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I figured I'd share a few pics - I've been hiking this week and got back Thursday. They're taken with a phone, so excuse the low res...
This is interesting - it's an old loggers' latrine. It's made of red cedar (first growth judging by the grain) which hasn't been logged in that area in a lot of years!
Here's a shot of the business end...it's formed by the hollow under the stump. Man, that sure beats digging a hole and lashing a grunt bar over it ! The toilet seat is recent.
I set up camp here the first night. To the right of where the picture was taken and behind the camera was a trickle of water that had carved a path through the salal and blackberries. I figured a campsite near there would be a good place to spot wildlife. Sure enough, as soon as dusk rolled around a couple mule deer came down to drink. My lean-to was completely concealed through a screen of branches. The slightest breeze was carrying my scent downstream, just enough to make them wary but still thirsty...best moment of the trip!
This was right near my second site. A real grunt getting up here ! 'Bear' would've just climbed straight up, I know....
I had to leave the creekbed to make my nightly check-in phone call to my wife.
After breaking camp and a breakfast of huckleberries in corn meal, I was off. Once I found this dramatic spot, I had to stop. It was a GREAT place for a swim, especially since it must have been in the high 20s (C) Campsite was just off to the right.
Last but not least, this is a shot of an upturned cedar. The underside of that root mass is 8 or 10 feet across. The dirt in the foreground is the edge of a 50 foot drop into the creek. The butt of the tree is prob 4 feet in diameter and is pretty constant right down to the water. This was a big hunka wood ! As the soil bank eroded there was no more support for the roots to hold the tree. We had a pretty windy winter this year and this thing probably didn't stand a chance...
I guess it could be said that even my phone has multiple uses (more like my camera does ?!)
Because it is a knife forum...no post would be complete without a little about gear:
The machete in my pack is the latest Tramontina I did with a curly maple handle and a epoxy/ply sheath.
The upper 'guard' has been removed now and so has the 'finger hook' It didn't feel right and I was wary of how much handle it would take with it if it snagged on something. That and my Leatherman were all the steel I used this trip. A soup can billy, some food, some jute, a wool sweater, and a poncho liner were all I really used. The rest of the stuff was dead weight. All my gear came to only 20 lbs though, so it wasn't too bad.
This is interesting - it's an old loggers' latrine. It's made of red cedar (first growth judging by the grain) which hasn't been logged in that area in a lot of years!
Here's a shot of the business end...it's formed by the hollow under the stump. Man, that sure beats digging a hole and lashing a grunt bar over it ! The toilet seat is recent.
I set up camp here the first night. To the right of where the picture was taken and behind the camera was a trickle of water that had carved a path through the salal and blackberries. I figured a campsite near there would be a good place to spot wildlife. Sure enough, as soon as dusk rolled around a couple mule deer came down to drink. My lean-to was completely concealed through a screen of branches. The slightest breeze was carrying my scent downstream, just enough to make them wary but still thirsty...best moment of the trip!
This was right near my second site. A real grunt getting up here ! 'Bear' would've just climbed straight up, I know....
I had to leave the creekbed to make my nightly check-in phone call to my wife.
After breaking camp and a breakfast of huckleberries in corn meal, I was off. Once I found this dramatic spot, I had to stop. It was a GREAT place for a swim, especially since it must have been in the high 20s (C) Campsite was just off to the right.
Last but not least, this is a shot of an upturned cedar. The underside of that root mass is 8 or 10 feet across. The dirt in the foreground is the edge of a 50 foot drop into the creek. The butt of the tree is prob 4 feet in diameter and is pretty constant right down to the water. This was a big hunka wood ! As the soil bank eroded there was no more support for the roots to hold the tree. We had a pretty windy winter this year and this thing probably didn't stand a chance...
I guess it could be said that even my phone has multiple uses (more like my camera does ?!)
Because it is a knife forum...no post would be complete without a little about gear:
The machete in my pack is the latest Tramontina I did with a curly maple handle and a epoxy/ply sheath.
The upper 'guard' has been removed now and so has the 'finger hook' It didn't feel right and I was wary of how much handle it would take with it if it snagged on something. That and my Leatherman were all the steel I used this trip. A soup can billy, some food, some jute, a wool sweater, and a poncho liner were all I really used. The rest of the stuff was dead weight. All my gear came to only 20 lbs though, so it wasn't too bad.
