The trail in

Last week commenced the brushing of the cabin location and trail into it. It was a muddy and wet start.

Tyler and I went down Thursday night and got a fresh start Friday morning riding what last year was a nice dry trail. The rain this year has so far been fair and almost non-existent if you consider the fires we’ve been having, but not on our first ride in. Muddy and slick was the theme for the weekend, but we did make some good progress Friday and located the actual markers for the northeast and northwest corners. Finding the northwest corner was a fluke more than anything. The dang willows are 12 to 14 high and thicker than blades of grass on a golf course. I just happened to see this flash of sunlight reflection and low and behold there it is, the same darn marker I’d spent the last 4 hours trying to locate. But we did find it, so all is good.

Dean showed up Saturday morning at 1:00 AM, this is of course getting to be his habit coming to camp at midnight that is. We did the hellos and went back to sleep only to get up 6 hours later to have breakfast and gear up for the day. Gearing up mainly consisted of chain-saws, oil and gas and rain gear. Yup, a wet raining days to cut brush. We did a pretty good lick in on the trail and the building pad as you’ll see in the picture below. I just wished we had a week of dry sunny days to finish it up with.

Next weekend were hauling in the post timbers (railroad ties actually) and might even have some time to work on a couple of the post holes. But if we can get the trail finished up and all the poles hauled in, then life will be easier. Maybe we’ll see some more Moose like that cow and calf, or course I’d prefer to see a nice 60” bull, just so I know their there.