Rolf’s Hideout

Rolf’s Hideout is a wonderful place for children and animals to play. It has winding trails and gurgling creeks and lots of other things just waiting to be discovered and explored.

Rolf’s Hideout is just off the Mountain Loop highway near Snohomish, Washington. It’s the place just before the wooden bridge if you are traveling south.

The hideout is located within a National Forest in the Cascade Mountains on the banks of the Sauk River. It is surrounded by mountains, hills, and valleys filled with natural forests and meadows.

Rolf’s Hideout is a rather rustic community of cabins of various designs and construction. Some are log cabins with high-pitched roofs and sleeping lofts where the attic usually is. There are no electric services so fireplaces and propane gas or wood stoves are used for heating and cooking. There is no indoor plumbing so the conveniences are located outside in small buildings called outhouses.

During the winter only the hardiest sportsmen visit the hideout because it is very cold and snowy. There are only three families that live there year round and sometimes the snow is so deep that they cannot get out of the hideout for weeks at a time.

In the spring, summer, and fall, however, the hideout is a wonderful place to be.

Tommy Raccoon is one of the inhabitants of the hideout. Tommy is a flying raccoon. He is one of the Tennessee Raccoons.

Tommy’s best friend is Buddy. Buddy is a gray and black striped cat who visits each year from the city. Tommy also likes Buddy’s humans Micaela, Quinlan, and Meagan. These humans are quite small in comparison to other humans Tommy had seen around Rolf’s Hideout.  The large ones usually try to scare Tommy, so he stays away from them.  But the little ones talk to Tommy and are friendly. Buddy calls the little humans ‘children’ and tries to take care of them when the large humans are gone doing large human things.

It is in and around Rolf’s Hideout that we shall discover many things. We will discover how Buddy became a hero, who is fabulous Billy, what relativity is, how Meagan lost her favorite teacup, and many other important things.