Climbing

We got a late start and drove up to Big Chief for a morning climbing session. After getting a little lost and having to bushwhack, we got on a horrible "10a" slab on a pillar "North Pillar?" and then on to the fabulous "Half Baked", "Under Cooked" and "Bun in the Oven". By this point, it was getting pretty hot, so we plodded back to the car and headed to Colfax to order materials for the Hot Tub. The basic idea is something like this:



the plans were drawn up in Google Sketchup

we ordered the following things to be delivered tomorrow:

1 4'x8' sheet 3/4" CDX plywood 30
2 4'x8' sheet 1/2" CDX plywood 40
2 4x8s 8 foot doug fir 60
3 4x4s 8 foot doug fir 44
3 4x4s browntone pressure treated 30
3 2x8s 8 foot doug fir 24
14 2x4s 8 foot doug fir 46
12 1x8s 8 foot pine 96
8 2x2 8 foot redwood B 53
2 2x8 8 foot redwood B 60
3 1x8 8 foot doug fir (tub support) ??
8 60 pound bags of cement
2 more pre cast cement piers
Assorted brackets

which should be the bulk of the materials needed, barring unforseen events. We brought three of the cement bags and the piers with us in the Subaru and whellbarrowed them down to the cabin. Of course, we also had to rent a pair of bolt cutters to liberate the wheelbarrow because Kenji had lost track of the key to the lock which locked the wheelbarrow to the cabin. Having carried four cement piers down to the cabin the previous weekend, I can say that a wheelbarrow is really a must-have tool for this kind of work.