I couldn’t tell you what year it was, but it was in the early 1960’s.  We lived on Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage Alaska.  Summers we went to King’s Lake and stayed at an old homestead cabin for a few weeks.  We also spent another week or two at the church camp across the lake.

      The homestead cabin had no running water except for what you could pump using the old hand pump.  No toilets, you had to walk back to the outhouse and watch out for bears and other wild critters on the way.  The stove, an old wood burner, made for some interesting meals.

     When our paternal Grandfather came for a visit, I think he really enjoyed ‘roughing it’ at the lake. That’s him in the pictures.