by Winston | Dec 12, 2018 | Alumni, Stories by Winston
She’s going to go! In the mid 1980’s, a high school work group from First Presbyterian Church, in Boulder, CO, came to Sonlight. They built us a 3 sided fence (8 feet high) to hide junk behind so the guests would not see it. The following summer, they came back...
by Winston | Dec 5, 2018 | Alumni, Stories by Winston
How do you cut the angle of a rafter? We were going to construct our first real building (more than our shed). A bath house, really, as showers were important after a week of backpacking in the wilderness. Mr. Lauser, from my childhood, offered to teach Mary and...
by Winston | Dec 5, 2018 | Alumni, December 2018, Stories by Winston
The Snow Bound Rescue of the GMC PickupThe first winter that Sonlight Camp had a new shop was a very deep snow year. It was nice to keep the 1965 GMC truck with our 8 foot snow plow inside the building, facing out and ready to go plow the parking lots and Sonlight...
by Winston | Dec 3, 2018 | Alumni, Stories by Winston
One Hot CheckMary and I had finished a summer of backpacking in Colorado with church youth groups from across the USA. We wanted to buy one acre of land for a base camp with a shed to store our equipment over the winter. We loved our jobs at Vail ski resort. Mary as...
by Winston | Dec 1, 2018 | Alumni, Stories by Winston
The Rec ShedIn April of 1983, Mary and I “stopped by” our newly acquired 40 acres in Southwest Colorado. It was mud season from all the deep winter snows melting. On the Hidden Valley ranch road, we were stopped at the creek where a chain was across the road. We...
