Sheepshead Cabin
Up on Wolf Creek Pass in southern Colorado, a cabin built by lifelong snowboarders offers a secluded home base for adventurous backcountry riders. The Rapp brothers and their DIY dream.
As children we made forts and shacks and tarp tepees. They were an extension of one’s wonder and imagination, a claim to a place and an area—a dream world.
As snowboarders, our true home is in the mountains. It’s in the trillions of hexagonal snow crystals and the wind drifts where they collect. It’s in the rock and in the trees. It’s shared with other creatures. To truly live here is tough work—it’s a harsh way of life known by hardened pioneers from generations past.
This is a tale of life on the edge—of a pair of brothers’ private outpost on the brink of the vast San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado. Of the creation of two snowboarders’ own DIY dream world…