Two things stood between Mike Purkey and the biggest job of his plumbing career: climbing a mountain and getting the work done before the snow started to fly.
The job was at Camp Oljato, a Boy Scouts facility located at 7,200 feet elevation in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Creek Fire had burned through the camp in September 2020, destroying some of the buildings. The Boy Scouts were having a hard time finding contractors to rebuild it: The job was too remote, the logistics too difficult.When Purkey, owner of Purkey’s Plumbing in Auberry, California, heard about the job, he hesitated before
