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My beloved "Cabin in the Woods" (pic8.co)

Located in the Western Maine Mountains. Cedar pole roof frame with 2x4 walls, shiplap and battens.

Built by Dad and me in the fall of 1977. 4 seasons of fun here!

Sleeps up to 8.

Overlooks a small brook trout filled pond (on the right) at the base of a tall mountain. The stream exiting the pond travels behind the camp along the back property line. We used the stationary part of a duo-pane sliding glass door mounted sideways as a picture window facing the pond and mountain.

No electricity. Refrigeration by an old 1940s Servel gas powered refrigerator. Gas lights, gas cook stove. Woodstove for heat. Uninsulated. One seater Outhouse to the left just out of picture view.

Oh, the stories I could tell...

[My beloved "Cabin in the Woods"](https://pic8.co/sh/5kYNU9.png) Located in the Western Maine Mountains. Cedar pole roof frame with 2x4 walls, shiplap and battens. Built by Dad and me in the fall of 1977. 4 seasons of fun here! Sleeps up to 8. Overlooks a small brook trout filled pond (on the right) at the base of a tall mountain. The stream exiting the pond travels behind the camp along the back property line. We used the stationary part of a duo-pane sliding glass door mounted sideways as a picture window facing the pond and mountain. No electricity. Refrigeration by an old 1940s Servel gas powered refrigerator. Gas lights, gas cook stove. Woodstove for heat. Uninsulated. One seater Outhouse to the left just out of picture view. Oh, the stories I could tell...

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It's beautiful, Lurker, and what a legacy to share with your Dad.

Oh, the stories I could tell...

There must be a sub for that, please avail yourself!

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My Dad died 8 years later but we did get many fun hunting and fishing trips in before he departed way too early in life. Too bad I have no kids to build more camp memories/legacy. I will likely have to sell it in 10-15 years as I inevitably become too old to fully utilize/maintain it. That will be a very sad day.

Property tax was $201 this year. It's gone up a lot in the last 5 years. Lol!

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Looks amazing.

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Great escape from the rat race. Very addicting if you let it become a habit.

Fishing, hunting, atvs, snowmobiling, putt around the logging roads and woods with my Tacoma. Nearest town had a claimed population of 32 in 2000.

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The only "down side" is the outhouse (have not had to use one of those in forever). Otherwise I would put in a little shed with some batteries and some off-grid power and a starlink (so I could work remote) and would just live there. Well, as long as I could have a bunch of space to grow food too =)

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In the winter you can bring the toilet seat inside to keep it warm until needed...We never did, even the girls put up with it (but I was told they just hovered over it without sitting on it). I've seen wintertime lows hit -37F there on a couple snowmobile trips over the last 30 years. A unique feeling to drop your drawers and sit on a -37F toilet seat. So cold it literally burns. Makes you not want to linger any longer than necessary.

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I’m east of you. Actually heading up by Rangely to finish someone else’s build. It’s become my vocation: finishing construction after guys all walk away. Looking at a spot pretty close to downtown. Kill deer, catch lakers from your bedroom window.

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Very cool!

I’m east of you.

Do you mean you live east of my camp? That would put you living somewhere near the west side of Moosehead Lake.

Actually Rangeley is south-southwest of my camp. If you proceeded from Rangeley to Eustus and head past Grand Falls, cross Spencer Stream into Enchanted via atv/snowmobile trail for about 25 miles, you'll be damn close to my camp. My camp is north of The Forks, south of Jackman.

Kill deer, catch lakers from your bedroom window.

Nice! But make sure it's fully permitted if it's going to be close to shore. LURC doesn't take kindly to anyone breaking their land use rules. I assume LURC covers Rangeley too. Much more moose around my camp than deer. The state's largest moose for that season was shot about a mile from my camp ~10 years ago.

I love the western Maine woods, it's God's Country but Rangeley/Oquossic is much more populated than my neck of the woods around camp. I used to ride over to the annual Rangeley Snowdeo every year, but haven't been in about the last 15 years. A clusterfuck at the few restaurants and gas stations during the Snowdeo ... and can be a damn long, cold and bumpy ride home after sunset. Those trails get beat during Snowdeo.

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SHTF box buried about 100 yards back in the pine grove

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You still pumpin it into the 50 yr old outhouse? That's not how that works...

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No, we dug a hole and stuck a 55g drum in there under the outhouse in 1977. We used lime to kill the odor and help break down the contents. Hauled the drum out once and dropped it off at the town's open pit dump, replaced with a new barrel. Last I checked, that's not quite half full.

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Fucking A. At least one of you boomers has good taste.

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I can't take all the credit, my Dad designed it. It's really a somewhat typical example of a Maine hunting camp.

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Nice! Looks like you need a new deer skull - antlers have gone missing.

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That was an old moose skull my dad found in the area about the time we built the camp. It turns out red squirrels and chipmunks love to chew on what was left of the antlers for the calcium. In late spring snowmobile riding it is easiest to find moose antler drops, I have a small collection. The horseshoe was dug up when we dug the outhouse pit. Apparently an old logging horse was buried there many years earlier.

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Moose

My bad!

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Lol! Depending on where you live you probably have never seen one before. Understandable mistake. I'll let it slide this time...

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I've never heard of a gas powered refrigerator..

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Ever been in an RV?

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Not really, no. Are those directly fueled with gas or typically through a generator/alternator?

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When they are plugged in or the generator running they run off that, but when there is no outside electricity they run off propane. Most of them will switch back and forth automatically.

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They are real, run on propane. They use ammonia to refrigerate.

Looks like this. (pic8.co)