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The LEO's on this NF have two sets for a pair of 800cc ATV's they acquired about three years ago. Cost was over 50% of the ATV's themselves, as I recall. They wanted them for access during the shoulder seasons when we don't always have contiguous snow coverage on the road system, as...

NOW I find out :roll:...all these years I coulda had a lot easier time getting to some of that damn backwoods winter work... :|: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nTDNLUzjkpg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I don't have access to a snow cat, or I'd for damn sure have been using it. The grooming is done by a cooperative agreement with one of the downhill ski area operators...they have a long term permit for use of Forest Service land. Grooming a few of the nearby X-C trails is part of the permit...

I'm quite sure my young Hatian and Nicaraguan friends would agree :D.

Well, wouldn't you? After all, the damn tree fell down, just like that :lol: . No sawlogs from this cutter :) . Only a Canucklehead would choose to fall a tree standing down in that deep, slippery-sided hole :D.

Finally, here's the ALAP work :lol: .

This one had to be placed with exacting accuracy, for there was little room in the stand to put it without risking a hang up. In the last shot you can see at the top of the frame the small notch in the crowns of the stand that I was shooting at. I'm happy to say it fell to the lay as I gunned...

I spent yesterday out with the district's snow ranger, felling some trees on the edges of a newly constructed X-C ski trail. This trail gets groomed with a snow cat, and a few places they left it too narrow for the machine to negotiate. Snowshoe in about a mile with my 460 and the rest of the...