We'll have to get a lot of trail work done in a short time in order to make the best use of the extra crews available to us. As well as WTA, there will be trail crews from AmeriCorps and Ecology Youth Corps coming in this year to help work on the trails after the 2018 fires. We need to clear trails to the wilderness boundary, so that the crews are not held up getting into the wilderness on trails near the horse camp. (If these trails are not cleared, visitors to TRHC will have nowhere to ride.)
TRT needs TLC
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May 5: TRT East of Scaffold looking W
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Trail work up Twisp River started hard on the heels of the Spring Ride. On May 1st, Bill and Jan Ford started to clear Twisp River Trail (TRT) from its east end at the Buttermilk Snow Park. It took them four outings (44 V-Hours) to cut out the trail to the War Creek Bridge and a further 4 hours for Bill on his own to reach the 4-mile mark at Twisp River road. They returned each evening looking as if they had been in a coal mine and their clothes were black!
The trail was badly burnt nearly all the way with only a few places where it had a mosaic burn. Tread was badly affected by falling rocks and by tunnels and holes where roots had burnt out underground.
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May 5: TRT East of Scaffold looking E
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| May 11: Big tree along trail E of Eagle Creek; 6th cut with 18 inch chain saw. Glad we were not in wilderness! |
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| May 11: Eagle Creek Bridge from the W. |
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| Log on trail between Eagle Oval TH road and War Creek bridge |
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| May 11: Charred logs across TRT just W of Eagle Creek |
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