TrailwrightBratt
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A turn out of 9 Trailwrights and 1 friend of Trailwrights made for a nice work day getting some badly needed erosion and trail Improvements completed. As usual there is plenty more to do as you all know. A never ending effort.
The hike up to about 2/3 of the way seemed to me to be the hardest part of the day. The work was the easiest part.
In all we did some 200 feet of treadway improvement moving the treadway to the west side of a drainage that is continually wet most of the time. We installed one larger earth bar at the top od the section to shunt water out of the area and another Drainage ditch to keep water from entering into the main drainage. Smoothed and widened the main drainage and removed a lot of barriers (roots and rrocks that kept the water from moving.
Installed some 6 rock steps filled in low spots with gravel completing the treadway.
The main ditching project was some 150 feet long and additional side drainages 30 feet and twenty.
As we completed this section we experienced some showers but they were no problem and caused no safety issues.
We packed up the tools and headed out. It was much easier returning to the beginning than it was going up. Maybe that was just my imagination.
A personal thank You to the crew for a job well done. That message was continously given us as hikers went by all day making it ALL worth while.
10 people X 6hours = 64 Total .
Here's a link to all the pictures taken: https://picasaweb.google.com/112780185109256920004/MtPemiTrailJune2213?authuser=0&feat=directlink
The hike up to about 2/3 of the way seemed to me to be the hardest part of the day. The work was the easiest part.
In all we did some 200 feet of treadway improvement moving the treadway to the west side of a drainage that is continually wet most of the time. We installed one larger earth bar at the top od the section to shunt water out of the area and another Drainage ditch to keep water from entering into the main drainage. Smoothed and widened the main drainage and removed a lot of barriers (roots and rrocks that kept the water from moving.
Installed some 6 rock steps filled in low spots with gravel completing the treadway.
The main ditching project was some 150 feet long and additional side drainages 30 feet and twenty.
As we completed this section we experienced some showers but they were no problem and caused no safety issues.
We packed up the tools and headed out. It was much easier returning to the beginning than it was going up. Maybe that was just my imagination.
A personal thank You to the crew for a job well done. That message was continously given us as hikers went by all day making it ALL worth while.
10 people X 6hours = 64 Total .
Here's a link to all the pictures taken: https://picasaweb.google.com/112780185109256920004/MtPemiTrailJune2213?authuser=0&feat=directlink
