I went to college in Laramie. Going from sea level to 8000 feet kicked my azz. I defiantly can relate and you are accustomed to it. Get that leg healed up, chainsaw cuts are nasty healing .
This was in national forest land in an area called snowy range. It is part of the medicine bow national forest. Yes I had to get firewood permits and there are only certain areas they let you cut in.
Nice! Looks like the kind of cutting my buddy and I were doing a ways back. Yeah I hear ya about the altitude. I live at 4000 but we get up around that elevation sometimes. Sure does take it out of you. Yeah those sticks look ready for the stove. Great work thinning out! Love that trailer!
Mag, that altitude does better with us when we are younger! But at least it had to be much cooler and that would be a blessing for most of us.
It was a little cooler up there and that would have been like the double whammy if heat and altitude both.
Oh yes, a double whammy. I remember one time going to Yellowstone and for some odd reason it got hot. Along with the altitude, it did not take much to tire me out and I was in good shape at the time.
Guys, consider your chaps the same way coppers consider Kevlar. It’s only a few ounces extra weight and a few seconds extra time to don. This website where fellas mentioned wearing chaps as a necessity, prompted me to get a pair (of chaps, no wisecracks). I always look at injury prevention in the light that getting side-lined means I can’t do things I enjoy doing. That wood score is awesome, and getting dead standing wood helps reduce wildfire fuel, I suspect.
Beautiful pictures Mag Craft! I know how the heat and altitude can be....... It's a friend, we got into some BIG dead Tamarack @ about 8500 ft. These pictures where in the Fall a couple years ago.
