The Forest Products Report 2010

[slowp]

Is grim. This was the best picking I've been in this year. It entailed a 32 mile drive (a good hour), a climbing trail for a mile, no water for hot labradors to soak in (I knew that and had lots of drinking water) and there were watchers. The picking would be mediocre on a normal year. I'd say we spent about 4 hours at it. I didn't quite make a gallon.

Pictures.
The huckleberry brush.

My pack dog. Who is worn out and sleeping on his plush bed. He deserves it.

Mt. Adams--I used a zoom for this one.

I stopped to pick a bit on our way out. I saw a white dot on the rock above.

We were being watched by the Billy Goats Gruff. I really zoomed to get this and could not get a sharp image.

This area was burned back in 1919 or thereabouts. It was not reforested and has been slow to come back. The elevation is around 5000 feet.

Summer temps today. We suffered, the flies came out, but not to worry. Rain is in the forecast for tomorrow, maybe.

I sure hope next year is a better berry year.

 

[teatersroad]

just ask the bears. word is they're sizing up straggling and wayward peeps, or at least pawing through a lot more trash around here.

edit > that's such beautiful country. I celebrated the millennium snow camping around goat rocks/horse heaven. something tells me you're in that country (could be the goat and the rocks. maybe mt. adams)

editedit> scratch that.. Indian Heaven is what I meant. There is a Horse Heaven near me and another West of Tri-Cities, twas on my mind.

 

[Gologit]

Is grim. This was the best picking I've been in this year. It entailed a 32 mile drive (a good hour), a climbing trail for a mile, no water for hot labradors to soak in (I knew that and had lots of drinking water) and there were watchers. The picking would be mediocre on a normal year. I'd say we spent about 4 hours at it. I didn't quite make a gallon.



I sure hope next year is a better berry year.

At least you tried. We still have some canned huckleberries that you brought when you visited. You can't have them back.

 

[madhatte]

No sympathy. I've been telling you all year where to go!

 

[slowp]

No sympathy. I've been telling you all year where to go!

I like the high elevation with a view patches. There's also the option of buying domesticated blueberries in July. They grow them in Mossyrock. But those just don't taste as good.

The cortizone shot worked, the feet are fine this morning. But my back, :censored:. Should have picked on a steeper hillside.

We have rain this morning. That's it for the berries. The Used Dog is still in bed..... snoring.

 

[teatersroad]

I got a rumbly in my tumbly

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJriRm9cpPJWCgUmozKTvE7gQz4QD9I8LGK81

 

[Jacob J.]

That's a good shot of Mt. Adams.