Below is a picture of the station in the foreground and the and the log horse barn in the background. The station is very well preserved. At first you might not be aware that it is a log cabin because the logs are covered with cedar shakes.
Here is another view of the guard station:
Many people visit and stay in this little cabin. As you walk in the door you notice two things--first the carpentry skill that was needed to fit the logs together, and second the human chronology indicated by names and dates on the logs. Perhaps this is not as exciting as the cave paintings at Lascaux, but I like it. Here is a sample of architecture and our attempts at immortality:
Next we travel to Dean's Valley to find the remains of a log cabin that was noted on an 1880 Government Land Office survey map. Here is a picture of one (the most intact) corner where the logs are fitted together. This work was not done with a chainsaw! You can see the axe marks.
The next photo shows the small rectangular frame of logs and what is left of the roof that seems to have blown off the frame. I found indications of peg joinery on some of the beams that were laying on the ground.
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