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Question 2: what do I want to DO at the Falls

Camp in the campground on tent platforms or stay in one of the several shipping container cabins
Fish
Family reunions
Family campfires in/on/ around the amphitheater
Have a music festival
Have a talent show
Have a big outdoor screen to show family videos on
Canoe or go rafting off a seasonal /portable dock
Store my raft or canoe in a boat house made out of a shipping container situated below the amphitheater or by the first trail
Eat in a big dining hall that will seat 100 people with solar power to eat at made from shipping containers that overlooks the river at the 1 acre spot at the end of the fish hook
A grill a big grill
Go on a picnic and eat at the picnic tables in the 1 acre spot by the dining hall in a little park like setting
Have a nice compost toilet to go potty in the dining hall
Shower with a solar powered water heater in the dining hall
Have water to drink from a water fountain by the fire pit by the amphitheater
Have a nice 2 seater outhouse set off but near the amphitheater
Have a safe place to park and turn the car around by widening the dirt road at the North or sloped side between the fishing trail and the fishhook
Have a baseball diamond by the Falls road and play ball
Have a Frisbee or disk golf course with a disk-net
Have a volleyball court by the dining hall
Play basketball in a half basketball court spot
Have a hop scotch spot
Have a zip line start on top of Amy’s knoll to the top of the hill and back also from the top of the hill to the dining hall to the campground ending at the amphitheater return the back to the top of the hill zip-line
Build a rock climbing wall on the rock wall by the amphitheatre with climbing harnesses, helmets, safety gear
Swings big and little
Have a climbing course for little kids
Go hiking or biking on trails throughout the 84 acres

What did I miss?
Janice
Secret trail to a secret meadow to the artesian well
Outdoor squash court by the baseball diamond or the dining hall
a fenced in area for the dogs to be at night
I think the shipping container idea is pretty good for storing things, but I'm not so sure that would fit in very well in the surroundings. I think we should have a lodge-type structure where we all could gather underneath one roof. The structure would have an woodsy outdoor-sy lodge feel

I think the best place for a baseball field would be in the triangular easement area across the street from Dad’s place. Refer to the figure that Amy sent out with her initial email. This is a 10 acre "lot" and it is very flat. The LLC owns it, although I am not authorized to throw it out on the table. One option would be for the Family Association to offer to buy it from the CFLLC. Now you have 20 acres that would belong to the Family Association. You would have two different parcels, each with a different fell and purpose. One is private and secluded and the other is in the open and is available for bigger, more inclusive gatherings.

Century old Barn and Houses
Tree house or ewok house as part of the zip lines

http://www.tamarackidaho.com/about/index.php click on the 'about' tab and then click on the forth picture which is about the zipline

...after I went to this web site and sent the zip line video to you all I went back and read the unbelievable part that this beautiful and huge resort had gone the way of this recession... bankrupt. We can take many lessons from this; How to build a zip line and how to not over extend ourselves in our family adventure.
We ought to think out of the box and see what cash we have. IE. What If each family put in $1000, into the family fund and that could be our seed money to build from. Right now we have nothing in the bank.

To match our dreams with reality we need to be creative. IE; we need to have a way of securing whatever we place in the area. Like, a strong secure place like from trees falling during a storm on our cabins, or other people entering our lands and messing with whatever they find.
If we used steel shipping container box and then added a log veneer and a pitched roof to make it look like a little log cabin, then we could bolt it safe and it might be a big savings in cash and number of logs needed. We could put up several wee cabins.

Maybe we could build a barn as the lodge

I like the idea of the land under the high wires across from Mom and Dad's place for the ball and squash b-ball, park

With so many having dogs, maybe a fenced in area for the dogs to be at night? KENNEL
Colleen MacDonald - Realtor