Trail clearing in my favorite trail network has begun... I adopted trail 30 and went up there with buddy Jake to clear it. Started up the trail and clear a few little logs and trail trash and got to the turn off for the look out. Decided to clear that too and Jake and I took off. Jakes trail clearing rig... Jakes setup... See that yellow handle that looks like it could snag something... And see the perfect indent where it implanted in the tree? See where Jake lost control... then again... See Jake not so happy anymore with his new back pain and $180 chain saw in 2 large chunks, thats the chainsaw handle in his hand... So... Chainsaw was not usable and we decided to do what we could with hand saws and trimmers. Which in the end might have been a good plan. Seems a nice feller we ran into later in the day had just come up and cut out the 2-3 trees across the trail. So we set out to clear the many faceslappers and down trees we could move by hand... A few small snow drifts remain... Trimming it back... now 30 (Spencer Butte) and the view point are clear and face whipper free. Fun trail again. then we went and rode 80 and 80a to some bigger tress down a ways after the new bridge. We might cut them out tomorrow. Thanks again for the new bridge Steve and crew... Love it... Then we went up 3 to the snow which is right after the long open area when you first dive into the tress. going to be a while before we get to Boundary. Happy to be working / ridding Gifford again. BTW, we met many hikers and they were all super nice!!! Jake has some nice video, here is some OK vid early int he day. (WR144) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHgJs8ijmk
Thanks for the work And this priceless picture I'm laughing with you Jake. Sorry about the saw and back pains though.
