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May
22nd & 29th, 2008 -
We haven't done much hiking lately
due to our hectic work schedules, but Shannon and I have made it
out a couple of times to do some trail maintenance on our
section.
On the first day out, we began by
cutting weeds with the string trimmer under the powerline cuts
of the blue-blazed trail. We then hid the string-trimmer
in the woods and continued lopping weeds by hand as we entered
into the Wilderness area. We worked for a couple of miles
on up the A.T., and soon came upon a very large, two-pronged
blowdown completely blocking the trail. I only had my
small crosscut on me, but Shannon and I decided to try to cut it
anyway. We took turns sawing and were able to make a cut
through one of the prongs. We then took a break by
continuing on up the mountain to lop more weeds, where we
eventually turned around and headed back down to work on the
blowdown some more.
Again, we took turns sawing and
made another cut through the tree. Finally we got a
large section to break loose, but then the whole tree slid down
the slope about 5 feet, negating all of our work. It was
getting dark so we cleaned up the trail as best possible, and
decided to call it a day.
We logged 5 maintenance hours
each, while hiking approximately 5.2 miles. |
