More Pictures

I'm back again with more pictures. If you haven't been here in a while, the post right after this one just went up last night.

Our 22-person Thanksgiving table:
This wasn't even all the food:
The next bunch of pictures are from the Hike of Insanity that TK, Heather, and I did:
We didn't use any trails. This is what we hiked through most of the time. Yes, I'm glad I'm still alive:

I believe we hiked to the top of that thing on the right, called Berry Ridge:

He wasn't actually climbing here, but it's a cool picture:
I'm so glad my camera has a timer:
At the top was this cool boulder suspended between two other boulders:
Ok, no more Hike pictures. This thing that looks like Eeyore's house was up near Longview, so Heather and Tomm climbed in:
Heather and Becky carrying one of those ridiculously heavy rounds:
TK and Lindsey:
Me and Tomm. Why do I look like I'm struggling so much more than everyone else?:
Jess and Rob:
Loading rounds into Angie's truck. We seriously had to get those giant rounds into a truck that was nearly the height of my shoulder:
The team on the deck of the lodge with Angie. Back row: Rob, Michala, Becky, Jess, me, TK, Tomm, Christina. Front row: Marquis, Heather, Lindsey, Angie.
Rob starting on the mural he painted in the classroom:
Tomm, me, Lindsey, and Jess in a cool tree that was growing out of boulders:
Sawing a tree trunk so it would fit in Angie's truck in the last week we were there, when we loaded the truck to haul away brush piles:
Tomm's new velociraptor tattoo!:
Hauling freshly split wood off to the wood pile:
Splitting wood:
Rob with his completed mural:
None of these are actually the bird boxes I made (these pictures weren't from my camera - I wasn't there when these were made), but this is the style:
Some of them turned out...interesting:
On our last morning, right before we left, we wanted to take a picture of the team with Angie, Rick, and Rafa (the executive director). We gathered, had someone take this picture with like 4 different cameras. Then right after we all started to walk away, Michala came out of the bathroom. We retook the picture with her in it, but I didn't add my camera into the mix this time. Back row: Rick, Marquis, Becky, Tomm, me, Rob, TK, Rafa. Front row: Heather, Lindsey, Jess, Christina, Angie.

Well, those are some of the best pictures. There are many many more, but I think this gives sort of a summary of our lumberjacking activities.

If you're interested, TK and I made a slide show (with music and everything!) for the Project Debrief we had to do for Vaughn and the important people. It includes quite a few pictures that haven't made it onto my computer. If you leave a comment or send me an email or something with your email address, I'd be happy to send it to anyone. Vaughn told Christina that he was really impressed with our debrief presentation.

Next up: A 3-day road trip in the AmeriVan to New Orleans! The 11 of us will be living in a 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom house with couches but no beds in the upper 9th ward. We leave bright and early Saturday morning.

Well, Break's Over

To tell you the truth, I've been putting off this post. I couldn't post pictures while I was at Calwood because it probably would have made them go over their megabyte limit. This means that I now have 200+ pictures that haven't been posted. (They're not ALL mine. Several of us put our pictures on each other's computers.) That means I need to post some the next time I update this thing. I hope you can see what a daunting task this seems to be. I meant to at least start this over our winter break, but I kept putting it off. So...I'll do my best.

Our first views of Calwood:
The sign marks the beginning of the 2.3 mile drive up the VERY steep dirt road. This is of course after the 20 minutes or so you've been driving up the mountains since leaving Boulder.The split wood pile (I would have needed a panoramic camera to get the whole thing in one shot):
Michala, TK, Lindsey, and Heather:
Tomm and Rob:
I don't remember why, but Michala climbed on top of the slash piles we worked on for our first day:
Don't snow pants make for a flattering photo? (Hauling logs down the slippery icy muddy snowy hill):
The logs we hauled down the slippery icy muddy snowy hill:
The hydraulic wood splitter:
The view from (the aptly named) Longview, where Becky, Jess, Marquis, and I cut and bundled barbed wire (See the benches? Apparently weddings and other events happen here):
Foraging through the snowy Narnia-like woods to find barbed wire:
I don't think this is quite all the barbed wire we cut, but here are some of our bundles:
The church in Jamestown:
The Merc! (Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, the restaurant/bar/general store):
Angie cutting down the tree to build our bridge with:
It took several of us to move the tree trunks into place:
Angie again:
Why do I make such weird faces sometimes? Nobody knows.
The bridge group:
The bridge! (A few more boards should probably be added, but this was all we brought out there with us):

Well, I think that's a good start. This might take a few posts to get in as many pictures as I want to get in. Sorry for such a long delay!