We Had No Chain Saw, So That's As Far As We Went

We managed to collect a decent number of telescope shiners on Saturday from Hurricane Creek. But we didn't quite make it to our regular site on the Walls of Jericho property because we were stopped by a large fallen oak tree on the road. Nick had emailed me the night before to advise me that there was a downed tree on the state property, and he would meet us there Saturday morning with a chainsaw to remove it. But we encountered a large downed tree not even a mile down the gated road to the Walls. We thought it might be the one Nick had mentioned, so we hung out for about 80 minutes and waited for him to show. When he didn't, we turned around and collected telescopes from the creek at an old ford. Nick told me yesterday that he had taken an ATV down the horse trail from the main entrance, didn't find us, but cut up the tree by himself and cleared the road. He didn't even know that there was a second downed tree on private property leading in to the Walls. When we go in August we're bringing a chain saw with us, which of course means we won't come across any downed trees...

Here's a picture of the downed tree, a really solid oak. Kevin is on the ATV that was able to get around the tree with some difficulty; my truck certainly couldn't get over or around the tree.