The Descriptive Process

[2dogs]

FSTEP classes. Watching 50 mostly middle aged and elderly people who don't bend in as many places as they used to participate in simulated fire shelter deployment. After six hours of lectures. On a hard floor. With a time limit. And having to repack your practice shelter to specs.

The doughnuts were good, though.

There is talk again about adding a pack test to the requirements for contractors. Fallers will have to pass the "arduous" test which is 3 miles in 45 minutes carrying a 45lb pack. It was said that runners and water tender drivers will have to pass the same test. The obits will be real interesting the days following that test.
BTW it was still wet from our annual rain storm so we threw shelters inside on the concrete floor. I hit the floor way to hard. Fortunately inside the shelter no one could see me whimpering.

 

[Gologit]

There is talk again about adding a pack test to the requirements for contractors. Fallers will have to pass the "arduous" test which is 3 miles in 45 minutes carrying a 45lb pack. It was said that runners and water tender drivers will have to pass the same test. The obits will be real interesting the days following that test.
BTW it was still wet from our annual rain storm so we threw shelters inside on the concrete floor. I hit the floor way to hard. Fortunately inside the shelter no one could see me whimpering.

I made a post in Fire about that. From the looks of the class I took Saturday there would be wide spread cardiac incidents. Runners, water tender drivers, even Cat skinners...they're going to leave their vehicle and try to escape on foot?

 

[Metals406]

There is talk again about adding a pack test to the requirements for contractors. Fallers will have to pass the "arduous" test which is 3 miles in 45 minutes carrying a 45lb pack. It was said that runners and water tender drivers will have to pass the same test. The obits will be real interesting the days following that test.
BTW it was still wet from our annual rain storm so we threw shelters inside on the concrete floor. I hit the floor way to hard. Fortunately inside the shelter no one could see me whimpering.

Not just talk. . . They're making contractors do it. March 8th I do my 130 class, now with the 3 mile pack test added. And the way our weather is, it'll be -5 degrees and snowing. You know, to mimic fire season.

 

[rwoods]

I was sadden to read that Bob's retirement fund has been plundered. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-couple-finds-10m-gold-coins-buried-yard-n38471 I could offer some weekend work. Ron

 

[Gologit]

I was sadden to read that Bob's retirement fund has been plundered. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-couple-finds-10m-gold-coins-buried-yard-n38471 I could offer some weekend work. Ron

Dammit, I thought I had those hid better than that. Guess I better get my boots and saws ready...no retirement now. I'd take you up on the weekend work but the commute would be a killer.

How much you want to bet that people start coming out of the woodwork now making claims on those coins? The report wasn't specific about a location but what they call the Gold Country runs for a couple of hundred miles or more up through the Sierra Nevadas. There were a lot of stage coach robberies and payroll heists back in those days. If the coins were uncirculated would that mean that they'd come directly from the SanFrancisco mint? Interesting story.

 

[northmanlogging]

My great granpappy on the step drunk side ran with the hole in the wall gang, so me being the sole surviving family member not an ex con or currently in prison, it should all go to me...

 

[slowp]

Now that I trying to thin my alder and burn slash, the wind is howling again. It is a hard enough wind so limbs are flying and sometimes the house creaks. Oh well, it isn't raining.

 

[madhatte]

Best weather in weeks, and I get clobbered with paperwork and don't get anything done outside. Figures.

 

[2dogs]

Dudes! It rained today! Well for a couple of hours anyway. The wiper blades had bonded with the windshield and I have no idea where my rain gear is but the grass is wet. I don't know what else to say.

 

[madhatte]

Good for you guys! You needed it. Here's hoping for a bit more.

 

[treeslayer2003]

looks like they gonna get some more. y'all keep it, we got to much on this side.

 

[Metals406]

Your CA rain is due to be 3"-8" of white devil here.
:-(

 

[slowp]

I think we sent you more today because it is a dry and cloudy warm morning here. I'm not seeing any wind so it might be a good day to burn.

 

[Metals406]

Blizzard warning fir late Thursday night and Friday. . . Followed by -10 to -15 for lows Saturday and Sunday.

Awesome. :-(

 

[northmanlogging]

I do miss me a good blizzard... The jokers around here think that a few flakes and a slight breeze is the end of humanity, They'd probably **** themselves stupid, if they where in a true white out condition with 90 mp winds...

 

[1270d]

I think the equipment might take a couple extra minutes to warm up in the morning

 

[treeslayer2003]

burrrr, i'm done with winter now.
it is thawed here, may as well be spring.

 

[slowp]

I do miss me a good blizzard... The jokers around here think that a few flakes and a slight breeze is the end of humanity, They'd probably **** themselves stupid, if they where in a true white out condition with 90 mp winds...

We can get that sometimes up skiing. They close the chairs down more now than they used to.

 

[northmanlogging]

Snowmobiling for me... which can be fun on a logging road with no shoulder... as in just air to your right somewhere and a solid rock face on the left, with a switch back coming up somewhere...

Or walking home from school in WY... the one time they closed school...

 

[1270d]

Temp hopefully bottomed out at -26 this morning. The ol 7.3 cracked off quick. No block heater or anything.