aftermath of a wind storm

 Between our house and Jason's A-frame, one for tree fell on another, knocked it down, which then knocked over four live aspen trees.  With Steve Lankenau's help, we've decided the two fir trees are his, and the four aspens are ours.  He will leave them until there isn't so much sap, pby in a year or two.

huge root ball


Meanwhile, Mike and I went up this morning and took care of six trees across Veenstras' trail.  One came off the top of a very tall but dead fir tree.  Another one was a gigantic aspen tree which landed across the trail to the mine and also Veenstras' trail.  We haven't been up farther than the Y and assume there will be much more.  




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