TIMELAPSE - MAN BUILDS OFF GRID CABIN (In Alaska)
This video is special to me, because it is one of my earliest. I shot it about a year before starting this channel. Most of the footage was taken using an I Phone 8, and I have been hesitant to release it because the quality is not the greatest. But after some consideration, I have decided to put it out there. The setting for this little place is spectacular and too pretty to keep to myself.
The cabin is located high up in a mountain pass, way above timberline. The country is alpine. There are a number of glaciers in the surrounding mountains, one you can see from the back porch of the cabin. The lake in front of the cabin is a bit of an illusion. The cabin sits on the edge of a bluff, about 150 feet above the water. The lake is actually several miles long. I started work on this project in early August, when the blueberries were just ready to pick, and finished it in January of the same year.
Enjoy!
Oh, and this video is also my first time lapse - Let me know how you like it.
The teenage boys took me back to my 5 brothers and my youth. Thank you. 💚💚💚
You are welcome Chuckles! It was a good summer with the boys
What started out as a surprise KZhead sent to my "inbox" is now one of my favorites. You, the wife, the dog....together you make a good day when I see a new video is up....
I love the twinkle in the stars at the end of the video. It may only be an affect from recording the video, but it still makes it look cool.
Wonderful!
Hi Gail Tanya Stella that cabin is so beautiful love you guys 💞
It is very pleasurable to re-visit this building. You are a wonderful person with a beautiful family.
good choice to release it. pleasure to watch your skills. 🇨🇦
This is MY favorite channel… especially the episodes with the grandson!!!
Thank you!
Neat that you recorded this prior to starting this channel.
It’s no wonder you accomplish so much, Gale. You move like the wind, dude!😄🙃
I just wanted to say how much my wife and I enjoy watching you videos that we are able to cast to our flat screen TV. The quality of your work and your editing is much appreciated. There is one thing that puzzles us. Its a bit difficult for us as subscribers to understand what property you are working on. Location is none of anyone's business, but possibly one of your sit down chats you could amplify the purpose of each of your builds. We especially love to see you and your wife's team work and the involvement of your explaining to your grandson what you are doing, why you are doing it and letting him help. I am in my late 70's and have built 5 houses and 1 cedar log cabin on a cliff 300 ft. about a beautiful lake in Ontario. I am too old to do any more projects, but your close to this video of your sitting in a chair with a steaming cup of coffee was epic! It's the journey that gives us the joy......but the coffee complete it. Thank You Paul from West Michigan
Awesome.....what a great feeling when you get back to a place with great memories after a long time , I can imagine that.......peace upon you guys
Love the look back in time. I started watching the channel when you were building the shower house. Peace from Arkansas and thanks again.
Thanks so much David. I am glad you enjoyed this video. I have wanted to release this for some time now. It is the only documentation I have of the sauna build. It is one of my earliest videos
Haha sir you tried to give us those survival builder's feel here. But of course you are a million times better than them and more importantly is real. Love watching you as always!
I could actually see the stars in the sky. That was breathtaking.
Watching... It looks like a nice day in Alaska, not so cold...🥶 Hi to Stella Bella!
you are so inspiring. I love watching your videos. they are amazing .
I love the video! The hard thing for me is to keep track of all the cabins! These videos illustrate how beautiful the country is during all of the seasons. I also appreciate your skill and efficiency building. I see many Larry Haun attributes when you do layouts and swing the hammer.
There they are!!! My favorite Alaskans!!! I love receiving notifications that you've posted another video!!! Let's see what you get up to this time!!! Much Much Love!!! ❤️
Loved the panoramic shot of the mountains and sky, and at the end, that beautiful night sky backdrop. What a beautiful place you live in. Oliver & Monica Tasmania
Thank you Oliver and Monica! It is great to hear from Tasmania. Much love to you both
Ohhhh Dios que paisajes tan hermosos saludos desde PUERTO RICO
So glad you chose to share. Two videos in one day, over the moon with joy... Alaska is so beautiful and the cabin is awesome and with that view breath taking. Peace & Joy
Beautiful cabin. You never stop working, you are an incredible worker my friend, and you make a very good job. It's an idyllic place, there is no doubt about that. You're lucky, I know. A hug friend and a cordial greeting from Spain
Loved this retrospective and hadn't seen anything of this previously of course. I can see the love of the ALaskan environment coming out even in the way you replaced the turf beside the wooden foundation pads - and your attention to recycling by using those reclaimed boards. Great to see the process and your fantastic attention to detail but also how you've changed in terms of the materials used. Thanks for posting - I enjoyed my weekly fix. And in company with a very young Stella and an ageless Tanya. Many thanks.
Wow! That was amazing! What a gifted carpenter/craftsman you truly are. What can't you build!!?? 😃
A big greeting full of love, I loved this video, it's beautiful, it reminds me a year ago when I started watching your videos, and a family relationship with you and your beautiful family has been created, thanks for sharing, a hug from India , here the torrid summer has already begun, so here we are gratefully enjoying the air conditioning. A big hug full of PEACE for all humanity. THANK YOU
Impressive and enviable the way to buid the cabin and the wonderful place where you buil it, I hope you continue to enjoy it yet. Greetings from Colombia
Wonderful view, can understand your need of a cabin to enjoy it. Loved the time lapse!
Wow! The scenery is breath taking. Such a beautiful place. Glad you shared this with us. When we first found your channel, you were building the rails on the cabin...doing interior finish work...and starting on the spa. I remember the first time we saw Tanya was here. We always enjoyed watching, right down to the cup of coffee on the porch at the end of the day.
The bugs are not optional Amigo.
Good morning. Sitting at work and was not expecting to see this video come up. Very cool!! Those views you initially show are what amazed me when we were there in March. Incredibly beautiful! I hope you all have a great and blessed weekend. Pete
Fun seeing the beginning of this one. I think the best part was the sunrise for me. Blessings to you all. 🙂
Good morning my friend. So glad you liked the Sunrise
Very cool video. Working in that environment has to be, well so many things, but just quite an experience.
That starry night was stunning at the end of the episode. To be honest, I never saw such a dark night sky with shinning stars. Felt like heaven indeed. Thank you so much my friend!
Wow, Gale! You are truly the most masterful and hard working builder I've ever seen!! Beautiful location, beautiful work! Dig the time lapse. Thank You for sharing.
Davvero sorprendente e lavoro eccezionale! Un posto unico ed affascinante, complimenti sinceri!
Love watching your builds,love seeing your wife working with you, and of course Stella love watching how special she is,we have a boxer and love her dearly she’s our baby who is 5 years old. Miss seeing your grandson who was with you a few times. Look forward too watching every episode you put out. Stay warm
Gale, great decision on posting this video as by the time I by chance stumbled on your channel you had already completed most of buildings on this location.Your videos are all precious to me also as family lived here and we spent many summers/winters with them.I can't begin to remember how many times I buried snow machines on that island,probably why I'm missing discs in lower back and mri coming up next week.Definitely my favorite place to be in Alaska. Peace
Good evening Quentin! This is so great. My wife and I have loved this place for so long now. There is just no other place we would rather live (at least most of the year) I will try to give you some good videos of the summer life here too this season. How long has is been since you have been here?
@@ThisIsMyAlaska Gale,it has been close to 25 yrs.since I was last in the area. I'd be of no help to you this time of the yr-be out riding the sled all day! lol.
I don’t blame you a bit
Wow 🥰 what a view!....Heaven on Earth💫 how wonderful heaving a home in such an environment ❤️
No matter what you build, Gale, it's an amazing experience watching you at work. I have done my share of building and renovating but you are such a natural artist. I applaud you! I got this "poem" from a friend some years back and it seems to fit you: The Worker Whatever the tool, shovel or guitar It is not the work that makes the man But the love he sows in his art. Thank you for sharing with all of us! Regards, Leslie Ann
Is this the start of the cabin we see you working on in the first videos when you started this channel?
The majestic scenery? Spectacular! Video quality? Just fine considering the excellent caliber of your work and beautiful subject matter. Keep the videos coming and, please, LEAD ON!
You did a great job! Thank you for sharing the beauty of your Alaska with us.
Loved it! Thanks for sharing. Another beautiful area in Alaska!
Really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing with us. Best wishes, Deb
That is a beautiful cabin in a beautiful location.
Thanks so much Andy
Just look at those views!😊💛🙏
Love the new videos! It’s so much more fun to watch you build Gil, because you’re the first builder my husband has not spent the entire video criticizing How it’s being built! I guess 45 years of construction work will do that to a person 😉 Bless you and your family.
Really cool to see how you built the lake cabin the view from this cabin is my favorite so far it's breathtaking !! See you next time !!
Hello Gale - I think you and your I Phone 8 did an excellent job with this video. The video quality was great and the content was excellent. Every one of your videos has a very professional feel to it. Your filming, editing and entire presentation has alwaya been very good from the very first video. Extremely glad you started your channel and "This Is My Alaska" is something I look forward to every Friday morning. Thank you for sharing all of your projects with us. Keep up the great work. Stay Safe. See you next Friday. Randy in Arizona.
Thank you Randy. I so appreciate your friendship. You have been such an encouragement to me along the way. See you soon
Very nice job, congrats! Impressive views from your cabin!! I built mine in the middle of the forest and I miss the horizon haha.
I love the way you capture the incredible beauty of the different seasons . It's as if your a filming in totally separate regions . And oh my, those night skies are gloriously surreal!
I loved the video! Seeing the fireweed.....first time I went to Alaska, the fireweed was blooming everywhere and it was sooooo beautiful! The site for the cabin reminds me a little of Hatcher's Pass. Alaska is such a beautiful state. O, the mosquitoes! I've been there when they were swarming too. Your quality of workmanship is beyond words! I admire all your work! Good to see Tanya, Stella, and the others in this video. I love Alaska and enjoy getting to see more of it through your videos. God bless....til next week!
Beautiful video. I remember when I discovered you channel with a video of a beautifull footage of you riding in a your snowmobile in a snow paradise. Thank you for sharing this beauty
I love this cabin, it is wonderful, a jewel
Wow... Always watching you guys from Manila Philippines.
Another beautiful cabin you’ve built, and in such beautiful surroundings, no wonder you have so many fantastic memories there . Alaska is just out of this world .
Enjoyed the video and just loved the setting for the cabin. I bet the fish that come out of that lake taste wonderful. My daughter has asked me several times to come up to Alaska to live with her, But I just don't think my old bones could take that cold weather sadly. I can just live there through your channel lol, Take Care.
Love yall's content! Alaska is just beautiful and you do a great job letting us all experience it with you. It has been on my list of places I want to visit for a long time. Its hard for this 5th generation Texan to image a place any bigger than Texas. It hurts our pride just a little to admit it, but I would sure love to adventure there one day.
Nathan, Alaska has more than double the area of the Republic of Texas. Alaska has more coastline than the entire lower 48 States. There's plenty of elbow room for you in Alaska, my friend.
Not seen this footage before great video, the views look stunning. Great job as always.
I enjoyed this so much, since I am relatively new to your videos, this added some background, and oh my goodness, how breathtakingly beautiful. Thanks for sharing it!
I love it! Informative and educational. Beautiful images of the area. My husband gets cold quickly, otherwise I would be there to enjoy the beautiful nature.
Once again, congratulations for the excellent material shared with us. Beautiful view, inspiring as always! Thank you very much!!
What a fantastic setting & loved seeing your time lapse & what you achieved. It was lovely seeing more of your family, having the help from the young, strong guys at the beginning. Lovely video thanks for releasing it & I thought the filming quality was very good🤗 Ann 🇬🇧
Thanks for sharing! Really enjoy watching your videos.
May be home in August. Love your videos. Hugs from Florida
This was a beautiful time-lapse. The contrast of the blue lake, the green land, and then snow was spectacular. Always look forward to your adventures!
Gale, I love all the videos you do and each one has incredible production value. Sometimes I marvel at how much thought, work, and time must go into each one - and then add to it the fact you publish weekly. It’s mind blowing. I am very grateful to you as I look forward with great anticipation each week to your Friday installments! To answer your question about time lapse… You did a great job with this one and there was instant gratification but… One of the elements of your videos I enjoy immensely is the almost zen-like quality of the slow and steady pace at which your projects evolve. I enjoy learning from your techniques and incorporating them into my own projects. To me, there is nothing better on an early Saturday morning than sipping a warm cup of coffee and watching one of your projects unfold. Thank you for making these videos and brining joy to so many. Peace to YOU my friend!
Thank you so much for your comments and meaningful feedback. My oldest son watched this time lapse with me and said almost exactly then same thing as you did. I will give that a lot of thought going forward. I think there is a place for the time lapse and I enjoy putting them together. Keep sending the feedback. It is greatly appreciated
love this video and of course i love this couple! breathtaking place! watching from Philippines.
Wow you’re really a fast builder. Thank you for another great video.
Awesome view!!! Excellent job. You make it look so easy, I know it's not. It's so beautiful in your part of the world. The star, night sky visibility is possible because of the lack of light pollution over there. How fortunate you are to have that and thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you Carolina. I have always thought that being up here in the mountains at night had to be similar to being out on the ocean. The absence of trees make the sky seem so vast. And it gets so dark that the sky overhead has enormous depth. You can see stars beyond the stars, and on and on. Thanks for being part of our lives here
Thank you for the amazing montage! The vista is the most incredible part of the cabin, it is no wonder why you are often shown gazing at the spectacular creation example that is Alaska. I also appreciated so much your attention to detail and purposeful commitment when you immediately replaced the ground cover once the footings were in place. My youngest son (24 y/o) watched this with me to see why I enjoy your videos so much. He was impressed and pleased with the strategic use of the Caribou antler shed and then loved the use of the moose skull cap as front facia decoration. As always - well done!
Thank you Steve. All the summer scenes in this video were shot with my old iPhone 8, about a year before I started this channel. I did not release this footage until now, because I was unhappy with the quality of it. But it tells the story of this little sauna so in the end I decided to just let it go. Thanks so much for watching. Also, tell you son hello from me and I am glad he enjoyed it as well
You are such a talented man. It’s beautiful 👏👏👏👏
You always amazing me. Summer days ahead.
It simply amazes me how great your talent is!! Your tools and equipment and lumber and so forth is worth million lol or more!! Not including your land and all!!
Thanks so much Janet. I am so pleased you are enjoying these videos. It means the world to me
Your welcome yes I enjoy them every week and enjoy watching you and your wife !!
I love seeing this. It is foundational. It reminds me again of the great beauty surrounding and the beauty of simple tools in the hands of a master. With knowledge and patience you create great things. Your story telling through video is not the least of those. I was lucky to find your channel quite a while ago now. I only have home repair skills but those are enough to admire your work and also envy the quality of all the lumber. Thank you for what must be constant work to release a video every week.
Thank you so much Steven. I appreciate your friendship. It means so much to me. Some of the materials on this cabin were old salvaged boards, such as the wrap around deck. They were 20 year old concrete forms. Some materials were new, and some were cut and resawn right from the woods. It was a fun build. Thanks again for watching
I love your videos so much I was hoping to get your permission to record them all to dvd so I can do viewing marathons of your video's at my off grid cabin, I don't get internet or have on grid ele. but I do have a solar system I instaled which suits me well, I real like how the two of you work well with each other and engage the whole family at times its very heart warming to see and me at 63 I think I have seen it all but realize that's not always the case seeing your video's has opened my mind to new things when coming to building and just living in the rough anyway thank you for sharing your lives with the world.
Fascinating view👍
Looks great to me! Thanks very much for sharing.
What an incredible view!!! Nice to have some youth around; someone you can share your skills with.
I'm a huge fan of antlers, I've actually had a couple turned into walking sticks for me
Jackpot Friday for me ! 2 videos ! I remember watching you build the sauna. Minus the help in the videos I recall though. Was definitely one of the earlier videos that I remember watching. You doing the work in the cabin second floor was around that time too. Igloo video. I can’t even remember the grocery list yet somehow I remember your older videos. Lol. Take care Gale ✌️
Hey Gale, I gotta say, this cabin is my favorite out of all the cabins, it's small, simple and in a beautiful place. I will say one thing, not only are you an excellent builder but, fast also, lol. Nice touch adding the shedds to the video. Loved seeing Tanya in the video. Thanks for sharing.
Amei a retrospectiva tanto quanto o primeiro vídeo 😍..Gale que surpresa boa você nos deu!! Tivemos a oportunidade de rever e confirmar o que já sabemos, você e sua amada família estão no Paraíso! Obrigada mais uma vez por compartilhar, nos deixar participar e nos fazer sentir que por alguns momentos também fazemos parte dessa família!! Gratidão 🙏🇧🇷
Thank you Sandra. This was one of the very first videos I made. It was almost entirely shot with an IPhone 8. I have not wanted to release it because the quality is not great. But I decided to share it out because it gives the history of the sauna build from the beginning.
such a beautiful house with gorgeous view.
Thanks for sharing the Sauna cabin. I think I saw some new videos parts I missed. I will never understand how you can work without gloves. I know they are a pain. But i can't even pick up a piece of firewood for my stove without a splinter. Beautiful place.
You work faster than me… haha
Such beautiful skillfull work as always.
Thank you Ginger. That means so much!
Wow, your videos are ultra hi definition.
I love it your amazing at what you do awesome job 👏🏻
Absolutely awesome !!!! Those twinkling stars were so beautiful. .....I had to watch that part of the video several times. I am really happy that you released this video for our enjoyment. I think that, even though the video is an example of your early work it shows that you have a natural ability for videography. You are very skilled when it comes to creating...............And I LOVE the tall handsome man walking barefoot on the planks.
Amazing.. well done...
Great video Gale...
Hello.... Got time to watch your video and respond to it after a long time. I always admired the beauty of nature in your videos and named my newborn baby girl as Alaska. Now we are so much connected with the beautiful name Alaska. Love from India ❤️.
Haha👍
I assume that was your grandkids and son/ son in law helping with the build Gale? Some wonderful memories for all of you in that video, thank you for releasing it
Hello Scott. Yes, those were children and grandchildren. The older man was my son. Thanks so much for watching. Peace
Well done.
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What an awesome View and the surrounding is absolutely breathtaking talk about Mother Nature at its best and it was an interesting video with the time lapse if my opinion means anything it was excellent I enjoyed it and please keep the videos coming thumbs up on it
It looks like you live in heaven!!❤️
I am no builder but am wondering how those footers are stable enough. The ground must be pretty solid.
Great Video! Thanks for sharing.