Tuesday March 5, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Rainy day
It was raining lightly today as I got it going. It finally stopped around the house so I needed something to do today.
Raining lightly, waiting for it to stop or slow down a bit, which it did.
Limited
With the rains I’m limited on what I can do. So that’s why I’ve been doing a lot of forest work lately and also because of the rain storms there’s lots to be done to clean up things on the roads and trails.
Checking out a trail
I needed to check out this part of the trail I worked on last year as I’ve not been up on it for a long time, since winter started and I would soon need to use it to get up to cut some big logs off the trail.
I drove on up to where the trail starts and parked and started walking out the trail on the right.
Checking out the trail
I walked along the trail throwing small sticks off the trail. It wasn’t long before I spotted a tree across the trail, just up ahead. I didn’t bring the saw up the trail with me as I just wanted to check the trail out first before I brought the saw up from the rig as I wasn’t sure I would need it and it would just get in the way as I walked up throwing fallen tree branches off the trail.
I stepped over the tree figuring I would come back a bit later with the saw.
It’s been windy up here
It looks like it had been a bit windy up here during some of the rain storms and there were lots of sticks to throw off the trail as I worked my way up the trail.
Big one
This was the next tree I came across. Too big for the little saw I had at the rig.
I could just cut some branches off the tree so I could get under it with the quad runner and that would work until I was up here with the larger chainsaw.
I continued to work my way up the trail throwing small stuff off it..
Light rains
I made it to the top of the trail where there were some more trees down, but the rains picked up and I was getting a bit wet. I tried standing under some big trees, but they were already saturated with water so I just got big drops of water on me instead of small ones….
I started back down the trail thinking the light rain might stop, but it didn’t.
I decided to go on home and maybe come back later if the rain stopped so that’s what I did.
It wasn’t raining at my house but when I looked back up on the hill, I could see it was still raining lightly up there.
It was time for a break so I took it easy for awhile getting something to eat too.
A bite later it looked like the rain shower had stopped so I rode back up to the trail to cut the trees off the trail.
Back with the saw
I started with this one which was fairly easy to do.
I cut the limbs off the big fir tree and continued on up to the top where these trese were and cut them into pieces I could move off the trail.
Cut up
Cutting the trees into smaller pieces so i could move them off the trail. The light rain started again, but it was light enough so I wasn’t getting real wet and it finally stopped before I was done.
That was enough work for one day and I got more than enough exercise so I headed for home.
You can see the light rain up in the forest which seemed to come and go throughout the day, even though the weather guys said it was just going to be cloudy today. One just has to work around things as best one can.
Nice day.
