Timberline Lodge!

 Hiya Blog World. Little Fox here.  Today, I'm taking my pal Sandy on the abbreviated tour of Timberline lodge. As you can see, Sandy is posing in front of Timberline Lodge, built from 1936 to 38 by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members and designed by the same architect who did the Ahwanhee Hotel in Yosemite. 

My goodness, if these walls could talk.  Built in the late 30s this lodge has been through a lot of history.  Still an operating hotel ($210.00 for tonight), it features a  nice restaurant, and a super bar with some local craft brews.  Cool furniture too.  This chair is what I envision old webbing to be like.

So many fun things to do here.  The hotel is a stop along the Pacific Coast Trail (PCT) so a few days in mid August the patio, restaurant and lobby is full of through hikers taking a needed rest, charging devices and playing games.  I wish we had more time to play a round of shuffleboard.

The lodge was not only built by the CCC crews and they were pretty resourceful.  Most of the things in this picture were reused or dare I say  upcycled (I want to stay on top of the current lingo).  The grates to the fireplace grill were tire chains in a previous life but thanks to the CCC they fashioned a safe fireplace grate.

The thingy's  to the right of Sandy were....wait for it.....yep reused rail tracks fashioned into a decorative andiron (the thing you put the wood on in a fireplace....thanks google). 

Sandy really likes this chair (he guesses it was also upcycled back in the day).

Timberline lodge has been in the movies.  

Did you ever see the Shining?  If so, you might recognize the exterior of the Timberline Lodge as the Grand Overlook Hotel in the Shining.

Let's see if we can get a better view.  I think this is good.  You see the balcony up there with all the flags? 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself stood up there as he dedicated Timberline Lodge in 1937. 

Kudos to the maintenance staff, they have kept Timberline in tip-top shape all of these years. 

Time to head back to town.  On the way I saw this sign and knew I needed my picture in front of it.