VINTAGE PNW TIMBER
In 1910 Erik Holger Pearson arrived in Portland, Oregon to be re-united with his Swedish father, Eric Andreas. Eric Pearson the elder emigrated in 1903 and began working as a logging foreman who was responsible for transporting ancient timbers by way of railroad to local sawmills.
Erik Pearson, pictured as a 10 year old boy (far right) just after his arrival to the new land. He lived and went to school in remote logging camps just outside of Oak Point, WA. The Skookum Terrorists (as they were dubbed on a note pinned to the photo) experienced a rare and wild life in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. These developmental years would later shape Eric Holger Pearson's love and need for adventure as a photographer, conservationist and climber.
