Tuesday, July 12, 2011

OVERVIEW: TEAM SWAMPDOG

Besides the fact that we are AWESOME, I figured I'd give all you avid blog readers an overview of Team Swampdog since last I blogged.

1. VISITORS!!!!: past SCA members (and good friends) like Rich L., Allen M., and Greg B. have come back to our wonderful program to help out on the trails and bring us news of their lives since having to leave SCA :( They all brought a ton of laughs and trail experience to bust out some stepping stones.

2. Work: So far we have completed 2 projects at the park. We put approximately 40 stepping stones in the swamp area. Plus we also did a ton of corridor work and re-vegging in that area. The second project we finished are the switchbacks! Far far away from the swamp area the trail goes pretty much straight up the mountain, so being the great trail-builders we are, we put not one but two switchbacks in from nothing. We made our own, more hiker-friendly and safe trail, covered up the old unsafe one and we did it all in three days! We worked our buts off hiking in, so we worked even harder to bench the trail, remove rocks (and boulders), lopp, put in drainage features, and a rock staircase. Now we're working on general trail maintenance at priority areas.

Thats pretty much everything we've done to date, everything tangible that is, so for now Taylormander is over and out.

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