Trail Crew USFS Internship Photos

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Fish Creek Falls


Cut the tree and as i predicted, and nobody else on my crew believed, the stump fell right back into the hole. Made a two cut job into a one cut job.


Home for the Evening


Burn Scar


Crosscut and Wedge


Black Bear Print


Peruvian Sheep Herder Tree Art (very sacred)


Inside California Park Guard Shack


Outside California Park Guard Shack


Do Not Eat


Combi (great for digging out water-bars on the trail)


Once in a lifetime kill for this hunter (only two permits issued for our region per season)


Sheep Guard Dog


Beetle Kill!!!


Snow in the Distance

 

[stig]

Great pictures!
That sheepdog looks like a lightweight version of my Sam.
Where in California was this?

 

[top_notch]

I thought you had dogs similar to that one. Your right about the weight of the dog, unfortunately they usually look pretty slim, however they are working round the clock. The photo is actually in Colorado about two hours NW of Steamboat Springs where I live. California Park is in Routt National Forest, Hahns Peak Bears Ears District.

 

[stig]

I wonder how I got it mixed up with California.
I was thinking it was somewhere on the eastern side of the Sierras.

 

[top_notch]

Yup, I hear ya. I'm not sure why they named it that. Perhaps because it looks like California around there. Who knows!?!

 

[sotc]

Cool pix, I would have loved that job as a kid!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool 'lil shack.

 

[brendonv]

Looks like vacation, not work.

 

[Bermy]

Why does the ram (?) have a tag in its ear?

 

[Bodean]

Great Pics, love seeing what earth looks like.

 

[top_notch]

Most of the time it seems like vacation. It feels really good to know that I'm getting paid to be hiking in the wilderness, but on the fourth day out, working sun up to sun down, cutting about the hundredth tree with the cross cut saw, the couch at home is calling my name LOUD!!! I do feel very fortunate to have this job though. And yes, we do work hard.

 

[top_notch]

Why does the ram (?) have a tag in its ear?

I think that is the tag that the hunter gets. It didn't have the tag until it was dead. Around here you can only win one ram tag in your lifetime. The guy and his wife was grinning ear to ear.

 

[brendonv]

I'm sorry, bit misinformed. But why only the cross cut saw?

 

[sotc]

Looks more like a fish and game tag than a hunting tag.

Probably wilderness Brendan

 

[top_notch]

I'm sorry, bit misinformed. But why only the cross cut saw?

No worries, sorry myself if that post seemed a little bit heated. Sotc is right, the section of trail we were working was in the wilderness which = no chainsaw, no wheelbarrow, no bicycle, no technology. Its awesome and sucky at the same time. There are some trails which I would love to be able to ride my bike on, but its prohibited. But you can take horses and pack animals to get stuff around, unfortunately we didn't have that luxury on this trip. There is a crew in our district that rides horses though...talk about a sweet job!!!

 

[Burnham]

Great shots, young brother!

 

[OTGBOSTON]

Great pics.

 

[squisher]

Cool! I'd love to do a pack trip with horses one day.

 

[Bounce]

Very nice. That makes me miss my days on the wilderness trail crew in the Naches Ranger Dist. here in WA.

 

[sotc]

Cool! I'd love to do a pack trip with horses one day.

It's a whole different experience, much better but still not worth owning a horse imo

 

[top_notch]

Very nice. That makes me miss my days on the wilderness trail crew in the Naches Ranger Dist. here in WA.

Sweet, I think the PNW will be my next place of residence...haven't checked out that part of the nation yet.