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Christmas cruise

by glchandler
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Absolute rule #475 for driving on logging roads miles and miles away from civilization. Always, and I mean ALWAYS carry some sort of saw with you---especially if you are driving late afternoon, the wind is blowing, and very few other people (if any at all) know where you are at.


And especially follow this rule if you wish to come back out the same logging road you went in an hour or so ago----and please notice that we ALMOST made it back to the pavement and an occasional passing car! Three hours later found a guy with a chain saw and within minutes were back in the Christmas cruising mode! And another YES---yes the tree did fall across the road after we went by on our way in.
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Gordon, Gordon, Gordon. Take a saw? You non-smokers drive me nuts.

    Take a lighter...........and marshmallows.
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    • Profile picture of the author glchandler
      Gordon, Gordon, Gordon. Take a saw? You non-smokers drive me nuts.

      Take a lighter...........and marshmallows.
      Laugh.....laugh....laugh! Then thought that through.

      Forest service road...probably would soon have a 'gate' across to deny access. Why not light that log up and start roasting?

      Probably would have been rescued within seconds by the local USFS (no fire permit), the county deputies (no coffee/doughnuts)...the local tree huggers (save the old growth)...as well as the 'don't tread on the snow' group( yea--pristine snow fall is the only way!). Oh yes...and the save the whales group from the coast (it was a LARGE tree after all).

      And me without a marshmallow to my name!
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Now I'm laughing Gordon. Quick rescue because of fire? Um..........don't count on it here in the states.

    When I got stranded for 4 days in the Ochoco Mountains one february, I hiked to a cleared area on top of one peak. There were small pines felled everywhere. I gathered them up and made a bonfire that was the likes of hell busting through the surface. Nobody ever saw it. When I talked to the forest service days later when I finally had walked out to the main road, they claimed they looked for me but couldn't find me. To their credit they were busy pulling some city slicker off a mountain on a stretcher at the time I was reported missing. But I told them I put a fire up the size that would look like the whole mountain was about to come down and they never even noticed it. Seriously, that blaze was the size of most people's living rooms if not a tad bigger. My hair singed when all the little needles combusted and I didn't get out of the way in time. LOL. And the wood was damp so there was one heck of a LOT of smoke to signal someone with. I guess they figured if someone had the strength to light a fire that size they were plenty warm and active and didn't need them to come in and give them a lift out of there.
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