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Ridgeline Trail Clearing

  • Start date: 12/24/2016

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 12/24/2016

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

**Attention**
This will be trail clearing and not a hike.
We will meet at: Willamette & 52nd Street parking lot (the small lot)
Note time change: 9:00AM
Bring hand saws, loppers, rakes, axes.
We will work for 2 - 3 hours only.

  • Event Leader: David Lodeesen

  • Event Leader Phone: 214-709-0352

  • Event Leader Email: dmxzx3@sbcglobal.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: You must wear a hard hat or bicycle helmet - some will be available. Wear good boots/shoes and work gloves. Dress for the weather, possibly cold and wet.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 9

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 2000

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Thirteen Obsidian members showed up for trail clearing on the Ridgeline Trails this morning. The ice storm that hit last week knocked down thousands of trees with many covering the trails we hike on so often. We started at the small lot on Willamette & 52nd Avenue and worked the trail going East and then up the tie trail. We cleared the trail of smaller tree falls - generally anything under 10" in diameter. We cut, cleared, and raked the trail for a mile, then cleared what we could for about 1/2 mile up the tie trail. Many large trees down, up to about 4-1/2' in diameter. A very sad sight.