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Extreme Cabin Makeover: Sespe Edition

29 11 07 - 00:49

In a year of impressive architectural developments on the Thacher campus, it would be easy to overlook the relatively humble project taking shape on the far side of Nordhoff Ridge, unless you have been among the various pack animals—including scores of Toads—pressed into service loading in trip after trip of lumber, concrete, and other building materials.

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This old stone house is in an inholding in the Sespe Wilderness, between Ojai and Santa Barbara, more or less. It had been abandoned to the elements and rodents and the bikers and other backcountry rif-raff for fifty years.

I built the clerestory and the porch, put on a new roof and installed the roll-up shutters a couple winters ago. I lived out there (it's a mile and a half from the trailhead) and got all the materials hauled in on horseback and by students.

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