For everything there is a season, and fall at Teton Backcountry Guides means re-constructing our yurts in the Teton mountains. Most folks who visit the yurts do not realize that every June at the end of the ski season, we completely dismantle every structure at the backcountry locations and pack things up and out. Then just about three months later, we unpack the whole thing and re-construct all the facilities again. Since we operate in …
Plummer Canyon Hut Relocation
We could take a big sigh of relief this week when we saw all of the snow piling up in the mountains and knew that we had completed the construction of our new Plummer Canyon Hut deck. Thanks to the help from professional carpenter Mike Cyr, the deck was built in two days with battery powered tools under the warm sunny skies of mid-September. Having already built a deck in the mountains at 8400' at the end of November in some of the …
Plummer Canyon Hut has moved!
Morning's dawn brought the sound of chopper blades as we spent our very last night ever sleeping on the old Plummer Canyon deck. With the help of our friends, Frank Sweeney and Chris Davis, we stationed ourselves on the slopes the night before and awaited the arrival of new decking materials and bunk beds to be flown up from Moose Creek the following morning. What's it take to move a yurt, you ask, and why? Several years ago, the Forest …