Trapline Chores

dboles

dboles

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In the last lttle while I have quit trapping land animals for this season.
Doesnt mean that a trappers chores are done.Theres always something to do out there-fixing the cabins,brushing trail,bridging little creeks.
What has been hanging over my head lately is having to shovel my cabins and out buildings.I had it done 2 weeks ago,since then we have had literally feet of snow.
For the last couple days been breaking trail out to one of my camps.Today I tackled the task of shovelling a trail across 2 avalanches that have come down across the old logging road I use.
Heres the back of the pickup theres a sled under there
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In order to keep a snow trail working we are constantly widening the exsisting one.Here I managed to get off the trail and stuck.
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The sled back on the trail after much shovelling.Notice all the avalanche paths in the background
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The foreman taking 5 on a snow slide
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Avalanches do not always cascade down the mountain with soft billowing snow.At an earlier time this winter we had a thaw.When the snow is damp or wet it forms balls of ice.Here you can see the balls of ice,they are like cement and would/do grind anything in its path to pulp
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Steep is hard to capture in photos.Heading out for home bit to the right and its a wild ride to the river a hundred and fifty feet or so

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The truck
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Tomorrow I will be back at it breaking trail out to the cabin,should be a few more av's to cross and couple creeks-hope the bridges are still in place.
Be sure to take pictures for you all
Dan'l
 
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Awesome photos, and what a beautiful shot of your dog! Believe me, the steepness shows in your pics...amazing territory you operate in.
 
I would give my left nut to come with you on your trapline, amazing country
 
Always love seeing your pics buddy, give the foreman a big pat from me ;)
 
you ever choose to sell that truck, it has my name painted all over it.

love that dog man. Sure do miss that region too.
 
Yesterday was a huge day.Luckily for me 2 friends volunteered to go out and help me shovel.I was sure glad to have them along.When we finally broke trail into the cabin there was so much snow on the roof that the door wouldnt open.I keep a ladder inside. How to get on the roof? I tried to use a piece of wire to flip the lock on a window while the others took a rope and sawed off a corner.Once the corner fell off I was able to dig myself a perch on the edge of the roof.I think there was between 8-9 feet of snow on all buildings.
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Yours truly
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My help are tall men 6'4.Im a shorty 6' compared to them
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Once some snow was off a fire was lit and the soup pail put on to simmer.
I can usually do a little shovelling and get the roof to slide.We had to shovel it all the -10c temp kept the snow solid.
The cabin was built steep to shed snow its 16 feet tall from floor to roof tip
The woodshed cabin and outhouse where all cleaned off
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Woke up this morning to a snowfall warning of over 16 inches (40cm)expected
Dan'l
 
That is unbelievable. Is that typical for your winter? or is that from the last couple of weeks/months? We had a really wet November in NW montana, but haven't any big accumulations since.
 
I absolutley love your pics Dan'l. That's just a ridiculous amount of snow. If you ever need an extra hand on the trapline, I'd love to get up in that area for a few days;)


Thanks the all the trapline posts, I love em:thumbup:
 
Okay, I have been bitching about all the snow we have had this winter.

I will stop now. :o
 
I love these pics. I feel like I have no right to complain about snow anymore. :D
 
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