Mammoth Challenges

Water
Future Mammoth residents are limited to buying an existing cabin or building on an existing foundation.  This is largely due to water shortage.  Most Mammoth residents get their water by going to a water source in Eureka, shown below.  Virtually every home has a truck with a tank.

Wildlife
Although we find the wildlife (deer, rabbits) a positive feature, they can be a challenge to growing anything.

 We found these volunteer tulips a cheerful site next to our foundation.

 We think it was a rabbit who thought it would make a good lunch.

 A senior citizen was honored at a senior citizen luncheon with twelve yellow crookneck squash plants.  She wisely offered to share with any takers.

Although this will only be a temporary deterrent, we'll see if it will keep the wildlife out until another solution is found.

Well, the animals didn't get my plant but the frost did.

The wind
We built a cover over the existing basement to protect some things stored there.

 This was a short-lived solution.  utahweather.org reports the highest wind recorded for Eureka is 90 miles per hour.  A local tells us that they had a wind clocked at 135 mph.  At any rate, no plastic covering is going to survive even Mammoth's milder winds.  It comes from the west and whips up the valley.  We're going to have to tie down our house and roof really well if we don't want to find it up the hill.