Blue Canyon

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Crews assembling before the hike in
   

Happy volunteers
   

Group picture
   

Bill & Bill checking out the scene
   

There was still some snow on the ground Saturday morning
   

 
   

Bags of fertilizer and a good picture of the fencing that surrounded the growing areas
   

Growers felled trees that were in the way
   

 
   

Crew working in one of the grow sites picking up trash & drip tubing and dismantling the fencing
   

Shovel and coils of unused drip line found at the grow site
   

Trash was everywhere, scattered by bears and other animals
   

James and Emmy arranging the pickup zone before the arrival of the helicopter
   

Trash and drip tubing in the net ready for pickup
   

The second net, with trash and fencing
   

CHP Pilot and Flight Officer rig H-40 for external load operations as James and Kevin look on
   

James and Kevin taking in the view
   

James and his daughter Selena relaxing in H-40
   

First net being lifted at the grow site
   

Grow site cleanup crew
   

Tom & Steve bundling up the water source drip line. There were two lines running more than 4,000 ft from the grow site to the top of a waterfall.
   

Mike, a new LEO helping coil the drip line
   

Matthew and Brandon moving a coil of drip line
   

Coils of drip line from the water source
   

Talk about accuracy, H-40 dropped the nets this close together, no searching for them in the brush
   

H-40 inbound to pick up the water source drip tubing
   

H-40 dropping the line to the ground crew
   

 
   

Rick exiting the pickup zone after hooking up the line to the nets
   

Water source nets lifting off
   

Since Shane was with us, it not only snowed Friday but also again on Sunday as we were trying to leave. John of a local 4WD club assists us in getting the tool trailer up over the hill out of Blue Canyon
   

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