Gold Lake Shelter

We stayed overnight on 1/27/18 and had a marvelous experience. Very grateful to the volunteers who stock the firewood! There was a splitting axe at the shelter, too. Once we got a fire going, we put kindling on the top of the woodstove to dry it out, because although it's out of the snow and not "wet," it's very green and difficult to make fire with. Please understand that I'm not looking at the gift-horse's teeth ... I'm just saying that you'll want LOTS of firestarter and if you can pay it forward to the next people by leaving them some dried-out kindling, that's nice.

The snow was 24" deep when we got there, but then it was warming up as we were leaving so no promises.

PS. My favorite firestarter is waxed-cardboard...the kind that they make grocery-store broccoli boxes out of. Normally it just takes me a piece the size of a poker card to get a fire lit, but with the green wood I used more than 8x11" of the stuff and I was glad I'd brought so much.