With all this warm, low humidity, windy weather, the trails have probably dried up pretty well. Plans are coming together to do some trail work over the weekend.

If we get 3-4 leaf blowers we could divy up the trails and have em done in 3 hours. Probably need 8 guys. 1 blowing, 1 with chainsaw/pruners/strong back. Go out in pods of 2.

What day/time would be best for everyone?
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

Sunday early AM is best for me.

Tyler and I walked most of the lower trails this evening. We will be fortunate if the rest of the system recieved similar damage from the storm. We only saw two trees requiring a chainsaw. The singletrack is starting to firm up, but not ready for tires for another week anyway. The snowmobile trails are another year eroded and still very soft with ice patches. And the little wacky bridge at the entrance to No Name needs a little tlc.

Overall I was pleased with what I saw out there, lets hope up top came through well also. Compared to Hanover we appear to be lucky, there are some trails up that way that my never be used again. The Hypertherm trails will be inspected the first day it is not nice enough to ride.
 
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I'm fine with Sunday am, not sure about Early thou, depends what that means.

In fact it is probably not necissary for us all to be out at the same time so long as we have divided the trails up and our pod partner is there with us.

just a thought.

Ryan

Put me down for the Sunday early AM crew, just say when.
No leaf blower, but I've got a good travelin' saw that likes to cut on an angle. Let me know your plans. Nathan
 
Alone in the woods, who stands to be King?

Wow, that last Nor'Easter put a whole lot of hurt on Barton Woods! Looks as if we will be doing some major cutting to get that trail open. Other than that it looks like minor branch work and a few stray trees across trails, most could be handled by hand saw.
 
Alone in the woods, who stands to be King?

Paging Glenn Halleck to Barton Woods...........
 
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Gurney has a chainsaw. It even runs - it was used to clear my driveway during the last noreaster. Sunday AM sounds OK, what time?. I'll start with Barton Woods unless someone directs otherwise or Mr. Halleck answers his page and beats me to it.

MG

I've got a husky rancher as well and a pick-bar for the big logs.
We should meet at the gate below the water towers say around 9AM, pending rain.
 
Alone in the woods, who stands to be King?

I will be there with a blower and small chainsaw, good for small trees and limbing. I will probably get the lower sections done in advance since all they need is a blow and minimal cutting.
 
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I may have to hunt you down......

5 sections of work........
1. Left (West) side of summer street, lower section until road to Pinnacle
2. Right (east) side of summer street, lower section up to start of Pine link including Pinnacle Bypass, Barton, snake, ect.
3. left side of summer street including ryans new stuff, skunk hollow, fern alley, ect until top of Coit
4. Right side of summer from Pine Link North down to end of Bear Trap.
5. OUtback and climb to top of Coit.

IF you can't meet up at 9:00 pick a section so we know what is getting done.

[quote:ccf7c1537a="Nathan"]I've got a husky rancher as well and a pick-bar for the big logs.
We should meet at the gate below the water towers say around 9AM, pending rain.[/quote:ccf7c1537a]

I'll see you at the gate at 9am
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

I really hope it ain't all as bad as my side of the mountain. Man Mark and I snowshoed this stuff a bunch of times and there wasn't that much stuff. Enter the Nor'Easter to lay waste to the trails and now....

I sure am glad we have as many bodies to clean trail as we do. Any one with a long bar chainsaw? We need all the chainsaws and bodies we can get for tomorrow.

I just got back from 4.5 hours of trail work and I never even made it to the water towers (or Barton Woods) from my house, I covered about 8/10 of a mile round trip today. There are 3 Pine monsters uprooted across Steep Baptist within 15 feet of each other and another one laying in line with a new trail I cut late last year not far from Old Barton, it starts pretty much at the top of Steep Baptist and connects into Barton Woods between Old Barton and the dip where Pinnacle Bypass comes into Barton. I can't speak much for the rest of the trails, that's as far as I got today. I was however impressed with how the ground is firming up nicely on my side thou.

Mark if you are coming with a Chainsaw maybe we can team up together. Perhaps we could take your truck up Dodd's logging road and hit Outback, Skunk Hollow, Bear Trap Coit Summit North & Brake Burner, assuming we can do all that in one day.

Any time 9am or later is fine with me.

Ryan

I'll be at the gate at 9:00 with an 18" bar chainsaw. Whatever it won't cut doesn't need cutting.
MG

sounds like a plan, see you then.

I will be heading out a little early and focusing on the Summer street side trails up to the Pinnacle. I will then work down Barton Woods to meet up with whoever is working those, sounds like it will be Nathan and Ken. When everything up to the Pinnacle is opened up we can split up and do the Pinelink, Hail, Fern Alley loop.

PJ, the leaf blower will be fueled up in the van.

See you out there.
 
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If we could get a recap of all the trails cleaned yesterday, we can identify any trails left needing attention.

The trails coming into the Town forest from my side of the mountain are cleaned including what I call Big Barton (Double track snowmobile trail, starts at water towers, splits into 2 other trails Steep Baptist & Lower Baptist which converge back into one trail and ends at Luxury Drive). A new trail which for now I'll call East Boundary is cleaned (starts at Big Barton/steep Baptist and terminates at Barton Woods), another as of yet unused trail I call Midway Traverse which starts at Couch, crosses Barton Woods and terminates at Summer St near the top of Big Rock is also cleaned. Outback is cleaned.

Ken and I walked Skunk Hollow, I think a general assessment needs to be made as to whether we continue to maintain Skunk Hollow or not. It is salvageable, however Dodd is actively cutting this whole side of Coit, it's very impressive how much Dodd has opened up this whole area. It appears Dodd is working his way up the Skunk Hollow side of Coit and numerous skidder tracks as well as a lot of debris has totally changed the landscape of this area, it might make more sense for now to just utilize the main dirt road from the end of Outback and then back up his new dirt road that terminates not far from Skunk Hollow and make a short connector from the road to Skunk Hollow. The Southeast side of Skunk Hollow from approximately the new dirt road to Summer street is intact and very usable, the rest of Skunk Hollow will need a lot of work initially and ongoing to maintain a trail through there.

Recap: Snowmobile trail from Water tower to Luxury Drive is cleaned including Big Barton, Steep Baptist, and Lower Baptist. East Boundary is cleaned. Outback is cleaned but Skunk Hollow needs an assessment.

Please chime in with the trails you cleaned or know are cleaned so we can get a comprehensive list going. It was really great to have a bunch of us out there working together to get the trails cleaned up, I think we made a major impact on what needed to be done.

Ryan

Everything south of Hail is open, much has been blown clean.
 
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Great. Sounds like Bear Trap, a small part of 3 Rock on the Fern Alley side, Boulder Cross, Goat (formally Ryan's Revenge) and some misc stuff on the top of Coit are the only things left to be cleared as well as whatever we decide to do with Skunk Hollow.

Ryan

For some reason I never really liked Skunk Hollow anyway.

I think the Skunk Hollow Area will offer a whole new experience as yet unseen on the current trail system once Dodd is done logging this area, but until then it's a losing battle I think.

Ryan