The next morning we awoke to much more moisture in the air. The afternoon forecast calls for thunder showers and indeed that was our prediction as well.
Heading back down the trial to work, we had fine views of the Rapid River Drainage and Patrick Butte.
Lopping….. before and after. Many times lopping is thankless as the work is hard and the results are almost unnoticeable.
Loppity lop lop.
It is always nice to cut a tree and take a break from lopping.
When there is brushing to do, any tree is an opportunity to look like a Valley County Road Crew. Two dudes working and a lot a dudes watching. You can tell by Scotty’s classic arm on hip stance that he has extensive experience as a supervisor.
Nick and Carl putting Spike to work.
This one turned out to be the bugger tree of the trip. It was big and in a precarious position. After some studying and planning we place a bridge tree underneath to roll off the cut section then proceeded on cut one.
Cut one complete, cut two prep. While Scotty’s classic one arm on the hip stance was good, Anne is obviously the boss showing the two hands on the hip don’t mess with me stance.
The bridge worked like a champ then Jenny tidies up the work site.
Back to the lopping already in progress. One might say that we “Carled” the crap out of the brush on this trail! “Carled”, a verb, meaning to start and finish a job with vigor in one setting.
After a productive day of work, the afternoon thunderstorms arrived. It gave us an excuse to stop work and scurry back to camp for cover.
Back in camp we have a nice rain shelter set up and we proceeded to spent time there.
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