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DOC FORGEY CABIN

Trip Date: August 1975

Trip Purpose: Locating a cutting site, felling and moving logs to build site for construction the following year

Trip Crew:

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Key Locations

Map showing key locations covered throughout this trip.

North

Traveling north through endless miles of boreal forest

Trip from The Pas to Thompson

Dave Bainard and Bob Stremba on the train from The Pas to Thomson Manitoba

John Jolly and T.H. St Clair

CNN Train conductor John Jolly and T.H. St Clair

Train Stop

Bush Plane

T.H. St Clair inside the twin Otter bush plane.

Equipment

must have

The Hike In

3 Mile hike through bug infested muskeg swamp

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Post Swamp Crossing

Jeff St Clair

Jeff St Clair

Setting Up Camp

Summer Camp

T.H. St Clair

T.H. St Clair at Summer Camp

First Log

Mechanical Advantage

Still tough work even with the log rail

Rinse and repeat

Repeating the process of felling, sectioning, limb removal (scrubbing) and transporting to the river.

Scouting Logs at Cutting Site

Rolling Log

Log Collection

Logs still need to be transported from the cutting site to the build site.

Log Rafts

Tying logs into rafts to float to the cabin site

Log Rafts

Log Rafts

Log Rafts

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