Falling into winter
A few months ago, this forest was filled with the voices of campers and Wilderness Northwest staff talking of the 6 days of creation, announcing their group names, singing songs around the campfire and hearing shouts of “look out for the director’s golfcart!” or “I’ve fallen down and I can’t find my buddy to help me up ’cause he got lost on the Wilderness trail”. These very same woods are filled with the gentle landing of thousands of snow flakes, an occassional “kerplunk” as a limb or shower snowballs fall to the ground, but mostly it’s silence of a camp on the Duckabush River…..void of it’s cherished summer campers. Wilderness Northwest is bedded down for the winter and blanketed with snow.
There’s a road in there somewhere to the playground
Camp was closed up and loads of leaves were removed from the roads which are now covered in branches and trees from the recent storm damage of snow, ice, and wind. After record rainfall in November, the sudden cold snap that took us by surprise, broke some water pipes and lead the way for the 15-16 inches of snow at the end of the month that still remains on the ground.
Anyone for a winter rendezvous??
However much debris remains on the roads and grounds, the roofs that were replaced this fall still stand and seem to be doing their job despite the weather.
The cabin roof is still holding
At the cookhouse
The Duckabush River remains as you remember it…..just a bit colder
