Some Assembly Required

Glad Someone Else Is Managing This

So a couple of weeks ago I get the call from Dave. "The logs at the mill are not good enough. We'll have to get them off the wood lot in Donald." No worries I thought, how hard can this be. I clearly underestimated the effort it would take to get these cut and out of the woods.

The drive to Golden on Saturday was pretty benign. Leave here around 5:30am. Watch the sun rise in the rearview mirror somewhere near Lake Louise. Very pretty.

For some reason there was a plethora of wildlife sightings on this drive. I saw a herd of elk, couple of bald eagles, a herd of mountain goat and too many deer to count. Deciding I wanted to make good time, I didn't stop to take any photo's. That will no make for good blogging, but I am sure that there will be more wildlife photos to come.

Stop for construction outside LL, stop for a coffee in Field and in town by 9am. 10:30 I find myself in Dave's truck on the back road of a back road about 30km past Golden in a town called Donald. Nice town, at least I think it is a town. It is definitely a place, or was a place, of this I am sure. It has a sign on the road. I don't know of anymore evidence I need. If you look in Wiki you will find that Donald was an original CPR crossing and is now listed in the list of BC ghost towns. So basically a bad spot for night life. Good spot to get logs though.

So we pull into a cleared patch on the side of this woods road and voila, about 100 logs, just sitting there waiting for some log builder (John) to go pick out the best 70 or so.

The way the wood lot works is pretty cool. They do selective logging so you get to only cut the trees that you need. So they do the first selection in the woods and the final pick on the ground. The benefit of this is that it is much quicker to lay out the logs since you have already had them hand picked in the woods anyway.

Big trees though.....