Traildogs and friends - February 5, 2008
We are at the base of Hickory Nut Mountain and have started digging the first leg of a long sweeping switchback that will take the trail approximately halfway up the southern slope. The switchbacks are a technique used to reduce severe slopes on sharp upgrades.
The two machines are making progress but it is getting very rocky making progress very slow.
Today the weather scared off the machine operators but a few traildogs showed up and completed the finish work on a beautiful section that passes through a gap in the two mountains. I don't if it was Mother Nature gripping about us messing with her forest layout or the mountain grumbling about a bunch of interlopers venturing into a part of the mountain that has been inaccessible for many years but we could hear rumblings all afternoon. We avoided any rain but were blessed with a nice wind blowing off the lake down through the gap.
I have attached pictures of the two machines we are utilizing.
Tomorrow Wednesday Feb. 6 we will be starting at 8:30 and meeting again at the end of the USFS road that exits the trailhead parking on Mt. Harbor Road.
We can ferry any volunteers with our four wheelers but the walk in is just beautiful. Pack a lunch and join us as we try to hack out the switchbacks.
Jerry
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