Today our crew’s block faced across the Nelson pass at the block we’ll be planting tomorrow.

The other crew was already working on it when I took this pic­ture through a break in the rain, so you can just make out their truck parked at a landing on top of the block. It’s deep, I would esti­mate 120 trees from road to far­thest tree­line. It’s a high-​​lead cable block, so it’s likely well over 60 degrees steep, just as steep as it looks. Access is only from the top, it’s wider at the bottom than the top, it’s too steep for an ATV, and last I heard the guy we nor­mally hire to hike trees into the remote cor­ners of our hilly clearcuts has a hole in his foot from ill-​​fitting shoes.

Today was a good day. Tomorrow should be interesting.