Setting up camp the first day is always a chore, especially when you have a big front gate. We did most of the building well before Pennsic. We hope to add onto it in years to come. Please note, these photos are NOT proof that I didn't work the first day!

Brutus, our construction manager.

Building the gate: Rivers, Gus, D, Bruce, Skippit, Mia, Tarlung, Jareth, Christoph, Tananda, Barry, Paws, Sacha.

Building the gate.

Building the gate.

Bruce & Walter put a brace on the back of the gate.

Rivers, Sacha and D put a brace on the back of the gate.

The gate is up! Christoph, D, Cutter, Tananda.

It was dark before we got the doors up. Rivers, Brutus, Sacha, Gus.

New gate photo op.

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