Wednesday, July 18, 2007
We're getting some rain now, not something we get much of during the summer, even then it won't do a whole lot, but it helps. It will definitely help keep the fire danger in check and I plan to cut fire wood Thursday.
I am a bit excited because I am finally getting a log splitter! Rather than get a engine mounted one, I found a good deal on a tractor driven one at a fraction of the cost of a engine mounted unit and I won't have an extra engine to maintain. This splitter hooks to the tractors 3 point hitch and runs off the tractors hydraulic system. The unit should be on a truck headed west as I write. I have a small mountain of wood to test it out on too.
We are so glad that we did the Mt Hood trail last year. Last winter, around November, there where some floods that wiped out some highway around Mt Hood and now we have learned that the Eliot Glacier ravine of the trail is washed out and the Forest Service said it may not even repair the trail and the environmental wackos are trying to suggest that it can't be rerouted due to it's wilderness designation. I say it will be repaired/rerouted in the near future, folks will see to that.
Mt Rainier (Wonderland trail) in Washington also had a section of trail washed out last winter and reports said it would take a while to fix. The Wonderland trail is around 93 miles and we talked of doing it some day along with the Mt St Helens loop. We plan to be back in the Three Sisters Wilderness this summer.
I am a bit excited because I am finally getting a log splitter! Rather than get a engine mounted one, I found a good deal on a tractor driven one at a fraction of the cost of a engine mounted unit and I won't have an extra engine to maintain. This splitter hooks to the tractors 3 point hitch and runs off the tractors hydraulic system. The unit should be on a truck headed west as I write. I have a small mountain of wood to test it out on too.
We are so glad that we did the Mt Hood trail last year. Last winter, around November, there where some floods that wiped out some highway around Mt Hood and now we have learned that the Eliot Glacier ravine of the trail is washed out and the Forest Service said it may not even repair the trail and the environmental wackos are trying to suggest that it can't be rerouted due to it's wilderness designation. I say it will be repaired/rerouted in the near future, folks will see to that.
Mt Rainier (Wonderland trail) in Washington also had a section of trail washed out last winter and reports said it would take a while to fix. The Wonderland trail is around 93 miles and we talked of doing it some day along with the Mt St Helens loop. We plan to be back in the Three Sisters Wilderness this summer.
# posted by Trail Seeker @ 9:05 AM 
