Snow

Word is that the kidz in seed camp are shovelling snow to clear the roads--which gives you some idea of how cold it still is.
SEED CAMPers WILL WALK Thru SNOW!!

Scouting continues for the gathering site. Until those who look for meadows in the woods (and springs, parking, kitchen spots, wood, safe roads, etc.) are still tromping in the snow! Flow snow, flow!

It is beautiful at spring council. A beautiful location to sit in circle with gatherers and be patient.

scouting continues

scouting continues, the snow is melting and that is exciting. spring
council site has been announced, and it is a lovely gravel pit for
parking with a much lovelier meadow in the woods for when we council.
will be there!

Drive slowly up the roads in WA. They are narrow and winding. Be
patient and be prepared. The drive back to ANY store is long. Bring
the things you will need.

gifford pichot sign

thought u might like it.

spring council! more photos

Enjoy

spring council!

More photos

spring council!

Here are some photos from the spring council site.
 Update:  Road 9300 is very steep, narrow, windy road -  take it slow, very slow and remember autos driving up the hills have the right of way. Folks should really try to minimize town runs.  There are no stores close by and being prepared to stay will eliminate extra travel on the roads.  Come prepared to stay for the week.

Due to the snow still remaining and folks who were scouting not being able to get into the sites to look around, there will be no decisions about site selection before June 18.  There may be opportunities for people to go scouting.  But they need to be prepared with winter weather gear, a basic knowledge of map-reading, and a car. 
 
 It is beautiful in the meadow.  Good parking in a gravel lot, and plenty of room for buses.  The folks on the land started to dig a shitter for spring council.  The picture shows a trench, and the soil removed but notice behind the pile of soil.  They carefully removed the plants that will be used to cover the shitter when it is closed! 


You can post the above, edit or reorder as needed!  It is cold tonight, but not snowing where we are.  We are not in the snow, the sites are in the snow!!

Snow go n' flow...
later,

Cleanup Effort

Everyone has left the site. The cleanup effort is now actually over.

Some of the hard-working folks on-site took offense to folks on-line
reporting cleanup to be over before its time, it gave some the
impression they were being written off while still there.

Perhaps we could be more sensitive to this in the future, and not
report cleanup as over until folks are off-site, or perhaps we could
wait until the FS releases the cleanup letter?

PS to Final Cleanup Report

P.S. Correction. Miss Yes bus of Fat Kids only tossed noodles and
assorted bean seeds in a not so hidden area near bushes not all
compost as my last post seemed to express. And hey they were a major
force at the clean up. And...many of the beans did sprout however it
stunk for days after the rain.

July 31 Final Cleanup Report

We are all out. We were gone in record time the fastest ever. The
Totem pole went to the Princess of the forest. It will most likely be
put in the lobby or yard of her Warren F.S. office. They were VERY
happy with the clean up. A sign off sheet will soon be faxed to
various Rainbows. Well just for the record best all around big
kitchen clean up was Fat Kids including their sister camp Death camp.
Best old guy kitchen was Musical Veggies however they did leave their
trash on 209 for our trash truck to take. Worst camp was Fairy Camp.
They left nearly everything for us to carry out. Tents, trash,
pillows, blankets, etc. etc. Worst dirty kid big kitchen was Shut Up
and Eat It. Worst old guy kitchen rehab was a tie, Lovin Ovens as
well as Instant Soup.( Both an unnatural eye sore and a
disappointment to our not so fussy F.S.). Worst post clean up let's
get out ta here was Fat Kids bus Miss Yes. They did a burn it party
by the bus and tossed compost after clean up on the way out of 209 .
Then it rained and stunk and gathered flys and bees for days along
the road for all the locals to see as they visited us. All in all it
went quite well.