https://patrick-hutchison.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/0bb97c68-32c0-45f3-8ef3-0e986190d2a6/81dxakyoPXL._UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/0f07be20-2197-4a1c-a18a-41e082de8aca/indienext.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/b6af8439-cef9-4e0e-84f7-fd94ba5a550c/usatodaybestseller.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/1a70dd48-2e0e-4890-847b-43077e948969/indiebestseller.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/9133626a-6336-46f5-9b84-f3baa90d4d49/author+photo.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/0349cc12-44d9-4f62-a5c4-f08d7e37bfe0/download+%281%29.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/fca4d605-4a4b-449e-8dc1-0c0bbed2da1e/download+%289%29.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/548cfc8d-ea97-4344-bdeb-269fb70994ed/1.jpeg Home The cabin as seen from the road, shortly after buying it. Rotten plywood serves as a bridge across the muck. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/4d22afd5-fd12-4f06-93da-26be5eec1e41/2.jpeg Home The front of the cabin before any work has taken place. Open deck framing below. The electrical box leads to nothing inside. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/66353393-b58e-4cba-9c31-de99b897d35b/4.jpeg Home The inside of the cabin as I bought it. The left window looks out onto the deck. The right windows look toward the driveway. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/c060a6ea-9a82-439b-ab0a-6569b6ba6d64/3.jpeg Home Indy pointing out how un-waterproof the rusty roof looks. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/389d7b3e-974e-4f93-831e-9943b10eaa95/5.jpeg Home The loft after an initial cleaning of the insulation, most of which had fallen out of the ceiling. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/9bac8793-c0f6-4924-ac05-9c25f69cad1c/6.jpg Home Looking into the woods at a mesmerizing mix of ferns, hemlocks, Douglas firs, cedars, maples, and alders. (Credit: Maddy Porter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/b1fa0868-eb4d-42b8-b08f-be134a5adf05/7.jpg Home Just above Sunset Falls, looking over the South Fork Skykomish River toward Mount Index on the right. (Credit: Maddy Porter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/d6b1b76d-33fc-4cb0-b16f-f06e3e204e9a/8.jpeg Home Matt, the cheapest plywood available, and my mom’s little red Ranger on the morning of the initial work party. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/0b4810d9-9d80-4f8a-a814-f3a3e3a31be1/9.jpeg Home Indy hauling a bucket of rotten wood out of the cabin. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/dadf8717-6f31-4399-aea6-c507251eac0d/12.jpeg Home The little woodstove and its nuclear-shaped vents glowing from a crackling fire. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/521751fc-ebc1-45e5-98a3-08f5a661dc61/14.jpeg Home Bryan playing guitar out on the deck after a late-morning breakfast. (Credit: Kelly Wang) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/c8b56a88-0a04-4e9c-b45d-899054b62337/13.jpeg Home An early kitchen setup with a Coleman stove, camp chairs, and kerosene lanterns. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/c5a00e57-b33f-48ac-9556-c4c38ada0f28/15.jpg Home An unreal sunset seen from the hill above the mudslide. This was taken a few years after the slide. The roofs of destroyed cabins can be seen poking through the new growth. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/c90a6a25-8ad1-4bc8-ae36-93bdb55e43d4/21.jpeg Home An early-morning target-practice session with the cabin’s fine selection of BB guns. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/71aa7eb5-da5a-4ae3-9f34-5b545f1db0f8/16.JPG Home A fresh harvest of salmonberries, which grew like weeds all around the cabin. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/be1a3f9e-7e08-4445-badc-b56b58fcb540/17.jpeg Home Indy using the Dremel to hack away exposed screw ends during construction of the cabin’s kitchen. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/00a1cb63-e86b-4930-8737-c9711200d54d/18.jpeg Home A close-up of the Boeing shipping crate material salvaged for the kitchen’s countertops. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/b7129195-99c8-4301-9140-57406a7ac492/19.jpeg Home The finished kitchen with gas stove, shelf for beer and cooler storage, and patent-pending bucket plumbing system. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/dacd4032-1e27-4859-ae8a-2deea6b93b39/20.jpg Home The new bridge constructed to bypass the mudslide near Sunset Falls. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/e1df361c-f949-4e74-b661-cb495c488c6a/11.jpeg Home Indy and I cleaning things up on the new deck at the end of the first work party. (Credit: Matt Badger) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/6e05858d-917d-4e75-9fbc-2a7ca76e5790/10.jpeg Home Matt adding cedar decking with the world’s most powerful drill plugged into the generator. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/82f9926b-ef71-43fc-89b7-26568f160d5b/22.jpg Home A view of Mount Persis from downtown Index in winter. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/211b127b-e145-4f8a-baeb-53c60bb4bfa3/23.jpg Home Bryan demonstrating the best way to warm yourself and your coffee at the woodstove. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/7f9b5c7c-87ad-4cf9-8814-2544a3c2a924/24.jpg Home Quite possibly the most awe-inspiring set of stairs ever created. Note the subtle expansion of tread width. Not pictured: the three or four thousand screws holding it together. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/bd5d169c-03d7-4035-8f19-56bd04dc0d99/25.jpeg Home The cabin illuminated on a very typical foggy gray evening in winter. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/ec0785e7-8267-44b2-8322-9d1d7dfa39d3/26.jpeg Home BUTTS banner welcomes guests to the outhouse. World’s dullest saw also available for impromptu spider battles. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/1d4e6dbf-2068-4069-887c-8cbb2dd933e5/27.jpeg Home Todd in full pretzel mode beneath the cabin to help replace the rotten rim joist. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/91834bf4-1e43-4010-b7a5-e9255fd98d6f/28.jpeg Home Preparing a classic cabin breakfast of leftover rib eye steak bits and dehydrated hash browns. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/f1d3b25d-effb-4249-8ae4-492a5afbade9/29.jpeg Home Slicing up plywood for something or other. Captured just moments before the kickstand sank into the gravel and the bike toppled over. (Credit: Kate Palmer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/9d9368c6-b849-4367-838c-c1dd71723782/30.jpeg Home Kellen, Matt, and I amid the chaos of full roof replacement. (Credit: Kate Palmer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/1f7860ff-04ab-4142-8fdb-df728d7e7ad0/31.jpeg Home The cabin with its fresh roof, glowing in the dim twilight. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/6726ad32-03f7-4ebd-9d1e-d34f1db815c6/32.jpeg Home The finished exterior with fresh paint, stain, new shingles, lantern hook, boot scraper, and new roof. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/9612b1e5-8da9-4d1f-9a61-7d6b8ddf3e13/33.jpeg Home The patchwork ceiling of sistered joists and salvaged wood, crisscrossed with Christmas lights, pans, and lanterns. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/1cd0be4b-4320-4a33-97c2-c58357378a36/34.jpeg Home The shelf above the futon, where pancake mix, syrup, books, pu-erh tea, and incense were stored. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/19507924-7dd0-4949-8d95-05ceed756529/35.jpeg Home Me on a snowy evening, all lights aglow, woodstove roaring nearby. A perfect night. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/4c1e2ff3-b0bf-4716-826d-e95de2223607/36.jpeg Home A fresh dumping of snow after the trees came down and the new roof was added. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67670e04733ba34f03a06513/03178ed7-2b0f-43c3-92a9-2f77f3ba9408/37.jpeg Home The road out of the Riversites on a beautiful autumn day. (Credit: Patrick Hutchison)