Fort Douglas to Haw Creek Campground

Fort Douglas Trailhead for the OHT	Ready to start....	Valli makes the first cut...
Small saw job....	\ We have a new member.....Harley	Half way and so far its been good
Endangered or not?	This part of the OHT is used a lot....	Brenda
The Haw Creek Gang	\ We met Karen from Austin who was doing the whole OHT in 10 days....	We finished at Haw Creek Falls
Haw Creek	Kathy, Harley and Ray	There were a lot of old cars at the campgrounds today?
We were told that seven couples from seven States meet each year and bring their old cars and tour the area.	What a neat idea...	They were headed to several places while in the area ....you might have seen them on a backroad somewhere?
We hated to leave, but we had to head back to Fort Douglas Trailhead	A nice addition to this tree other than the OHT Marker	We cleaned the trail coming and going....
When we got back to Fort Douglas, Karen was there getting ready to hit the next ten miles...	...but we invited her to go with us to Pam's Grotto and she agreed to go	Not much water today
Karen had heard of Pam's Grotto from Tim's Book, which she was using his guidebook to follow the OHT	Heading back out....	...and found a green snake along the way...
Karen from Austin was quite interesting to talk to...	She was doing the entire OHT solo, she took off work for a year to do this trail and several others across the United States, wow!!!	Nice shirt

Chancel Spur to FR 1209

The Chancel Gang....plus me!	Our first downed tree, located on the Hurricane Creek Wilderness Area, we let it be....	Some of the downed trees we were able to remove
We relocated Mile Marker 118	We passed by many Mile Markers on the OHT	This was a big one....we are saving it for the chainsaw...
One of several downed trees	We had lunch at Elizabeth Creek	Chris
Back to work	It was a perfect weather day today	US at the Famous Rock
Blaise tried two different positions, neither worked.	Judy had no problem at all...the Hodges Tree	Chris made it, I didn't...!!!
Our last tree to cut	After 20 years doing this area, we were able to shuttle a vehicle to our get out place, it saved us 1.5 miles of hiking out....YEAH!	There were a lot of folks at Chancel, don't know where they went, we never saw anyone.