In this canyon, time passes differently for everyone. For us, days feel like weeks and years feel like a lifetime.
These are our top 10 most challenging, educating, enlivening, rewarding, informative, inspiring & healing experiences of life on these shores in 2023.
Wintermageddon:
Last winter was a once in a lifetime storm that just never stopped. Record snow meant weeks of shoveling, digging out cars, digging out people, & experiencing the pools in the most magical way possible - snowed in.
A foray into fire:
The Big Creek fire and Midnight fire ravished the land. Both fires nearly took us out and could have been so much worse and thankfully the only losses were toilet paper and a few good nights sleep.
Epic floods, landslides, & empty reservoirs:
May was spent rebuilding our creek pool and seeing the Bear River emerge as the Oneida was drained to record lows. Hot springs were revealed and for once, you could almost imagine this canyon long before a dam.
Septic, solar, & off-grid gridlock:
Our batteries are fried and we’ve replaced not 1 but 2 generators. Between poop, pumps, & power-outages, we’ve had to build & rebuild behind the scenes.
Stone Bathrooms:
If you’re gonna poop in a hole, it may as well be inside of a sexy stone house
Culture you can count on:
The humans hustling on your behalf, led by 2023 hosts Mel & Aubri @loveiswylde have cemented in a culture of kindness, discipline & laugh out loud grit
The Forest Yurts!:
A yurt-raising workshop gifted our Juniper forest with some permanent company for generations to come
A Be Well Expedition to Ecuador:
Our inaugural hot springs & humanitarian adventure to support a community-led educational farm has anchored in commitment to extend our reach beyond our pools
A Dam(n) problem:
We’re saddling up for a long battle ahead to prevent a new Pacificorp dam in the Narrows. We’re organized, committed, and feeling your support! Click here to learn more about the Stop The Dam movement & Water Rights Protest
The largest challenge & success of the year goes out to where it all begins - our Source Pond. When Pacificorp drained our pond, creative problem solving from friends like Dave Sparks @heavydsparks & more literally kept Maple afloat!
