We have just returned from our annual trip into the Cascades, staying in Cabin A.
As you can see, Cabin A is an old log cabin. It was built for the railroad over 100 years ago. It now has electricity, indoor plumbing, hot and cold running water, and is pretty civilized. However, this year we felt pretty close to being outside.
This little golden mantle ground squirrel lived under the cabin.
Instead of using a bear box to protect our food, we use a mouse box to keep our dry goods safe from the mice that run through the cabin.
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| Ice chest, used as a mouse box |
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| I guess "anti-mouse box" would be more accurate |
But our newest animal experience in the cabin was a small bat flying just below the peak in the bedroom ceiling. After we located it on the ceiling beam, it moved into a hole at the end of the beam. We love bats, and appreciate the job that they do controlling insects OUTSIDE, but we didn't really want to share the cabin with the bat. We plugged up the hole with a piece of newspaper, and hoped that the bat went out the way it appeared to come in. So that's how we bat-proofed Cabin A.
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| Bat proofing |
And yes we saw lots of mountains, lakes, deer, wildflowers, and a nice selection of birds.
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| We canoed to within 60 feet of this resting bald eagle |
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