A view of Tim & Sumaya's block, across the valley. This shows the lower third of the block. It was pretty big at a quarter of a million trees.
And here is a small portion of the block that the rest of the camp was on. This block was even bigger, at more than half a million trees.
I'm not sure if Tim Roth's truck was supposed to be sitting here, or if he had intended for it to go farther.
The lineup for supper was pretty long, since all the crews seemed to show up within a few minutes of each other. This wasn't a problem for most of the summer, because on other contracts the crews were usually on a number of smaller blocks, finishing blocks each day, and therefore they would show up in a "window" of time that varied by an hour or more. With this contract, being on big blocks for nine days straight, everyone worked to a set time and the whole camp came home almost as a group.
A view inside the cook trailer at dinner time.
Driving home from the block late one night, after running trees and setting up caches for the following day.
Tim & Sumaya, showing off the presents that they got from their crew on "Christmas in July." On July 25th, Stephane made us a fantastic "Christmas" turkey dinner. Sumaya has a nice pink hat and protective glasses, and Tim has his own new pair of home-made garbage bag coveralls, with his initials on the front.
Here we catch a surprise photo of Tim checking out a map in the trailer, and discover that his new coveralls are "bottomless."
A photo of the camp Christmas tree.
This was a bit of a surprise. This tiny hummingbird flew into my truck one morning and landed on my hand.
A rainbow on the block.
A photo of Tim & Sumaya's crew, having a morning tailgate safety meeting.
Giving out T-Shirts at the end-of-year party at Earl's in Prince George.
And for the final photo of the year, we've managed to capture definitive evidence to confirm the age-old rhetorical, "Does a bear shit in the woods?"