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Aug 23, 2008 12:42

Today I decided I needed to get out and go somewhere. Yet I know my hips are not as big a fan of hiking as the rest of me is. The pain usually lasts for a couple days after doing real hiking. Not enjoyable.
So I decided to go over to the east shore of Grand Lake since I had never been there.
It's a very nice area. I walked through the town to Point Park and stopped for a bit under the tree and snacked. Then I found a little path and kept walking along the water. I can across a woman sitting on her back porch and I feared I was on private property and could get in trouble so I asked. She was a sweet old woman, probably in her 80s. She told me it was no problem and I was free to come and go. I thanked her and kept walking. I ran into a fence after not too long that she had warned me about so I looked around then turned back. She was still outside, had a hand saw in hand and we stopped to talk for a bit. She told me her great-grandfather had built their cabin and various other little things. We parted ways again. But I stopped to look at her gorgeous old house and turned around to ask her more about it.  The date over the door is 1896. And It's a beautiful example of Rocky Mountain Rustic. This is where the outside of the cabin walls are covered with the lodgepole pines cut flat. So the outsides are covered in the bark, which gets peely and dark over time. It's very unique. And this cabin had beautiful wood designs that are hard for me to describe. Often the older houses will have aesthetic little touches to them. A little sunburst motif of small lodgepole sticks and so forth. I'll have to take a picture to show you.
Robin Yeats is her name and she invited me back and I invited her up to Shadowcliff. I plan on seeing her again. She's very sweet and full of history of Grand Lake and family stories. I can't wait to go back! It's wonderful to make new friends.
I think the downpour has passed. I'll head back up to Shadowcliff now.
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