How a campground gets built
Sixteen decks don’t appear on a mountainside by themselves. Here’s the whole thing, more or less in order.
It started with a canopy, a generator and a stack of lumber
February on the mountain. A pop-up canopy, a miter saw, a generator, and enough pressure-treated lumber to figure out whether this was going to work at all.
Built flat, then carried up
Rather than haul a saw, a generator and a pile of lumber up to each site in turn, we built the decks as panels in one place — down at the work camp where the tools already were. Cut once, build the same thing sixty times, stack them. The pile grew through the winter.
Every deck on this mountain started as one of these.
Moving day
By July the stacks were tall and it was time to place them. A tracked skid steer carried each panel up the mountain one at a time, which is slower than it sounds and steeper than it looks.
Supervision was constant
Every job site needs someone to sit in the middle of the work and look concerned about it.
Where they ended up
Level ground, trees for privacy, and on several sites, a view that goes on for thirty miles.
Every deck, where it ended up
Sixty-odd panels, one winter, and this is what they became. Tap any site to see it properly.
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