20. The Cut
More squalls slammed the West Coast more often, but still they made it to work.
Hacki pointed to a monolithic tree that had crashed down sometime during the night. “Let’s get that one first.”
The windy remnants of a powerful north Pacific storm still slammed them with a steady, hard rain. Acres and Maurice were unable to work in the unsafe conditions, so Acres stayed in camp. Ethan, Maurice, and Hacki went to the claim to put in another workday. Ethan rarely wore rain gear, because he was always wet with sweat or soaked from pulling the dripping rope to logs, clambering in and out of the skiff at the beach, searching for or digging under logs in the soaked underbrush making a choker hole. Only if the wind became too strong and he got cold did he put on the waterproof gear to
