Neltje, a friend of the Creative Writing Program, has generously offered use of her cabins along Crazy Woman Creek in the Bighorn Mountains to MFA students. Last weekend, Brad Watson and six graduate students drove up from Laramie to spend the weekend enjoying the outdoors.

The road to “Big Crazy,” the biggest of Neltje’s cabins, and the only one with running water and electricity.

Kat Williams, apparently ecstatic to be on the porch of Big Crazy.

Ammon Medina and Alec Osthoff look down onto the valley from the porch of Big Crazy.

The view descending from the mountains on a very primitive two-track.

“Mini Crazy,” the primitive cabin closest to Big Crazy, which sits just beside Crazy Woman Creek. It’s heated by a wood stove, which we had to feed through the night, as it dipped into single digits outside.

Liz Kulze, Kat Williams, Carly Fraysier, Alec Osthoff, and Ammon Medina hike a trail up to “White Lightning,” another of Neltje’s primitive cabins.

Beautiful rock formations along the trail that Neltje has appropriately named the “good rocks.”