Thor & Helen Nyberg
Thor had many early day memories.  What he remembered most is how quiet the forest was, even when the lumberjacks worked. There were no machines, no chainsaw whining, no bulldozers groaning, no logging rucks winding their way up and down the crooked switchback roads.  Instead, there was the gentle voices of the "skinners" calmly coaxing their log burdened horses to tun right or left with a "haw" or "gee", the thump of distant axes, the swish of the nearby crosscut saw and the warning of "timberrrr".
When Thor first came to Headquarters,in 1921, they parked the model-T in Pierce; because the roads were muddier than the dickens and hiked into town.  the next day he was hired as scaler.
He said there were 5 logging camps within walking distance of each other and they were called "rag camps" because the men lived in tents.  There were six double bunks to a tent.  Showers were available, but weren't used very often.  But, you could lay fifty bucks along side your bunk and no one would bother it.
Helen taught the primary grades at the the school for  7 years.--"Colleen Ross"