We Bought a 60-Acre Off-Grid Mountain Ranch (Full Tour)

So we just bought an insane off-grid 60-acre property in Washington. It's unique. There's definitely some weirdness going on. A lot of the structures are totally out there, but we're going to show them to you. We're going to take you for a quick walk. First structure, we've got the main cabin here. This is the only living facility on the property while Kicker takes a poop. Good job buddy. Oh buddy, right on camera. I think this started as a single bedroom cabin, then they added wings. It's currently a three bed, two bath that also has a detached garage. We've got some overgrown weeds and stuff, but super cool. There's always a bunch of like butterflies and bees and cool stuff hanging out in here. I actually love this whole setup. Don't have drinking water currently because our water tank situation is an absolute breeding ground for rodents and rats and dead animals and fibroblasts. It's horrible, horrible. Been the worst job so far. So we are filling our water jugs from this tank. We've got this beautiful garage to car. The outside structures are really cute. Everything is a very nice cabin chic, which I love honestly. The facades are, you know, you pull up, you see them, you're like, okay, I'm definitely in the wilderness on a ranch. So everything is facade, but we have nice metal roofs on every structure, which is pretty desirable, especially going into the winter. We're getting a lot of snow here. A lot of snow, a lot of snow coming our way. We're also three miles down an unplowed road, so I'm going to have to learn to plow. I've never plowed before other than Sophia. This is one of my favorite features, oddly enough, is this wood gazebo that's in here. It just looks, the way that it sits in the pine trees, it just has this like very cute mystical fairy look. It's right at the edge, so just on the other side of the gazebo is National Forest. So sitting in here, you literally just feel like you're completely ensconced in wilderness. If you come in, it's super burly. It's just, even the roof structures, it's just built out. It looks really nice. I love the pines in the back. They put this lava rock kind of situated upright as almost like a big flower bed. It's definitely been left unattended too, so I think this will be potentially a spring project, but we just rip all of this out in front in front of the lava rock and just create some really whimsical willowy flowing plants, leaves, all of that stuff, flowers that are kind of perennial. That's the vision for this is to turn it into a cute little fairy gazebo. All right, and this is one of my favorite features by the cabin. It's this giant stone picnic table surrounded in the trees, super beautiful. We've got the cabin in the background with the parking structure, so we spend a lot of time out here hanging out, entertaining, eating dinner. Yeah. It's right off of the cabin, so you walk out right from the pizza oven, the grill, and this is where you kind of set up, and it's huge. I don't know if the photos capture it. It's huge. We're gonna have total feast out here. So I think one of the coolest things about this property is that it is surrounded on three sides by 1.3 million acres of National Forest. Right through that gate is National Forest. We've walked some of the trails, and it accesses some super cool parts of the forest, which then brings us to this thing. And then we have the pavilion. This thing is insane. These trees are huge. It's just like so overbuilt, so insane, really totally wild structure. There's no reason to build this structure. I don't know a regular person that would build this today. This was just a crazy feature on this property. It's something that really caught us off guard and took us by surprise, but it's kind of a centerpiece. Yeah, look. You can see just how big these are. The scale is really hard to show. It probably goes, I don't know, four or five car lengths back. Yeah. Then we've got Josh's trailer here. He's helping us on the project. And yeah, there's just so many cool features and details to this property that it's hard to do justice because it's so unique and so cool. So around the cabin, there is this sort of turnaround, and it has a little fire pit area in the center with some fairy lights and all that other cool stuff. Still, everything needs to be cleaned up. And another feature that's also hard to do justice are these giant basalt columns that can be found kind of everywhere on the property, along the driveway, by the picnic table. They're all along the drive on the front. It's pretty special. I think when we light those up and you come through a lit driveway, it'll be awesome. A detail on this property is that it sat vacant for over five years. The previous owners, there's some crazy story back there that we're not going to talk about just yet, but there's some weirdness that happened that is one of the reasons why we're able to afford this property just barely. And we'll see for how long. Hopefully we can pull it off, but it's super cool. It's a unique space. It's off grid. It's 60 acres. It's in a small town, but it definitely attracts the right type of buyer, but this is not an estate that most people would be able to deal with. And I think that's why we were able to afford it, is we have to bring all these systems back online. Yeah. The water system's down. The electrical system's down. We need to bring solar online. There's a lot. There's a lot to do. But anyways, here's one of the, there's so many cool structures on this property. So we've got what we're calling the Barn Dominium. This amazing, huge, beautiful barn shop. There's no water in it yet. This door just slides all the way up, opens into the full interior entryway of the Barn Dominium. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool in there. We're going to do a full tour video of all this inside the structures here coming up. So make sure to follow, like, subscribe, turn on notifications, all that stuff, because we're going to be sharing the whole process of bringing this amazing 60 acre property back to life from the dead. Yeah. We want to take you along for the ride. So just across from the Barn Dominium, we have what we're calling our main shop. This is where we're going to put our tools, workstation. And then eventually the plan is to do what's called, what I'm calling the Van Life Waypost. Basically a communal shop for van lifers, that if they have something that they need to fix or want to build or start fresh, they'll have access to a highly functional shop that's fully built out, you know, from welding to woodworking to electrical systems, all that stuff. First, we need to get some batteries for this place because the battery and solar system is like totally shot. And then there is still another shop. I ran out of space in my two car garage. So then I proposed, Sophia was like, hey, we're out of space. It just makes sense that we buy 60 acres with three shops on it. It's the only reasonable next step, right? And all, all the shops have shops, which is my favorite part. Every structure has an adjoining structure. So in the back of shop one, there's also a double pull through garage where we'll pull snowmobiles in the winter. And a root cellar, bomb shelter, that's a shipping container built into the hillside. Totally nuts. Totally weird. Look at all the wildfires here. Look at these ones, baby, a blue one. That's nice. There's some yellows over there. Okay. Now we're at shop three, which I think is where we're going to store vehicles and just recreational gear and stuff that we're not using on the daily. On the backside of this, there is a freezer truck trailer that they were using as a meat locker for hunting and all that stuff. But I'm not sure when we'll get to that level. I don't know if we ever will, but that's a system that we'll get brought online a couple of years from now, probably. This lean-to is off of shop two and everything is just, again, it needs, it needs some TLC, but if you look at it, everything is just so overbuilt. Josh calls it bulletproof. There's so many different structural supports in here. So can't wait to bring all of these back online. There's some hay bale storage in there now. Maybe we'll have a few ranch animals here shortly. Through here, it's hard to see, but there's a crazy watchtower, sniper tower, zombie apocalypse, don't take your guns, government thing. We'll show you here in a second. But before that, we've got a nice trash pile. Look at all these flowers. Like this is so cool to hear all the bees buzzing. Behind us is one of the more bizarre parts of the property. There's just a ton of weird trash from guardrails to extruded metal to a refrigerator to mattress springs and garden tools and pots and pans that seem fine. Apparently between the last, the guy that built this place and the person he sold to, there was allegedly, I mean, there was like a big confrontation and I don't know what happened, but some stuff got repoed. And then it seems like a lot of this other stuff has just been trashed and burnt on purpose to, I don't know. I don't know exactly what happened here, but it tells a weird story. Like there's a snowblower in there. There's all kinds of stuff. So the hope is eventually to maybe take this pile of trash and build an art structure from it or something, or reuse as much of this as we can and integrate it into the property in some capacity. So fun future us project, future us problem, but also very bizarre and unfortunate that this beautiful piece of land here they used as a dump in a pretty disrespectful way, but it's part of it. You know, there's potential in all good things, I think. There's definitely potential to turn this into a good thing with enough elbow grease and imagination. So for one of the more bizarre structures is this watchtower on this massive tree. This is, I think, the biggest tree that was on the property, and they cut the top of it off and turned it into a, I don't know, a tree stand maybe? Really interesting, really bizarre. It's cool up there. It's also pretty sketchy. But yeah, there is so many unique features of this property. I am like a kid in a candy store. Like I feel like my 12-year-old self and now my 37-year-old self, my imagination is just exploding with things that we can do. Setting up climbing areas and rope swings and zip lines and, you know, eventually get into hunting and all the different things that this place makes possible. Yeah, I am just so excited. I walked over here because it's kind of a shitty trail and Sophia is in flip-flops, so back to Sophia. We're walking down the driveway towards the gate. The gate is just so over the top, so magnificent. And then, yeah, we've just got the structures kind of behind us. Yeah, I love this part. Check it out. You can see all the mountains all around us, all the elevation. You see it? Oh yeah. Cool, huh? That's it. Yeah, this driveway is pretty wild. It has all these basalt columns alongside of it and these poles that are, none of them are plumb, so I think the poles will be treed up or removed and turned into something else. We also have the vision of turning this into a full homestead, so that means doing like an orchard here and maybe doing some grapes over there and some animals you want. Definitely doing ducks. What do you want to do? What else? What else? I really, I'm into potentially mini goats, but definitely mini highland cows. That's critical, those emo vibes. The vibes, those emo nerds. And then one of the crazier structures you can maybe see off in the distance here is what we're calling Sky Cabin, but we'll get to that after we check out the gate and a couple other little things on the property. That's definitely the crown jewel of the property. That's where we're gonna procreate. It is pretty wild when your front driveway is half a mile. I know, we should definitely measure these out, see how long the driveway is. It's a bit. At least a quarter, yeah. It's a good little haul. Here's the main entry gate. It's hard to tell on the GoPro, but this thing is also way over the top. Some cool details. The driveway coming into the property, there's actually another gate all the way down there that you can see in the light. That's just, this whole road is our property, which is just so insane. And then it kind of extends as far as you can see that way, and then this is National Forest, and it's stunning in there. Just huge, massive, old growth, straight as an arrow pine trees. I was worried that it was part of the, there's some timber companies in the area. I thought it was maybe a timber company property, but it's National Forest, which is so cool. I'm going to show you really quick. So this is the, one of the corners of the National Forest just across from our property. Super beautiful, huge trees. It feels very like spiritual in here almost. It's crazy that this is, we did, we thought it was going to be a timber company. This is National Forest, so no one can develop here. We'll never have neighbors, and this is almost like our own private section of private forest. When I found out it wasn't timber company, I was literally like jumping for joy because it's it's so cool in here. It's so special. It's just stunning if you can see all the way through. It's so green, so lush. One of the projects though, and like this is maybe 50 yards from our property line, there is an abandoned Buick back here that will be a project for us to remove here at some point in time. Hopefully here sooner than later. What's crazy about this property is that none of the decorative logs are normal sized logs. Like you cannot find even this size log on the property itself. I don't know where the all of these came from, but we ain't messing around. All right, we are now back at kind of the barn dominium, sort of the main area where the structures are. We have this other structure here that's kind of interesting. So it's a pit toilet with a port-a-potty inside. Let me switch around here. Oh, and a squirrel. Sorry buddy. I'm about to get attacked by a squirrel. Hey, and he's out. So yeah, big port-a-potty. Kind of unnecessary, but there's a vault underneath here. So I think eventually we'll tear this out and make this actually kind of a really nice pooping palace, maybe an outdoor shower. Something like that would be a fun project, I think. And then we've got the propane tank here. Our water tank has been one of the bigger disasters of this entire property. Let me take you for a quick look. Quick look. We've had some issues here. So I've cleaned it up quite a bit actually, but if you look, it is just rat filth. It is basically, it's just full of rodent infestation. They've obviously, it's just been torn apart. That's the entrance to where the water tank sits. So there's just been like dead mice in it, fiberglass, dirt, dust. It's horrible. It's going to take a lot to bring this structure back to life. If we had the money, we would remove it and do a brand new one, but we are so house poor after this. Like I was just checking my bank account today. It's like our runway is so limited to be able to pull this thing off. The hope is eventually to share this space with people, host events, retreats, Airbnb, weddings, that kind of stuff. But we've got a long road ahead of us to get there. We need to get permitting. Some of the structures need to be obviously put back into livable function, livable state. The cabin is also completely inundated with rat poop. It's pretty much uninhabitable right now. So we are just navigating all of that. And yeah, one more structure, one of my favorites on the property coming up. And then we've got this vault here, which is where our pressure tanks are and our pressure switch. Unfortunately, one of the pressure tanks is corrupt and leaking water into that space. So there's three inches of water in it right now. Not ideal, but we're just doing it. Just getting our asses handed to us. Honestly, we expected all of this. This was all part of the deal. It's like, had any of this stuff been in working order, we could not afford it. We are like barely, barely qualified to make this happen. So here we are. So this property is cool. It has some kind of hidden trails on both sides, just to orient yourself. We've got the farm dominium, the main shop, and then the next shop further on. Then through this little tree tunnel is the cabin and pavilion. And there's this little offshoot trail right here, which takes us to one of my favorite structures on the property. There's a lot of favorites. This one's fun because it's like a 12-year-old built it. And I'm essentially a 12-year-old and a grown man's body with a 12-year-old's penis. We are starting a Patreon to try to make this thing reasonable and manageable and sustainable. That'll also go towards supporting Discovery Adventure Camps, which is my nonprofit that gets underserved kids into outdoor adventure programs, teaching them just appreciation, stewardship skills, so that they have the skills to go out and enjoy nature on their own. We also have gear available for free for kids that they can use to go camping, climbing, backpacking, anything like that. Supporting Muse Ranch also supports getting kids outdoors. We have some amazing plans for this property, what we're going to do, how we're going to create some incredible access to kids and adults and some educational components. So thank you all for watching this far. If you did, we appreciate it. Hit the like button, drop a comment, let us know what you'd like to see. Let us know what you don't like. If you have any ideas on what we can do, if you want to come out and help, we'll take any sort of help you can get. Yeah, wish us luck because I signed us up for a big old, big old whammy. Andrew promised a lot, but he is making good on those promises. I was like, dude, I have to be able to keep my real job by being out here, and he is. He's solving a lot of problems for me, and that's what makes this all possible. Yeah, I mean, it's hard. There's been a couple things that I've promised that I found out to be a little bit more complicated than I expected, but doing my best to keep Sophia happy and the team happy and the wheels running or the engine running and the wheels rolling. Doing my best. It's hard not to be happy out here. It's pretty hard not to be really grateful and appreciative, and yeah, this is kind of the whole point to life, you know. Instead of waiting to live it, we're doing that now. Trying to. Hanging it all the way out there to live it now. Trying to, for sure. Yeah, it's exciting. I'm optimistic, but that's my problem. I'm always delusionally optimistic. The Muse Roamer was a huge project. Pulled it off by the skin of my teeth, and I have a feeling this will be no different. If anything, it's even bigger. Anyways, the next and one of the coolest structures on the property. We're calling it the Sky Cabin. I don't know exactly how tall. My guess is 35 feet off the deck. It's one bedroom, has a stove in it, needs a ton of work. It's completely falling apart. Gonna try to put stairs around it at some point and finish it and turn it into a super vibey Airbnb, and off in the distance, stunning view of Mount Adams. So this is it. This is our cabin. You going up? Everyone gives Andrew s*** for wearing flip-flops when he's climbing up a five and a half foot ladder. Birds of a feather, baby. Oh yeah. Those are the tactical birks. Tactical birks. Oh, look who made it all the way out here. I heard the animal. I heard the animal. You want to load up? You going up the ladder? What do you think? Good boy. That's so funny. Good boy. So Kicker is almost 11 now, which is so crazy, and he's slowing down quite a bit, but he's very happy and definitely loves it out here. He's freaking going ham. Oh my goodness. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Load up. Load up. Let's go. Up, up. Up, up. Whoa. Whoa. That's crazy. That's a crazy dog. What are you thinking? You can't come up there. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We're going to pop up real quick. He's obviously not going to load up. He's not going to try. So I would never let Kicker get hurt. Yeah. Be really careful. All right. So we are on the top of Sky Cabin. That wraps up this walk with Andrew and Sophia. Check out the view. You got Mount Adams just on yonder. Oh yeah. So amazing. I just want to say thank you so much for following along. Without you guys, this would not be possible. We appreciate your support more than you could ever realize, and we hope to open up this space to share with people, to share with the community, to share with kids, to share with adults. And to share with a million dogs and a million kitties. A million dogs and a million kitties. These are cool animals. And yeah, if you got this far, please drop a comment, drop a like, turn on notifications. I don't know if any of that stuff works anymore. Who knows? But we're going to be posting here weekly, and we're super excited to share this journey with you. We really appreciate the support. So thank you. And on to the next one. Signing out from Mew's Ranch.