Wokdate 25-Oct-09 Not every weekend, will we have a specific project that we are doing, but simple signing and brushing are all as important and this gave us the opportunity to do just that. One crew worked on a section on our new C7E (old S71F) continuing to open this new section, another crew worked on a section on C7D (old S71A). There is a steep hill off of Lower Dutch Hill Rd, that we felt would be safer and easier if we made an uphill and down hill, making it a divided trail. Another crew worked on S71B on the other side of the stateland, clearing briars,tall goldenrod and changing out signposts for more visible ones. And still another crew worked on C7D between Goey Pond Rd and Seminary Rd where we have an uphill grade coming into a blind corner. With the landowners permission and help actually, we were able to push out the edges of the corner to improve visibility of traffic coming up or down the hill and to ease the sharpness of the corner. Some crews made more of a day of it than others, but it is all in what was required where they were working and how much time some have to give. Remember this is, all volunteer! And we do appreciate all help!
9:00-6:00 (time change next weekend) 13 members and 3 jr members
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Jim
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( 3.1 / 152 )I seem to be falling a bit behind again, here! Sometimes it's a little hard keeping up with everything thats going on with trailwork, we have a few landowner concerns and it has been a couple of busy weeks at work before the weather turns south. (imagine what takes precedence)
Speaking of landowner concerns, one is due to the fact that trash (specifically beverage containers) were found dumped off the side of S71B. Worse yet, right at the end of the landowners driveway! This will in no way keep our trails open! IF YOU BRING IT ALONG, TAKE IT HOME WITH YOU! If you feel you need a trailside break, don't make a party of it near someone's house. A lot of riders take it for granted that the trail is just here, let me tell you, its not, there have been a number of us, (and you've been able to read about it) that have spent countless hours making this all happen. I/we do not want to lose a section or even a whole trail due to some unfortunate circumstance where somebody just wasn't thinking. Over 90% of our trails are on private property, please treat them that way!
I'm sorry, this is turning into something I didn't intend, but somehow, needed. I only like nice phone calls from the landowners!
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Jim
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( 3 / 125 )WOW, it's only October, and we had not only one Nor'easter but two that were supposed to come through. And as I intermittently watched the radar, it's truely amazing to see the storms bare down on some of the areas south of us in Pennsylvania and then, just when you would expect to wake up to a coating of snow (not that we really need it yet), it's amazing to see it all blow apart just before it comes to us. We really ended up with two beautiful days. One of which we made some pretty good use of. We had enough help show up, that we were able to send crews off in 3 different directions. One crew set out with the mower and a saw. (You don't even see deer run through stuff like this) Briars so tall you had to stand up in the Rhino just to see where you were headed (and then to have to clear downfall in this stuff...and I forgot my gloves!). Another crew widened a section of trail that we haven't used before, by trimming back overhanging limbs, this will help keep us off the roadside. And yet another crew was able to mow a section on a powerline right-of-way and with permission from some landowners, install some culverts to get us through some perennial wet spots that have plagued us for several years.
Thanks to all that showed up and offered the use of their equipment. We also got the opportunity to check out access to our new local state park (Wilber & Betty Davis State Park) which has camping cabins and parking available for snowmobilers. With enough interest, this may stay open for the season.
9 members and 3 jr members 9:00-2:00 and the crew doing the culverts stayed out to close to 6:00
We also took the opportunity this morning to show our appreciation to our landowners by having breakfast on our club at our American Legion.
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Jim
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( 3 / 148 )Another beautiful day for trailworking! Last winter we had a day that we spent trying to open a trail that had a lot of downfall...while it was snowing...in almost 15" of snow. We had to use sleds to get around, it took almost 7 hours to go 2 miles. So we thought... why not try to clear this a little better on a day when things will come a little easier. So, we gave it a shot. Now imagine this... it took almost 7 hours to go 2 miles! And I feel we still could have done better, at least on portions of it, but there is only so much time in a day, so we did what we could to make it rideable and make a definite improvement over what we started with. We did a lot of brushing, got some signs out and got a number of overhanging trees cut back. When we got to the bigger bridge on this section, we found where the water had been high enough to run around both ends of the bridge and took our signs down. In addition, there was a bunch of debris lodged in under the bridge we needed to clear as it was putting a lot of pressure on the bridge supports. We got this cleared, including a stump, and let the water and leaves run freely through.
5 members 9:00-5:00
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Jim
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( 3 / 96 )The day started with the promise of being a great day, then the radar started filling in with precipitation. We got a little rain to start, then things turned back in our favor and actually worked its way around to being sunny. We had some trail widening and some wet spots to drain in the state land so with permission from the DEC we were able go in with shovels and drain the wet spots and had some downfall that we were able to go in and clear. Not only will this help to get the groomers through easier but will help sledders when meeting oncoming traffic. We mowed some other spots that routinely see a lot of overgrowth with briars and goldenrod, as well as some taghalters that have started overgrowing the trail edges.
We may never have the seasonal road width trails that the Adirondaks has to offer, but we are trying to make the effort at least to have trails wide enough to allow safer travel when meeting oncoming traffic and to be able to ride some higher mileage days.
8:30-4:30 4 members (For those that get to enjoy our trails and what we need to accomplish to make them that way, we're always willing to accept additional help!)
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Jim
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