Tree time & Fish time
Fishing and clearing the trails were the two most important things on list of things to do when we went to the mountains last weekend. The weather was great and we made the most of it.
Every great fishing hike should have a gorgeous photographer. Ours alternated between careful shots and trying to catch “the big one”, which she has done on many of our outings.
This was the fishing hole where the kids were catching them faster than I could take them off the hooks for them.
One little stretch of white water is mostly show because it was less than a foot deep.
The big one is my 17 inch 2 pound rainbow. He was a real fighter.
This was one of the tree situations that greeted us on arrival. Fortunately it wasn’t on the cabin, but it is on the trailer cover that my granddad built, so there is some serious sentimental value here. This doesn’t look too bad until you back up and get the whole view.
This is looking a little worse…
and unfortunately this looks almost impossible. Unless you own a crane or logging helicopter. Granddad knew how to build them. Now if we can figure out how to get this thing off without really trashing anything. I see a professional logger in our future.
Several of the trees went down and popped up a nice root ball. Cutting these up looks pretty easy. A tree on the ground is a safe tree right? Watch the video below before you answer that one.
Green windfall cutting on Vimeo.
If you cut these trees off too far from the roots, the mass of the roots and earth can stand the tree upright again. We got a lot of logging done and it was fun, but I am pretty sure the kids had more fun fishing. There’s always one more big fish out there after all.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
How can we ever thank you enough for all of the hard work you put in? We appreciate you BIG TIME! I was not at all prepared for how much emotion welled up walking around seeing those enormous sentinels of our past on the ground. So glad you were able to fit some fishing in to your days. I don’t remember the last time I saw a two pound rainbow come out of the creek. Yay for you! Thanks again John.