It's a Pacific Northwest thing... you wouldn't understand!

[056kid]

Lookie, its a PNW Thing---a beauty picture of "filtered sunlight." I had to put on shades because today was so bright! Perfect for killing more baby alders.

Here's a creek (pronounced crick) that you usually can't drive to this time of year.

Mmmmmm,

Ide love to crawl up to every one of thoes holes on my hands & knees & dip some nice trout worm morsals up in there!!

Say bye bye to your home Mr. Native! Im gonna eat you!!

 

[sawbones]

Hey Sawbones,
My brother and I were working for Weyerhaeuser out of Snoqualmie in 76. Were you still there then? I think there were seventeen sides going.
He still lives in Fall City.
That was some big country for a couple of greenhorns from the cornfields of Indiana.

worked till snow shutdown in 75 and did not go back . I worked with some local guys near me. Leroy Swartz senior was a side rod and Leroy junior was a hooktender. His brother Al was a cutter there too.

Only worked there a couple months and decided to go back to gypo logging instead of union.

 

[John Ellison]

I remember Leroy S. He was siderod when I was there too.

 

[AlaskanLogger]

worked till snow shutdown in 75 and did not go back . I worked with some local guys near me. Leroy Swartz senior was a side rod and Leroy junior was a hooktender. His brother Al was a cutter there too.

Only worked there a couple months and decided to go back to gypo logging instead of union.

We ran a couple sides on that tree farm for 3 or 4 years- Up above Calligan Lake, Up the Tolt (behind the 'elephant gate'), and clear down into the Ceder Ponds flats. I was movin a yarder in one night from the Gold Bar side, when I lost a rearend in the lowbed truck. Steep and switchbacks coming in from the north end (Longview Fibre and USFS ground on that end). Good times!

 

[Hddnis]

That is a really nice creek

It's crick!


:hmm3grin2orange:



Mr. HE

 

[slowp]

Seems like I was having a discussion with somebody, on how the big yarders rarely were able to move in to a sale during the day. I'd go up to the unit and the yarder had materialized overnight.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Cool mural

This well detailed mural is painted on the side of a car wash in downtown Puyallup

 

[Cedarkerf]

Washington the evergreen state

Ever wonder why its called the evergreen state? Because its coverd in moss. These pics arnt even in a "rain forest" although most every river valley west of the Cascade mountains is a micro rain forest.

 

[Jacob J.]

Seems like I was having a discussion with somebody, on how the big yarders rarely were able to move in to a sale during the day. I'd go up to the unit and the yarder had materialized overnight.

I remember that. At 6 a.m., the landing would be completely empty, just another wide spot in the road. By noon the next day, there was a full crew and a 90-foot tower pulling turns up out of the brush and stick wagons backing in for loadin'.

Now it seems much more drawn out.

 

[Cedarkerf]

The son in law dropping a big pine last fire season

 

[WesternSaw]

Wow!

That's one big pine!

 

[sawbones]

The son in law dropping a big pine last fire season

location ?

 

[Arrowhead]

Cool pics..... I like the moss/fern covered evergreen.

 

[Cedarkerf]

location ?

It was at the Boze fire down in the Umpqa area

 

[Andyshine77]

The son in law dropping a big pine last fire season

Big pine?? that's just a wee little baby tree.:jester:

 

[BIGBORE577]

I understand several things. Extremely tall trees we do not see. Old growth hard woods in places like Michigan I have. Respectful in their own right, I believe. Beech, Hickory, Oak and others you would not believe if I told you so. However, I'm going back to the 70's. I'm old and they are long gone. They were of very respectable size at the time, at least to me. I would think you might agree, perhaps not.

 

[mile9socounty]

The Boze Fire. Hell thats just up the river from where I'm living at now. You get back up in the National Forest. You will find some decent sized sticks up there.

 

[madhatte]

Other day I found a Madrone on the edge of a wetland, feet in the water... 32" x 80' tall, green and healthy, with licorice fern growing out of the moss on the trunk as if it were a Maple! This was on a bluff just west of Steilacoom, overlooking Ketron Island. Our ecology never fails to baffle me. That's pretty much why I stay here -- I'm never bored.

 

[Cedarkerf]

The son in law dropping a big pine last fire season

Hes part of the Baker river Hotshot crew he spent 3 months last year fighting the fires in Australia.

 

[mile9socounty]

He's a lucky man to go down yonder and fight fire. Big bucks in it as well. Baker River Hotshots you say? We have one working with us as well. He's a pretty good guy. Still brags about the fire's he's been on as well.