Quik, looks and sounds alot like my camp, "Camp Sneeze". We have the gravity fed water just like you and has been pieced together over the years. It started as a kitchen, a porch, and a bedroom. We added another bedroom and enclosed the porch for a card room. It ain't pretty, but it keeps us warm and dry. When the issue for a new cabin is pressed the old man just says, "if we did that then your mother and your aunts would want to come.....this place is perfect....go patch the roof one more time."
In respect to Mr. James, here is the view out off the mountain from the front steps.
Here is the mascot: