Tuesday February 19, 2008 – Where Eagles Dare
The lead team of the US Forest Service, Tom , Joey, and Josh completed the next to last switchback today and are moving up to the last turn hopefully tomorrow. A team of professionals who continue to astound us as their two machines have now clawed their way to the very brink of the south face of the mountain. I have attached a photo of the team so you can appreciate their tenacity.
It is so steep here that the volunteers were moved down the trail because the machines were directly above them and there was concern that some of the larger boulders may roll down to the lover level. The view from this last switchback literally looks like a spot where only eagles would dare to roost.
A special word of thanks to the US Forest team for offering three of the trail dogs a training class on proper utilization of chain saws on the trail. Randy is a true professional with a great sense of humor. We all came away from the class with a great deal of really useful information and a clear understanding of the safest procedures in chain saw utilization.
Tomorrow will be a beautiful day with warm temps. We will have a special friend join us tomorrow from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Celia Story. Celia has been a supporter of the Vista trail sense the beginning and is a hands on reporter that has to come to the site to develop her great stories.
We will meet at the same place on Hickory Nut Mountain rd to morrow at 8:30 am.
Bring a lunch and plenty fluids and join us for these final days of scaling Ole Hickory Nut Mt.
Come when can and leave when you want.
Jerry
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