The day we took the outhouses down

One of the first groups to visit the Goldminer was a church group from Evergreen. It had gotton pretty cold. We thought we had a woodpile which seemed to have disappeared when we arrived. We told our guests we would have wood for the next evening fire. We were going to take the outhouses down and burn them in the fireplace.

We had wanted to do this when we found that people were still using them. Hikers, particularly, felt they should be able to avail themselves of the opportunity even though we had posted signs asking them not to do so. People using our back yard as a toilet was disgusting. Since the hotel had indoor plumbing, we did not know this had been happening.

The guests were curious as to how we would do this. We said we would go out early in the morning (6:00 A.M.) and pull them down with the winch on our truck. We would then cut them up for the fireplace. Little did we know they found this an exciting event. The next morning they were all up and camera ready. We made coffe and went out  to tackle the task. It did not take long and we had our evening firewood.

We all came back inside and had a hearty breakfast. That evening we sat in front of a cozy fire and told stories. They said they found thir stay memorable and would come back again. If any of the people who were here for that event would like to contact us and share their pictures, wo would like to here from them.

-- Carol Rinderknecht