Our family of 4 immigrated to Canada in 1979 from Germany.                     We first settled in incredible Lions Bay, Howe Sound, Vancouver.               Here we established a successful interior design business.

In 1989, it was time for a change. We moved to Penticton and bought a 115 acre piece of forgotten land above Skaha Lake. After a major clean up, we started designing, building, and creating our great dream vision: God’s Mountain Crest Chalet, Bed and Breakfast, Vineyard above Skaha Lake.

In the 17 years of running this unique tourist attraction, we had established a broad loyal base of international guests, local families, KVR Bicycle Tours and Individual European Self Drive Traveling Clientele. Besides individual tourist, we also catered to many weddings, corporate conferences and social parties or meetings. Dozens of worldwide travel writers covered our story, an out of the ordinary, eclectic hospitality concept, a very special space we had developed.

In 2005, a long time customer took over, so giving us the freedom to look for a new challenge. We found it in the South Okanagan Back Country at Anarchist Summit.  

We have embarked on an invigorating journey in the bush; re-starting on 500 acres of untouched rolling mountain hills. When we bought the property, it was the Wild West: a broken down old barn, no phone/computer, no water, no electricity, no driveway, no house, not even a small dog house. To get started with nothing, on top of the mountain, we had to make some very important and instant decisions.

This was not a new, fenced, gated, easy and convenient retirement community. At an elevation of 1360 meters, being high above HWY 3, @ Anarchist Summit, there was no connection to any service, one does expect as now being retired.

Roads were put in, designs were conceived, a log builder contracted, wells were drilled, and a solar system with batteries and inverter was installed. So we do have power, completely off grid, WIFI/VOIP and SHAW Satellite TV. As it stands today, 4 years later, we came along way, since coming up here.

The New Grand Lodge, not finished yet, draws already a lot of attention. Our first straw-bale guest chalet is completed, ready to welcome discerning individuals or groups, to explore our down to earth comfortable country inn. Do come up here, I will give you a tour and will gladly share with you our design ideas, implementing a hybrid straw-bale construction concept.

To achieve a rustic, back to nature, but inviting ambiance, we were blending conventional building methods with massive log posts, beams and straw-bales, to design and create Almighty Summit Estate.

  6130 Harfman Road @ Anarchist Summit/HWY 3 | 1.250.276.4322 almightysummitestate@hotmail.com