Well, today is Saturday of a three-day weekend. My plan was to head to the Beta Site today but a project went into overtime, so it’s gonna have to be tomorrow.

Im working on a deck for up there to give me some space off the ground to put a tent, or just a couple chairs. I’m building two 4’x8′ “decks” that will sit on concrete deck blocks. Just some eight foot 2×6 covered with wooden decking. I’ll bolt them together side-by-side and that should give me an 8’x8′ platform. And, once I no longer need it, the two 4×8 decks will wind up becoming footbridges over the creek.

Assembly took longer than planned so I’ll be leaving tomorrow in the morning.

A buddy of mine came by and we were chatting about the Beta Site and I mentioned that I was going to, at some point, get StarLink for up there. He mentioned that his experience with it was positive. I told him I had no idea he had StarLink. He said he’d bought it a few months back, and then proceeded to pull a Pelican case with the whole setup contained within from  his truck. Well,  nothing accelerates my desire for something like getting to actually handle and examine the tangible goods. I knew I wanted to get StarLink for up there and now that I’ve gotten to see it up close I just need to open a new browser tab and order the thing. I’ve run the math and decided that if I move some money around into a fund specifically for StarLink subscription, I can have my dividends pay off the subscription fee meaning it won’t be an out-of-pocket expense…I’ll just use dividend and interest revenue to cover the $55/month fee.

Among other things tomorrow is hitting the Montana cadastral for approximate locations of  where the corners of the property are, snagging the GPS coords, and going to see if I can find the actual corners. Last trips adventure showed me where three of the four are supposed to be.

And, finally, I’ve a friend with a goodly amount of experience driving logging trucks and pretty much anything else that eats diesel and winds through the woods. He’s off the opinion that we can get a small trackhoe up there without too much difficutly (assuming he’s doing the driving.) If thats the case, then its time to mark out where I want the holes dug for the polytanks I’ve got in the queue.

So, of to the Beta Site tomorrow. Details and pics when I get back.