Posted: 12/14/2005 8:40:34 PM EDT
Last Friday I went up Lolo pass road to get a Christmas tree. We found some good nobles about 100' up a bank. It was really steep and I had to cut a path in 3-4 feet of snow with my hands(left the wee shovel at home) and move a bunch of snow before I could climb further. After clearing a nearly 100' snow path, which took 2 hours, I settled on the closest tree to me. My tree looked better from the road but I was tired and all wet so it had to do. I cut it and noticed that it was bigger than I thought and had some bare spots. I hucked the tree downhill and trimmed it to fit in the truck. Here are some pictures of the tree.  
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I grew up about 1 mile off that road. SPent many summers in those hills! This time of year it is very nice up there...as you can see! |
Patty, Lolo pass curves around the West and North side of Mt. Hood. Goes from 26 to 35 by Dee and Parkdale. there's a spot to go shooting on the South end of it when it just enters the national forest. Not my favorite spot to shoot for safety reasons. Nox  |
I only went up mayble 4 or 5 miles up lolo pass road. For refrence my brother is 6'5" and that's him holding the tree. Here is a map for patty  maps.yahoo.com/maps.py?&addr=&csz=Zigzag,OR. |
I brought the 870 incase I needed to quickly "harvest" a tree. If I had some slugs and a scope I could have sniped the tree from the road  .
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Thank you! I had no idea. I was thinking pass between Washington and Montana. Beautiful area. |
It's a burn room. You seee these things about smoking in bed, how fast a Xm-as tree can go up, etc. Usually hits the local scare news around middle of December. |
z3bigdaddy that was awesome!  Now that's the way Christmas Trees should be cut down!!Great looking family too!  |