campground cleaning

We've been cleaning campgrounds for a few months. Not glorious, but it must be done. Nobody wants to pitch a tent on soggy leaves. Warm towels and mints are on the way.

Raking tends to be the name of the game.

Grime time.

Setting up the pressure washer.

Rake the ground, rake the tables, rake the roofes, rake everything.

When the fog lifts you remember where you are. Mossy big leafs, all about it.

Orient yourself with your surroundings.

Some anti-slip installation.

Sometimes it sucks to blow, mostly it doesn't.

Just in time for lunch.

Sometimes we drive far distance to rake leaves, it takes a lot of gas to fire ten cylinders.

They hook up the grub for the multi-day trips.

Old sitka spruce and big leaf maple, lording their land up the Quinault.

It's important to maintain a work/life balance. Kalaloch provides.

Big cedar.

Walkerfest

The great Walker Clan once held a grand festival full of beer, pretzels, and large submarine sandwiches. The festival died out, but the spirit lived on waiting to be rekindled. On April 27th, 2013, the descendants of the Walkerfest pioneers reignited the past. As long as the keg flows...

A hearty breakfast. Morning-pong.

Bobbing for apples, not for the faint of heart.

The Brothers Walker. Ben and Max.

corps members

Some pretty alright people saving the salmon out on the peninsula. Here are just a few of them.

spring

The light seems to change when winter ends.

Cape Flattery

Warrenton Cannery Road

US 101

Barnes Point

deer lake

Took a tour trip up the Sol Duc in April. Snow shoes definitely work better over the bumpy terrain. Found a sweet little steep zone next to Deer Lake to get some turns in.

Winter wonderland in the parking lot.

Big trees and little bridges.

Sol Duc Falls.

Low country snowfield means snow in the boots.

Heather switching to skis and skins.

The trail is cozy. The trees are talking to us.

The trail becomes the ditch.

Deer Lake.

High country. Basalt ridges, old trees and snow. Drop in on that.

hot lunch

seeding

After putting some plants in the ground we toss some seed on the ground. Mellow days on the river.

Lake Aldwell, seed's-eye-view.

Teamwork.

Fill your sack and don't spill. Rachele knows.

Hangin' out with the LEKT. AB and Wilson.

Trevor, spreading his seed.

Misty day of seeding on Lake Mills.

Packing seed, pouring seed.