Fruitland • When Chad Hintze rakes through the blackened rubble of what used to be his cabin, he hopes to find one thing: a pair of bright yellow wooden skis.
If they’re gone, and he thinks it’s likely they are, Hintze will search for the metal bindings. And if there’s no trace of those either, well, he shrugs, not finding the words, he just can’t think about that.
The skis had hung crossed above the fireplace in the getaway home he and his wife, Leila, were months away from finishing. They’d started the project in 2015 when Hintze’s dad, Mark, was still healthy and helped design the layout.