The Idaho TraIls Association is an incredibly professional organization with an emphasis on eduction and safety. Every year we have a couple these crew leader colleges to train our folks and kick around ideas and experiences.
After our initial talk, we headed a few meters down the trail and got to work.
Mark and Terry, professors of OHLEC, lead the training session. Mark has invented this backpacking noodle and demonstrates the proper way to hold it when jumping into a mountain lake. “Fingers on top so it doesn’t slip our of your hands”, he seemed quite adamant on this point.
After doing some OH-LE, we were cutting away.
A good saw with a couple of well trained sawyers can make sawdust!
To the untrained eye, one might think a bunch of people standing around and talking about a dead tree would be a group of geeks.
Proper storage of “She-Devil”.
Lunch break.
After lunch, it was my turn to do some O-Lickin and here was the result.
Later in the afternoon, we headed across the bridge to do some actual trail work.
Work happening above the South Fork.
Later that evening we do some dish washing, something we were all much more qualified to do.
The next day Jeff arrives to give us some choppin lessons.
With very few exceptions, we all needed choppin lessons.
This log near the campground worked well for our class this morning.
To call Jeff a “Saw Geek” might be a big understatement. He busted out his single buck saw and we commenced to cuttin coins.
There is nothing worse than doing trail work with dull tools so Jeff and Mel conducted a tool sharpening class.
Once finished with CLEM I couldn’t help but wonder what future campers in this spot will think about the work we had done….. Thanks to all for a good and educational weekend!
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