My CO exposure was much worse than thought ..

Today's reading from the lookout CO monitors read between about 175-280 ppm. We limited ourselves to 60 seconds in the lookout cab. My latest blast ..

..I'm now established in a cabin (bunk-house) at the USFS Snow Creek
Ranger Station, near Mount Bachelor. It is fantastic! Rudimentary, but
fantastic. It has a full kitchen, running water (hot/cold), electric
baseboard heat, wood-burning heat-stove with loads of split wood, and
- get this - a beautiful trout stream (Snow Creek) 25 yards from the
back door! Tomorrow I get my fishing license.

I have a fire in the wood-burner, and a steak to pan cook. Nick is
happy, happy, happy!

The cell phone barely works, but with my new wireless internet antenna
I do have my email. Tonight I'll post-process some photos and try to
get them out tomorrow.

I do have the bunk-house to myself, although a couple just pulled
up in a Subaru to the next cabin down. No problemo, because it takes a
US Forest Service key to get in the gate.

Whoa! Another Subaru at another bunkhouse! You would think "tree-huggers" lived here. I guess they do!

wmt

As soon as possible for you all. Or as soon as you are able, is the better way to say it.
Take care. :thumbsup:

It's great to hear from you, and to know that you're doing well...Nick too!

I want to see Snow Creek! Hope you got some pics of that...running water (creek water that is!) can be so beautiful...

Take care and have fun!

:hug:

How far away are you from the lookout? Any idea how long before you go back there?

Yum-m-m-m-m, trout!

:hi:

Make sure you have an exit and someone knows when you're in there. That's above 30 on a meter, best to turn around and exit. But, gov allows that much for eight hours a day. Without more testing, that 60 seconds could be done a dozen times in 24 hours and be legal, again depending on the testing, oh, and I don't have my book for checking episodic exposures, so don't take that as some take gospel.

Holding breath should work for just over a minute. Levels tend to drop quickly in out-of-doors after just a few feet although that could depend on some conditions such as temperature and pressure differentials.

If it's giving you a headache, request supplied air. If lightheaded or vomiting, exit immediately and then get those blood levels checked.

And, what's doing that. I just had a propane machine go awry and give me levels like that. That kind of situation should require a letter from the manufacturer before allowing it to return to site.

I must say, the rest of the living conditions sound eminently spectacular.

From a Subaru-drivin' tree-huggin' Oregonian.