A Young Widower's Tale
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Adventures in Christmas Tree Hunting I had the opportunity to do something this weekend I’ve never done before: Go Christmas tree hunting. It was loads of fun. I’m already looking forward to doing it next year. If you’ve never gone Christmas tree hunting before, it goes something like this: You wake up at 5:00 a.m., get dressed, and meet your brother-in-law in a park in ride off the freeway. Then you drive for two hours through towns you’ve never heard of like Fairview and Mount Pleasant. This isn’t a bad thing. The conversation is good and for part of the drive you get a chance to nap and catch up on the sleep you missed out on. Finally you arrive at Spring City, Utah – a town of slightly under 1,000 people. When you go Christmas Tree hunting you need to dress warm. Very warm. Because part of Christmas Tree hunting is standing in line with hundreds of other people to get a Christmas Tree permit. There’s a limited number of permits – 325 – so you want to be sure you have a good place in line. It’s cold so if you don’t dress warm you’re going to freeze your butt off. Despite the long, cold wait people in line are excited. And at exactly 9 a.m. the forest service truck pulls up and starts issuing Christmas tree permits. At 9:30 your hand the ranger $5 and he gives you a Christmas tree permit. Then it’s off to the mountains just outside of town. You drive up near the top and spend the next hour or so hiking through two feet of mountain snow in search of the perfect tree. (The best part of all this is when you stand quietly for a few moments and listen to the snow fall.) You find several candidates but need to be sure you find the perfect one. You narrow the search down to a couple of trees and hike back and forth between them a couple of times to make sure you pick the right one. Then when the right one’s selected it a few quick strokes with a saw and the tree is down. You drag it back to the jeep, secure it, tag it, and take it home. Sure beats hunting for dried out trees on a lot. You Can Now Purchase Room for Two - 2007-08-31 |
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