Now that the walls are up and we have protection from the wind, we need protection from the real joy of the Pacific Northwest, all that liquid sunshine. In true bow-isle style these tents will have tarp roofs.
After a day of throwing rocks into a muddy pit in what we call a road we were finally able to drive up to the site. It makes listening to music so much more enjoyable. Please notice the beautiful ridge beam though. It was put up with great care way too early in the morning with way too much rain falling.
No, the rafters didn't fall back in on us. We figured if we just had camp buy a lot of port-a-ledges we could keep the rafters like this and all the kids would love it! The management didn't go for the idea and so we had to fight the laws of gravity to put them way up in the air. Oh yeah, one of the most exciting things about these tents, they're almost two feet taller than the old ones, no more waking up and bashing your forehead on the rafter and then pretending like it knocked you out to get 5 more minutes of sleep. Sorry, that's what happens though when you have counselors designing the tents.
Hmm, that looks pretty safe to me. Throw me that nail gun would you please?
Carpenters - 1, Gravity - 0 (please let it stay that way)
If you look really closely you'll notice that the doorway really only fits folks under 4'. Small design flaw, but nothing a chainsaw won't fix. We just thought the campers would have a great time seeing their counselors trying to get into the tents.
It almost looks like we know what we were doing. Maybe someday, but, till then, we'll just keep faking.
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