These pictures were taken in late May and June of 2004, while planting for Weldwood of Canada Ltd. (Hinton Division), north of Edson, Alberta.

Paul, getting ready to have his truck pulled out of the ditch after an oil tanker forced him off the road. In encounters like this, the lighter vehicle often ends up in the ditch out of necessity - it is one of the rules of the road. At least people always help pull each other out afterwards.

Matt, spraying down one of the trucks.

At Gateway Honda, where they are graciously fixing the trailer hitch of one of the quad trailers, which was bent somewhat so the trailer didn't ride properly. Gateway does a ton of work for us, and keeps our quads running despite the pretty rough conditions that we put them through.

Nigel Briggs, our camp's resident rock star, and a pretty helpful guy all around.

Part of the fire that my quad started.

An aerial photo of the remains of the fire.

The A-Star, dropping a bucket of water on the fire.

Me, trying to help the heli attack crew to put out the smouldering edges of the fire.

The quad that started the fire. As you can see, there isn't that much mud built up on the exhaust right now.

Bringing piss-cans of water to help put out the hot spots on the edges of the fire.

Another photo taken from the chopper.

A pine tree that has been growing for a couple years.

A seismic line leading into one of our blocks.

Carrying boxes of trees across the log bridge leading into one of our blocks.

Walking through the river downstream from the log bridge.

A bird's nest in the grass.

A family of mice making another nest in my camper trailer. I evicted them after I took the photo.

Loading the truck full of empty tree boxes and plastic box liners. Everything has to be separated completely for the landfill.

A large pile of empty wax cardboard tree boxes at the dump.

Tim's truck, stuck on the landing. You can see that the slope leading down to the truck is not very steep. Nonetheless, I had to use a winch to pull my truck up that slope. Tim's truck, which is caught in a water bar, stayed their for seven days before the ground dried up enough that we could pull it out.

Mud caked on the rear wheel of the truck. It is little wonder that we get stuck fairly often, and spend a lot of money at the spray wash, trying to wash the wheels and brakes out every time we go to town, to try to minimize the cost of brake jobs on the truck during the season.

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