After Roddy's first birthday celebration at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, we drove north to Brian's Head, Utah to stay in a yurt. We went "glamping."
If you don't know what a yurt is: A traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises an angled assembly or latticework of pieces of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs (poles, rafters), and a wheel (crown, compression ring) possibly steam-bent. The roof structure is often self-supporting, but large yurts may have interior posts supporting the crown. The top of the wall of self-supporting yurts is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs.
The glamping yurt we went to Summit Mountain Lodge. It was beautiful, located at the end of a winding, hilly, dirt road that requires visitors to use a high clearance vehicle in the summer and a SnowCat in the winter. It’s tucked far from anything and is blanketed with a thick black blanket of stars at night. And it is quiet. Sitting back in the woods, both the main lodge and the yurts are sheltered from any sort of standard city sounds. We met one of the owners when we arrived, she gave us keys and told us about Thunder the Deer.
We were the only people staying there, which was a bit eerie, but meant we could walk around naked and climb on things without getting caught.
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