About us
About Backcountry Excavation
Backcountry Excavation LLC is run by Logan and Kenny, out of Chelan. The people who look at your job are the people who do it.
Who we are
A Chelan company doing ground work
Backcountry Excavation is a Chelan company, owned and run by Logan and Kenny. It’s registered with Washington State as a general construction contractor, bonded and insured, and everything on that record is public and checkable.
The work is ground work: clearing, cutting, shaping and draining the dirt so that whatever goes on top of it has something solid underneath.
The name comes from how the owners spend their time off. When they aren’t running the machine, Logan and Kenny are usually out hunting or fishing the same country they work in. They know what this ground looks like in every season, and they like leaving it better than they found it.
What you get is a small, owner run outfit. You talk to the people running the machine, you get told plainly what a job involves, and you hear about problems while there’s still time to do something about them.
How we work
From first call to final walkthrough
Step 1
You call or send us the details
We ask enough questions to work out whether it’s something we should be taking on.
Step 2
We come and look at the site
Access, ground conditions and where water goes tell us more in ten minutes than a description does in an hour.
Step 3
You get it in writing
A clear scope and a price, with anything uncertain named as uncertain rather than buried.
Step 4
We agree on timing
You know what needs to be sorted on your side before we roll in: access, locates, approvals, materials.
Step 5
The work gets done
You hear from us if anything changes. Nothing new appears on the invoice that you haven’t already been told about.
Step 6
We walk the site with you
We tidy up what needs tidying, and leave the ground the way we said we would.
On site
How we keep a site safe
- Utility locates are called before ground is opened. It’s free, and Washington law requires it.
- Open excavations and trenches get treated as the hazard they are, for everyone on the site and everyone living on it.
- The site gets left secure at the end of the day, which matters more when there are kids, stock or neighbors nearby.
- If conditions change, whether that’s weather, ground or something we didn’t expect, we stop and talk about it rather than push on.
Verify us before you hire us
On public record
- Legal name
- Backcountry Excavation LLC
- Registration
- Construction contractor, general. WA L&I BACKCEL741L2
- Status
- Licensed, bonded and insured
- Based in
- Chelan, WA 98816
- Owners
- Logan Oules and Kenny Reeves
Check our registration with Washington L&I. Washington law lets you verify any contractor’s registration, bond and insurance for free. We’d rather you did.
Call or text the owners
Get a written estimate
Tell us what you’re building and where. A photo of the way in helps more than anything else.
(509) 421-1539