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| Rowena Fire - Leslie Lamb |
Iowa man has moved to Bingen, Washington. It's across the river from Hood River.
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| Hood River, Bingen, Rowen Fire, The Dalles |
He reports:
Sitting waiting for Angie’s orthopedic consult. Both of us have bum left knees. My xray was yesterday, my consult in September after pt.
Then later today up to the mountain to haul gear for Stephen, our 72 hippy ski bum friend who is going to self build his forever cabin on 15 wilderness acres. He has a bum knee too. Angie’s bro-in-law, 68, is soon to have both knees replaced. The year of the knee!
Being laid up dampened my plans for exploring on mc, biking, hiking…but there is nice.
Two forest fires either side of us, fortunately no smoke at house. One 50 acres, the other 2500 stage 3 evacuations. I think they are out.
Our 72 yo ski friend Steven bought 20 acres (cheap) of eastern Oregon sparsely treed dry land, zero population nearby. Rough road along a dry creek to the no-utility lot, passing a couple of long disused and deteriorated camper RVs.
His plan is to build a cabin for off-ski season use, stay with friends near the ski slopes in the winter (not us).
To this end he has so far had a shipping container placed into a hillside. He plans on sharing a neighbor's wood mizer (mile away) in exchange for 50% of the cut lumber, sourced from his 20 acres.
He drives a 15 yo Ford Escape, hoping to upgrade to a Ford PU soon.
Fun to visit. Stephen seems happy but I would want something on the grid and less dry, it was crackling tinder dry.
On the way home we detoured around the Rowena fire, 3200 acres, 40+ homes destroyed.
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| Container in hillside |
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| Digging Equipment |
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