new yurt: molly wall

We decided we needed to upgrade our yurt so it would hold the snow load (4 feet last winter), so we started to build a new (hard-sided) one--while we were still living in the old one. We cut down and stripped some pine poles, painted their ends and sunk them 2 feet in cement, then put up a 6" stem wall all around the outer edge. The boys (and their friends) were very helpful with this part--the poles and the cement were very heavy. We had to build a gabion wall between the posts at the back, since it was two feet lower than the front.

When we got far enoug along, we had to "raise the roof" so the poles would fit in place.

Eventually had to take the old yurt down completely so we could work on the new hard-sided yurt.

This is the back view.