Getting Closer

To some of you this may be nothing spectacular, but to me I just won the geek lottery. Coming close to dispatching my reptilian brain thought process and literally smashing my tablet and phone was a very close reality. However stuborness and patience prevailed. I still have a long ways to go but at least now I'm getting somewhere. It's been eating me up quite a bit of not being able to accomplish this earlier. I don't want my team mates thinking I don't follow through on my words and I'm just plain full of s#$t.
 What you see here is the beginning of the storm that came in last week. It went from daylight to black in a very short period of time followed by lightning and rain. It was pretty gross actually, the smell of freshly put out campfire was strong and the puddles the next day were black.

Here's what it's like on a smokey day.....

 And when it's not. It's actually been worse, to the point where you can't see the trees down by the water.

This area here is where I go to train. It's pretty isolated and you don't really see too many people down here. If you do, they are running by, walking, biking, etc. They don't really pay too much attention to me. This is where I think I can start swinging my axe around without too many problems. If it does I'll find somewhere else.

So this is the start of my recorded journey up here. Hopefully a few posts down the line I'll have some footage to show you guy's with a request for advice.