Cory my friend...that was a powerfully enjoyable piece of film. I can think of a decent contribution I might have been able to make to it...if only...
I wish some talented videographer had been at my side back in the late 1990's on a couple of really nasty forest fires I was on in eastern Washington state, felling really huge oldgrowth Ponderosa pines.
The several trees that I was tasked to fell were over 200 feet tall, over 4 feet at dbh, and were burning hot, their crowns fully engulfed. Slopes in excess of 100%. After midnight, dark as the inside of a cow. Every now and then a burnt off flaming limb would scream down to explode in an amazing shower of sparks and embers. You couldn't see the tops of the trees around the one to fell, you couldn't see the top of the tree you were cutting...you couldn't really see much at all.
It was scary beyond imagining. It was empowering beyond belief when you won the bet against death...only to hike on down the fireline to do it again, with the fear clenching your gut tighter than ever. The constant flood of adrenaline for several hours was something I never want to experience again...energizing in the extreme until the shutdown afterwards, which was like having every bit of your steam drain out into a puddle.
I think I never want to again, fairly sure...
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I expect these folks in Cory's vid feel a lot of that same stuff. It can very easily become addicting. You need not ask how I know
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