Hi everyone, I met rob and a couple other members while hiking up fish creek mountain and they told me about this site. Really happy to learn theres other people doing trail maintenance and rebuilding.
I have been working on forest road 4620 and it is cleared to the junction with 210 and I'll be working on clearing a trail down 290 to the junction with 5420 as my next project.
I'm always out on saturdays or sundays, if anyone has something to work on if they want an extra set of hands send me a message.
Hi Mike
Welcome to the site!
We did some work on Baty Butte a few weeks ago and will be doing some more work later this year. Yesterday, a few of us hiked Baty Butte all the way down to Joyce Lake. I hadn't done that since 2008. There are a few rough sections that need some help which we will hopefully be getting to later this year. More hands are always good - there is always more work than time (or energy) available.
We need to get back to Fish Creek Mtn too and finish cutting out the trail to high lake - that will be on the agenda in the fall after the rains start again.
After weeks of work I finally made it to big meadow quarry and I believe that will mark the end of forward progress on 5420 for the season. I was mostly following game trails and whats left of the atv trail so its less a defined trail and more of a path at this point. The alders and vine maples were giving their best effort to completely take over parts of the road. I'll be heading back up there a couple more times with my crosscut saw to cut through the bigger stuff I skipped over in the heat.
Some unfortunate news, there's a logging operation going on 5410 and they dropped some big trees across 5420 before rimrock creek and I don't think they're planning on removing them, so to get down to 54 you're either scrambling over the logs or some good steward will have to go through there with a saw and at least a 36" bar.