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    "My folks gave me a beautiful blue cook stove called the Round Oak. So, Shawn and I brought that stove and a 50-lb sack of peanuts and set up our kitchen at the end of the driveway at the Ariel Mine and proceeded to build a 16 by 16 foot A-frame right at the edge of the river along a gorge with deep pools. All the wood and more we got about three miles upstream from Sixes store, a tumbled down house that the land owner let us recycle 4 by 6 timbers.With a loft big enough for a double bed, open on both ends in the downstairs, we covered it with 12 mil extra tough translucent plastic"        -barry