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Blue Canyon Page 2 |
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Crews assembling before the hike in |
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Happy volunteers |
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Group picture |
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Bill & Bill checking out the scene |
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There was still some snow on the ground Saturday morning |
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Bags of fertilizer and a good picture of the fencing that surrounded the growing areas |
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Growers felled trees that were in the way |
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Crew working in one of the grow sites picking up trash & drip tubing and dismantling the fencing |
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Shovel and coils of unused drip line found at the grow site |
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Trash was everywhere, scattered by bears and other animals |
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James and Emmy arranging the pickup zone before the arrival of the helicopter |
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Trash and drip tubing in the net ready for pickup |
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The second net, with trash and fencing |
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CHP Pilot and Flight Officer rig H-40 for external load operations as James and Kevin look on |
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James and Kevin taking in the view |
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James and his daughter Selena relaxing in H-40 |
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First net being lifted at the grow site |
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Grow site cleanup crew |
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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. |
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Mike, a new LEO helping coil the drip line |
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Matthew and Brandon moving a coil of drip line |
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Coils of drip line from the water source |
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Talk about accuracy, H-40 dropped the nets this close together, no searching for them in the brush |
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H-40 inbound to pick up the water source drip tubing |
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H-40 dropping the line to the ground crew |
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Rick exiting the pickup zone after hooking up the line to the nets |
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Water source nets lifting off |
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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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