These are a few random pictures from the summer 2000 season.

The whole crew working together to finish up the trees on a block in the final minutes of a contract.

A photo of part of the crew, in the middle of the first girdling block.

Ruby Valerio, girdling a tree.

Lisa Ponto and Jean-Martin Brault, on the girdling block.

The girdling crew.

Scooter in 2000, standing beside a tree that we planted in 1995.

A row of grain elevators in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, near an independent contract that some of our camp has worked on for a couple of years now after Folklore's regular season ended.

An old barn in a field on the side of the highway that runs between Edson and Whitecourt.

A black bear, hiding in the grass.

A rainbow over a block. We see a lot of rainbows, and quite often double and even partial-triple rainbows.

Welcome to Alberta! This is the sign on the TransCanada Highway coming in from Saskatchewan.

Welcome to British Columbia! This is the sign on the Yellowhead Highway coming from Jasper.

A kilometre sign on one of the logging roads. All traffic on these roads is supposed to use radios to continually keep other traffic on the road notified about their positions. This is especially important for planters to be aware of during the haul season when heavily loaded logging trucks can suddenly appear around tight corners on very narrow logging roads.

Foreman Chris Durupt.

Ben Hobbs, spending a rainy day loading boxes of trees into slings for the chopper.

Brent Stewart.

Foreman Paul Fleischhauer.

Kent Borgstrom.

Rob Korzan.

Head checker Mike "Scirolli" Hoar.

A photo of a quad bridge that we built over a small brook.

Sarah Mangos.

A random block on the side of the road.

A corderoy quad path through a swamp runoff.

Andrew "Swaggart" Thompson.

Pulling out a truck that slid into the ditch. Sometimes the narrow roads that aren't stone-based in Alberta can prove to be pretty impassable whenever it rains.

Josh MacCallum.

Kevin Blasko.

Chris Durupt's "Fist" truck (Forestry Insulated Seedling Transport), taking the crew home for supper.

Ryan Shantz, guest planter for a week from one of the other Folklore camps.

Foreman Nathan Scholey with checker Ruby Valerio.

This sign always puzzled me. Located just beside the turnoff to the old MacGregor logging camp, on Highway 16 about an hour east of Prince George, it says to be careful of moose on the road for 88km. Not 86km, or 90km, but 88km. I was curious, and drove 88km up the road to see where the "cut-off" was that moose stopped being a problem, but it was just a huge, featureless stretch of woods.

We saw this sign in Ontario on the drive home. It just amused me because of the American tourists that were pointing at it, saying how silly the Canadians are.

A herd of buffalo in Alberta.

Sundown on the prairies.

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