Fired Up!

We finally got around to getting the slash pile burned up at Vertical Ranch. Gentry went up on Friday morning and spent some time getting everything ready, putting wet tarps on the camper cover and wetting the ground around the pile to be burned. It was about 12-15 feet tall at least and 30 feet long, 20 feet wide. There were a lot of branches, some logs, and all the stumps from when we cleared the road and the camp site. Gentry put straw soaked in diesel fuel on it...with a ladder....sigh. He lit it at about 10:30. The kids and I came up at about 3:00 and most of the big fire was gone. We were all a bit disappointed by that but relieved that he hadn't started the forest on fire. We had originally thought that we would wait until snow. Gent said it only took a couple of hours to burn down the bush part of the pile. Monday it was still smoldering- some of the stumps were actually very deep in a pile of coals and Gentry has been digging them out to get them to burn faster. Some of the pictures show him throwing the stumps on the fire. He came home with a huge load of dirty smokey clothes (about 12-20 feet high, 30 feet long and 20 feet wide) but he is back safe.