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Ridgeline Trail Clearing

  • Start date: 12/28/2016

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 12/28/2016

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

**Attention** WE MEET AT FOX HOLLOW AND WILL WORK TOWARDS DILLARD. EXPECT A LOT OF RAKING.
Details of where to meet-up will be decided shortly because the situation on the Ridgeline trails is changing daily. Check back often for updates.
Don't think you can't help. Yes, sawyers are important, but so are trimmers, scouters for what's ahead, those who can rake and clean up the trail afterwards, and those who can run errands and maybe even bring food back. We don't want anybody to hurt himself or herself doing too much, but your presence will be very much appreciated.

  • Event Leader: Mike Smith

  • Event Leader Phone: 520-488-9569

  • Event Leader Email: mssq@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Hard hat or bicycle helmet, work gloves, good footwear, proper clothing for cold, wet, muddy conditions. If you have a rake for leaves or a garden one, bring it. Loppers and a good hand saw are helpful, but bring yourself. You matter.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 800

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We split up into two groups to clean the upper and lower paths east of Fox Hollow. There was the thickest ice I have seen in places, a lot of frozen branches, a few huge root balls, and 3 hours' work to get not quite to the trail junction with the upper trail. There are some dangerous branches overhead, and still people disobey the "Closed" signs in order to walk, run, or take young children out. Nobody in the group I was in was under 55; the young apparently are too fit to bother with such things as trail clearing. Being the best in some class matters. Clearing a trail to make it safer? Not so much. Still, we Obsidians should be proud of the work we are doing.