It’s a great hike , try this one sometime,Half DomeThat cable walk way at the beginning is a little un-nerving.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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All my photos of GNP and my hiking days are on 35mm slides. My Nephew did scan a couple for me and this is my favorite of the ones he did. Wild Goose Island in St Mary's Lake on Gunsight Lk trail.
I don't think my knees could take that. Maybe I could hire a Sherpa to carry me on his back?It’s a great hike , try this one sometime,Half Dome
The week before we went, a young lady fell to her death, she got scared half way up , and lost it mentally, Unfortunate situation.I don't think my knees could take that. Maybe I could hire a Sherpa to carry me on his back?
OK enough 'Other Stuff' (GNP) for me now. The sun's coming up and I have to get going. Heat index is suppose to be 110 deg with high humidity today and I want to be out stacking and splitting by 7:00A before it get's too hot.
It’s a great hike , try this one sometime,Half Dome
I did that in 2007 at the end of a 180 mile two week hike that ended in Yosemite Valley.
Sure like to do the John Muir Trail , but don’t know if that will happen, with permit issues and such ,tried to one for Mt Whitney but was unsuccessful, when I was out that way , hike to the portal , of the Mountain,
I've been lucky enough to hike some nice trails. Half Dome, Grand Canyon, Mt Washington and Katahdin. My favorite although not in the US was Kilimanjaro. Took a week and it was so much fun. Lucky enough to be the first to the sign on top and be the first in Africa to see the sun rise as we left for the final push at midnight. First in North America to see sunrise on Katahdin. Left before dawn on that one, too.
Never! Many years ago we flew west to Seattle and took Amtrak back east to the Izzak Walton Lodge in Montana. Would have taken train from here all the way but some tracks were out due to a flood in MN as I recall. Our two boys were junior high school age and they were excited about the trip. Fished rivers and a couple lakes within hiking distance of Izzak Walton Lodge. Got a rental car and spent some great time in Glacier National Park. It truly was a trip that none of us will ever forget! I fell in love with Montana but our boys, now grown men both have their own families (and our 7grandkids) so we are pretty well tied to SC. Now in our early 70’s and with some acreage and a nice place here I know that moving is no longer an option. Have been back a few times over the years for business and pleasure. Still in love with Montana
Sure did hear that idiot.
So choose a different starting or ending point, or both. One group I know started at Florence Lake and went south to Whitney Portal, then drove back to Florence Lake and went north to Yosemite Valley. Florence Lake is an easy permit to get. You could also chose a start point near one end.
Mine are covered by the inner tubs and the wood stays dry.That's not the problem, shoving them through and dragging them back out is, it just plain sucks.
These are just waaay better,
They are easy to build, easy to load and unload and they hold a half cord of splits.
SR
Thank Bernie Sanders, he is probably behind it.
Yes it is. It's belt driven with 2 different sized pulleys (for either gas/diesel or steam), but since I've been volunteering the past 10 years we've just used a Massey Ferguson 97, a rebadged Minneapolis-Moline G705 if memory is correct. It came from Amish in WI that could use tractors as stationary power and this one was used to power one of their sawmills, but I don't know if they used PTO or a belt to power the mill. It has pex valves on the radiator so they could hook them up to another radiator with a belt driven blower fan that hung from the rafters as a "heater" for sawmill in the winter.
The mill as a 48" dia blade, it's only primarily used for the thrashing show once a year or if someone asks the owner. Here's a couple older pictures of me running the mill and some of the bigger piles of milled lumber. If someone brings in logs to mill we will mill them to how they want them, otherwise the ones the owner brings are "get whatever you can or want out of them". The owner calls me the "saw master", but more or less I can run the mill and put on a show but I'm still learning how to properly run it. It's as easy as it looks but it can be hard too.
Sawyer Rob
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That's fine, but I've found that I only need to cover mine for a couple weeks before the splits go into my basement, so I cover the ones going down about 2 weeks before moving them.
The way my boxes are designed, a lot of air goes through them. I've double checked that, and it works out great.
SR
Will be up there in a few weeks for the kid's 3rd grade field trip. Hiked into Avalanche lake last year with his 2nd grade class.
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I've got to agree with you. Difficult for me to load and unload them unless you have a way to tip them over. I use a couple, though, just for my cut-offs. I built hip roof covers to keep my nubbins piles dry.
