SOOOOOOO started up our first job with the chainsaws last week. It will be continuing into this week as well. Pretty much we've been working for this "wilderdude" on his private property up in Buffalo Pass outside of Steamboat Springs. The beetles got his land good, so we are basically bucking (cutting up) a lot of trees that had fallen and putting them into slash piles, so that come winter he can burn them and make room for grass and new trees to grow! We've cut down a few dead trees, but it's mostly been the bucking and limbing and dragging wood into these massive piles. I can already feel my body getting stronger. 9 hours of manual labor 4 days a week, then Friday we work for 4 hours. Along with not having drank alcohol in almost a month, I can def tell i'm healthier!
Basically, our routine is we get up at 6am...eat breakfast, then make our lunches for the day. Then we start work @ 7...break at 10:30...work...lunch @ 12... work... break @ 2:30...work... finish at 3:30... then we do saw cleaning/maintenance for the last half our of the day. All of our saws are named after Presidents. My personal favorites are James Madison (he's the small saw) and good ole' Millard Fillmore.
We also got a new crew member this week. From the beginning, my crew time has been adorned with a multitude of Hook references (starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman). Everynight before bed myself, and my friends Jake and Skeeter (yes like from Doug) yell 'Goodnight Neverland' regardless of the time. SOOO when we heard we were getting a new member, naturally we started calling him Peter. Come to find out his name is Chris and he is from the Cape! But we've just kept on calling him Peter anyways. He's a good sport about it.
Another new addition to the group is our "poop chair"...nothing like digging a hole and squatting in the woods, but it gets old after a while...sooooo we bought a canvas camping chair and cut out a nice little hole in the bottom- buttocks size appropriate of course- and duct taped the edges. Then we dug a deeeeeppp hole out in the woods and VOILA. The comfort of a cool mountain breeze on your bottom aint so bad. Just as long as a bear and her cubs don't come up behind you it's quite freeing!
This weekend we went to Dinosaur National Monument which is Colorado/utah Border. The place where they had all the bones was closed though for renovations, so that kind of blew... :( but getting out to the desert was nice! Our camping spot was SICKKKK. It overlook a canyon with the Yampa River at the bottom. Technically we were there illegally though because we didn't have a back country permit, so we got kicked out and had to drive to a random spot last night and didn't get in until late. I slept in the van because it was too dark to put up my tent. Today it's town time. So chillin on the internet.. prob go get a coffee.. a book.. do some laundry.. good shtufffff.
Still loving it out here! Missing everyone though. xo
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