Rock Slide Check and Cruising For Storm Damage

Saturday November 23, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Rock Slide

I thought I better go up and check on the rock slide, first thing.

So I drove on up to the slide through the state park and parked by the slide to have a look. Looks good for now, so I don’t need to do anything about it today. A neighbor drove up behind me.

Cruising for downed trees

Since everything was good with the slide, I decided to just go for a cruise around the properties.

I headed for my cousin’s place and ran into this little tree to get off the road. That one was easy to remove.

Big slugs

With all the rain, it’s nice and wet and the banana slugs are coming out.

I stopped here to remove these little guys.

I cut them into small enough pieces to make them easy to remove.

Then I ran into this big mess of fallen trees. These are going to take awhile to deal with.

I cut it all up to make everything smaller and lighter and took a good break.

I got most of it off the road, but I needed another break before dealing with this last log, the largest one.

I got it all cleared and was now too warn out to do anymore like that. I’d just turn around and go another way if I ran into any more trees across the road.

I was headed to the top of the hill to our break area. I almost got there when I ran into another small tree across the road, so I removed it. Good thing it was small or I would have turned around.

Break time at the top. The rain had stopped for awhile.

There were lots of big clouds in the sky.

I made it back to our place to the pond. The water is starting to clear up.

Blocked again

From there I only got about a 100 feet and ran into these downed trees. I immediately turned around as I was too worn out to deal with them and there were lots of other ways home.