Alpine Boarding House-why so many doors?

[Kurt Maechner]

While I started out this topic looking at the number of doors on the wooden boarding house, now I noticed in this last photo that the stone boarding house had 3 doors!  3 doors and it was an even smaller structure!  

[Chris Walker]

This thread has me confused now

I saw in somewhere in the West on my travels,  possibly up in Bannack, a building that had two separate doorways that led into stairwells for access to individual rooms on the second storey.  I assumed it was on a/c of the very cold climate and prevented heat loss when the occupants of such rooms were coming and going.  I'm thinking perhaps maybe that is your answer.

[Robert McFarland]

It would seem that the doors in the plan don't seem to match the door and window arangement.

[Chris Walker]

Since we don't do snow on the ground where I live other than once in 25 years scenario, can anyone say whether this is avalanche country there at Alpine, seems awfully steep to the left.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/40598/rv/singleitem/rec/20

[Jeff Young]

Terrain like that wouldn’t slide /often/ because the wind keeps the snow from getting very deep.  (Notice how there are lots of bare rocks exposed.)  But it would slide from time to time.

In contrast notice the vertical stripes on the right background peak.  Classic signs of avalanche damage.

[Don Peterson]

Jeff & Chris
The hill to the left is southwest facing and would receive the  most sun. Also the prevailing winds would blow INTO the hill so I doubt in ran vary often. Not that it couldn't happen...

Don Peterson