Smap, Ippon and I drove up to our beautiful property on Norris yesterday. Our good friends Chuck and Peggy rode up via waverunner. Smap and I have had this property now for @ 5 years. Just in the last couple of years we have built this killer deck overlooking the cove.
Prior to having our deck, we would just sit behind the big tree in the area where the deck is now standing. The property is so steep, so we would race up to the one flat spot to sit.
**Here is the Grant family (above)...predeck....this is an old shot I decided to pull out of our files.**Building this moster of a deck was a tough job. Smap and Chuck lugged the bags of concrete down (a tough hike...Chuck says he only carried 2 of the 80 lb bags). Anyway, just hiking up and down to where we have to park is hard enough without carrying anything at all.
Smap and Chuck finally decided on a deck plan (Chuck is a top architect and second in command at Michael Brady...an architect firm here in K-town), so we began getting the wood down one fall. We had a large assembly line at hand to throw the huge planks of wood down the side of the land to where we were building our deck. Chuck, Peg, their daughter Nicole, Skinny D, Monte, Tim and Lindsay were all at hand to help with the arduous and dangerous task of getting the wood safely down. It was worth it though because we now have the perfect place to hang overlooking a beautiful cove up on Lake Norris. The water this year is breathtaking for its clarity and pureness. Ippon loves to just walk down and swim around the cove.
These rocks are on part of our trail down to our deck. It is a fun STEEP hike.
Smap decided the deck needed some places to hold beers, so he came up with the ingenious idea of using old bottle cages and bottles to sit your beer bottles in. He also uses old beer bottles as citronella candles. 
I am attempting to show the trail and the landscape as I hike down to the deck here...
Happy Dog enjoying his water...
Enough for now. Time to ride!
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