Nearly2

  • GET 2024 day 20, Oct 20, Sunday
  • Start Nave Spring campsite
  • End Nave Spring campsite
  • Continued sawing between Nave Spring and Myers cabin, mostly near the cabin

Blue skies and no sign of rain help the ongoing effort. On the slope up to Myers Cabin is a huge tangle of downed trees, with no visible tread.

Most can be moved with no-cut, and eventually a way is cleared.

About 15 large logs remain on this section, that I had hoped to complete today. The larger logs take quite a while to cut solo, perhaps 30 minutes or more apiece, so that could be another full day.

Finished audiobook Son of the Wolf, by Jack London.

Sawcy

  • GET 2024 day 19, Oct 19, Saturday
  • Start Nave Spring campsite
  • End Nave Spring campsite
  • Continued sawing between Nave Spring and Myers cabin. So many blowdowns.

Rain showers pinged the tent throughout the night, and threatened to continue in the morning. With the sun hidden by clouds, conditions were very cold and wet. I tried sawing for an hour, but had to retreat to the tent to warm up afterwards. Then the weather cleared a bit, the sun came out, and work could resume for real.

I spent most of the day working where the trail follows along a drainage, clearing trees and trying to make the trail easier to see.

In distance I did not get very far, maybe a quarter of a mile. More work remains on this section for tomorrow.

Finished audiobook Gamblers World and The Yillian Way, by Keith Laumer.

Sawlitude

  • GET 2024 day 18, Oct 18, Friday
  • Start Nave Spring campsite
  • End Nave Spring campsite
  • Sawing and lopping on Shipman between Nave Spring and Myers Cabin, about 1.0 miles. Not complete. Cleared 83 trees

My plan is to work towards Myers Cabin,  systematically clearing all downed trees in this section. However, some areas had vast numbers of downed trees, and the actual trail was hard to calculate, so I skipped those until I could verify the trail from the other direction.

Lunch was at the Myers Cabin site.

Myers Cabin to Nave Spring campsite on Shipman Trail, 1.0 mile

The rest of the day I worked on the difficult areas, which I hope to complete tomorrow.

Finished audiobook Time Crime, by H Beam Piper.