Overnight Campout...

Well we finally took our overnight trip. It was a good oportunity to bond as a crew over some really good "Dutch Oven" cooking. Thanks to Thayer and a bunch of novice food preparers... we had plenty of chicken, steak, fish, potatoes, etc. etc.

This is a good picture of Iceman and BT doing what they do best, sample food. The Alaskan caught Halibut and Salmon was wonderfully cooked and made us long for more as it quickly disappeared... "Thanks Thayer"
Shannon spent some time relaxing after BT had taken the crew on a little run in the woods for an afternoon PT. Following the PT some of us cooked food and some went for fire wood. We allowed a couple of our trainee sawyers to try their hand at cutting and gathering wood... actually, lets call it what it is... non of the crew really wanted to collect firewood... so we turned it into a training opportunity.

Of course the biggest hastle with collecting the wood is cleaning the saw afterwards... so once again our 1st time sawyer to a stab at a good field cleaning... Bevans did a wonderful job. We may be able to turn him into a good sawyer after all...

The night ended with a good conversation around the campfire... where we learned a little more about one another as we listened to Bevans strum a little on the guitar, and the Jazz get whipped for the final game of their road to the playoffs... okay, that was a little disappointing... but the rest of the night was a success and a whole lot of fun. Tomorrow, we will wake and take a little hike to the Devils Den fatality site...

Cheers,

Here We Go !!!

May has come and nearly gone, and I haven't yet posted on the blog. I have all the excuses in the world, but its meaningless to spill them now. The crew is all on but one... and she will join us by the weeks end. We have been spending our days at meetings and trainings. Most of you know how the first few weeks go... training, meeting, training, more training, meeting, etc...

We had our first RX of the season. I thought perhaps I would share a couple of pictures I took of David Brothwell falling a snag with fire in it. Not a particularly menacing snag... but it sure was stubborn about coming down. I will post a few more times over the next few days to catch you all up on the things happening with Zion Helitack.