Our week started off around Bumping Lake doing fire assessments. We found some pretty neat natural wonders up there. There was an awesome mountain spring shooting out ice cold water. It tasted pretty darn good ! I loved how the water iced up where it hit the ground.
We also found a tiny cave in one of the rock walls that we drove by. Sarah decided to check it out. Turns out it was only a few feet deep, but it was still neat.
The rest of the week was spent helping out the other Yakima crew cutting willow stakes. The second day started with willow cutting at a site around the Nile. Then we met up with the other crew and we all went to a site past Moxee.
What a beautiful lookin stand of willows.
Chris somehow fell down . . .
So Mike and Jeff helped him up.
This is only a few hundred willows, but not a bad start. When we finished there, it was back to the facility for a little more cleanup duties. This time it was stringing pots together.
The last morning our crew went back to Moxee to get 600 more willow stakes. Then it was out to the planting site out at La Salle to meet up with the other crew. We got a good number of stakes put in the ground before we went back to the facility.
The water pick made it a bit easier to put several stakes in the ground at a time.
Our crew had tools to rehandle and the other crew had tools to sharpen. It was a lot of fun working with those guys this week.
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