Falling pics 11/25/09

[tramp bushler]

I'm. Real glad the bugs and tourists are gone. I don't mind the tourists. But when they are around the bugs are around too.

 

[northmanlogging]

I was working with a guy this fall who cut down in Wyoming this past summer on fires. He's from Chitna. Alaska. Said it was steep, dry and the people were unfriendly. Which surprised him, he had figured Wyomingites would be kind of like Alaskans.[/QUOT]


I grew up a little in WY, while its beautiful country, and lots of fond memories of good hunting fishing and camping, I know too many people that think I owe em somthing, like a hug... last time i saw my step brother (one of the times he wasn't in prison) he begged me for a hickory shirt...

 

[tramp bushler]

Was he naked or poor?

 

[northmanlogging]

no just covered in ugly prison tattoos of mostly the hate type origin, very loud, rude, and at one of my favorite watering holes, couldn't wait to get rid of him and the step drunk, so sacrificing a shirt no big deal, (it was that or shoot em both) plus it added to the myth of me that that side of the family has been spreading for 20 some odd years...

 

[Metals406]

Was he naked or poor?

Or a mooch!!

 

[tramp bushler]

Ya, I wouldn't want to live there, but then I don't have to. Couldn't imagine being land locked.

 

[tramp bushler]

Something is messed up with the notifications. Nate, what time does it get dark there now. ?? It was 12 below when I got up this morning.

 

[Rounder]

About a month to damn soon! Wasn't it just summer?

I've been up on Stemple Pass, and I'm not kidding, it was about a week and a half between sucking smoke and sweating my ass off, to putting on winter tires and winter clothes.


Oh well, only have to deal with it till mid June

 

[tramp bushler]

Hey, its been below 0 every morning this week. Close to 20 below some mornings.

 

[floyd]

Keeps the riff raff out.

 

[Metals406]

Something is messed up with the notifications. Nate, what time does it get dark there now. ?? It was 12 below when I got up this morning.

It's been getting dark around 6:30pm -- minus 12 seems mighty cold for only being October.

 

[Metals406]

I've been up on Stemple Pass, and I'm not kidding, it was about a week and a half between sucking smoke and sweating my ass off, to putting on winter tires and winter clothes.


Oh well, only have to deal with it till mid June

That's not funny!! It's true, but not funny. :msp_sneaky:

:msp_wink:

 

[tramp bushler]

Oh, it'll be OK Nate. March is my favorite month. No bugs. 30 below at night 30 above during the day. I just wish it would stay March for most of the year.

 

[northmanlogging]

I kinda like the +teens cold enough to feel it and it seems to dry everything out a little bit, most of the winters here hang around 33-37 and damp so it grabs you by the bones and doesn't let go

 

[floyd]

Damn good thing the sun never shines as well. Hard to whine about being cold when warm sun is on your face.

I recall one Nov it rained every day.

For the TFalls-Plains folks. Long ago I marked & cruised a sale somewhere out of Tfalls in 4' of snow. Of course we lit a pitch stump for lunch. By the time we started up in the PM we were about 100' from the stump & 1/2 naked because it was so damn hot.

T Falls one those depressing places in winter. I lived in a canyon S of town.

At that time Champion was hauling trainloads of nice yellow PP out. Doing their cut n run thing. Like they have from Great Lakes to the West Coast They sold out here in the 80's in OR then in the 00's in WA.

 

[slowp]

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Pictures from roaming around behind the house yesterday.
Looking NE.

Looking towards Mt. Adams, which you can't see, of course.

Looking towards Idaho and Montaaaana. They're only a couple hundred and more miles that way.

 

[Rounder]

Damn good thing the sun never shines as well. Hard to whine about being cold when warm sun is on your face.

I recall one Nov it rained every day.

For the TFalls-Plains folks. Long ago I marked & cruised a sale somewhere out of Tfalls in 4' of snow. Of course we lit a pitch stump for lunch. By the time we started up in the PM we were about 100' from the stump & 1/2 naked because it was so damn hot.

T Falls one those depressing places in winter. I lived in a canyon S of town.

At that time Champion was hauling trainloads of nice yellow PP out. Doing their cut n run thing. Like they have from Great Lakes to the West Coast They sold out here in the 80's in OR then in the 00's in WA.

Seems like T falls is always a hot spot in the summer too. Buggy. I try and stay away from there.

 

[Metals406]

Oh, it'll be OK Nate. March is my favorite month. No bugs. 30 below at night 30 above during the day. I just wish it would stay March for most of the year.

Damn Glen! We're gonna have to start calling you Polar Bear! LOL

 

[FSburt]

Well so much for any more wildfires up there. Put a fork in it time for some pile burning now.

 

[Samlock]

Oh, it'll be OK Nate. March is my favorite month. No bugs. 30 below at night 30 above during the day. I just wish it would stay March for most of the year.

March is one of my favorites too. The only thing is that you can walk on snow in the morning, but sometimes it won't hold after noon. Every third or fourth step goes in. But that March light after dark winter!

The days are getting shorter, though. Glen, are you sitting over the dark season or do you bother? I'm mostly sitting. Just a thinning job and a small clear cutting patch scheduled for December - January. Plus alarm jobs of course (not many, I hope).