Grizzly and Wolfman
return to the mountains
for construction of ... The Porch!.

We wanted a front porch extending out 8-feet over the fast-dropping downslope.

Support for the porch extension was a problem. If the trees had been growing where we wanted them, it would have been a lot easier. Instead we got involved in moving the trees around a bit. We had to find a couple of suitable whiteoak trees and from each tree we cut a relatively straight 25-foot length to provide support for the porch floor (and to extend upwards to provide eventual support for the porch roof.)

We quickly figured out that such tree sections would be difficult to move around on the mountainside.

So our search radius for suitable tree candidates withered to about 20 feet from the cabin AND UPHILL. After cutting and trimming to length, we snaked the trees downhill to their respective exposed rock footings.

(Don't ask how they were erected. We don't remember except to recall that it took everyone nearby, a lot of fancy rope and carabiner work and some shaky scaffolding off the front of the cabin.)

By the end of the day the trees were relocated. And we were ready to build a framework out to them.

And upon that framework we laid the extra 16-foot floor beams earlier saved from the loft construction.

But the porch length was to be 24-feet. So additional 4-foot "wings" had to be added to each end beyond the 16-foot floor beams.

And so ended another day. After a dip in the river, the workmen became surprisingly presentable as we headed into nearby Sylva for our dining pleasure at Lulu's Cafe.

The porch frame was in place and suspended out in space. Next it had to be made useable

.... to be continued .....