Bloedel s new reality includes a significant and growing role for helicopter logging. Canadian Air Crane s grapple logging system may be part of the answer. It is beautiful scenery but treacherous terrain. The cool morning has shown one foible of heli-logging.
Weather is everything.
The helicopter is 25 feet high and 88 feet long and no places exist below where the craft can sit down if required. Yesterday, the craft worked from early to last light. Today, it is almost noon before the sun and wind burn and blow the wisps of white away and the Port Alberni Inlet appears on the horizon. Soon the blues of the ocean frame blend with the greens and browns. A crew member radios.