what we were looking for last year. At least the next time I’m in that area I’ll know what to look for 🙂 (well that and I’ll actually remember to put the coordinates into the GPS 😉 ).
Yep, thar’ she be :-).
Keep me posted as you plan trips next year. I want to coordinate schedules with friends because it’d be sweet to get to hang out some in CO :-).
Hey y’all, my name is Brian Key.In 1981 or early 82 that cabin was bought by a man named Bob Lassiter who was my dad’s best friend. In early 82′ Bob asked my dad if he would be interested in caretaking the place for a year. After a little thought and talking it over amongst ourselves we decided that we would, that it would be a once in a lifetime experience. we got there from Wichita falls, Texas in mid August. Now there was a lot to get ready. The cabin back then had no electricity, no running water and of course no plumbing. We knew we were going to be snowed in for at least 6 months. This ment we needed at least 7 to 8 months of food and fuel. So my Dad being retired Air force bought a lot of the dry goods from the base commissary at Shepherd Air force Base and the rest from Murphy’s grocery at the south end of Lake City, mostly canned goods. Now we just needed wood, we figured a years worth. So my Dad and Bob with chainsaws in hand went all up down the valley for 2 weeks clearing out dead trees and bucking them up. Now we put all that wood in a long stack about 6 feet high 6
Feet wide and about 40 feet long. That wood pile was in front of the cabin to the right if your looking out the front door. As for water, we used the river behind the cabin. In the winter we had to go down there twice a day with a hand axe to keep the hole in the ice open. Now about the plumbing the outhouse to use the phrase lightly was directly in front of the cabin just to the left of the wood pile basically it was a hole in the ground with a big wooden chair over it that had a hole in the seat there was no covering its just you and the wide open. Of course we didn’t go out there at night time we used a slot bucket at night during the winter we kept that all the side porch on the left hand side of the cabin but anyway I could go on and on about that place had a lot of good memories there hiked up to American basin I fished in Cooper lake and the Beaver ponds during the winter I skied all over that place that whole valley was my backyard for a year I’m going to have to get back there someday before the Lord calls me home anyway just thought I’d share that with y’all take care.