This is interesting. My cabin lies nestled in a notch valley just west of the Continental Divide, within 10 miles of the Scapegoat Wilderness. There is only one road in, and the valley is surrounded by Forest Service holdings.
And there is something near
scandalous about the cabin’s location: it resides in a cellphone dead zone.
Yet, weirdly enough, I have, in
addition to a landline, fast fiber internet service—thanks to Lincoln Telephone
Company.
I broke ground on construction for
the cabin in the early summer of 2003. A couple of days ago, a friend of mine
finally installed the kitchen cabinets. I gave him a set of keys to get through
the gate and into the cabin and told him he’d need to use the landline to reach
me if he had any issues.
He called me with an issue as soon as
he arrived at the cabin: “Mitch, I need your internet password so I can listen
to music.”
Thankfully, I managed to get him
connected. And after a long day, he and his son completed the cabinet
installation. That’s how things work in this modern, remote wilderness.
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—Mitchell Hegman
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