4W613 work day
Saturday July 12th, 2008
This year the All Wheelers Off Road Club adopted trail 4W613 "Divide Ridge East". With the late snow pack and last weekend being a holiday, we just now got a chance to work on the trail.
Saturday we met up about 9 AM on Jackass Road at the Grey Rock Trail. My wife "99" volunteered to run an Aid station for the 50K trail runners to promote Off Roaders. Once we got "99" set up we headed up Jackass Road and then down 4W613.
Our first stop was to clear a trail off the trail at the first meadow. Demontang worked on cutting the tree off the trail.
After Demontang made the cuts we moved around to get a cable on the tree.
Using a tree saver and snatch block, I with Fatboy's help started winching the cut part of the tree into the newly made by-pass.
Here is looking at the trail from the by-pass.
On down the trail we cut some down trees that had been cut before just wide enough for quads. People in rigs had widened the trail into the mud to make the turn.
Here is a tree across the trail that has been down since last year.
I cut it up. Fatboy and Demontang moved it off to the side.
A little ways down Demontang moved a log off the trail.
The trail stated getting real tight for Demontang’s Ranger.
Here is Demontang crossing the cattle guard.
This corner is always fun to watch rigs make the turn.
Demontang close to carnage.
Fatboy winched Demontang's rig off the tree.
This tree fell a few years ago blocking the trail. People made a by pass that cut though the stream and into the meadow. We came to fix this problem.
Fatboy got ready to pull the long over to block the by=pass.
Demontang started cutting the down tree.
Here you can see another by-pass off the Grey Rock Trail.
Fatboy work on moving the long in place to block the by-pass in the stream.
Damontang started working on the section across 4W613.
Here is the log blocking the by-pass.
We added logs to the other side to show the Grey Rock Trail Head and some to block the by-pass made by quads.
Damontang made the cuts in the long and now it was time to move it.
We hooked up the Tweety Jeep to the log.
I used the Tweety Jeep to pull the log across the other side of the by-pass.
Next we worked on blocking the mud hole from being wider. People were making the mud hole wider by driving around it into the meadow.
After Fatboy drug the logs into the by-pass, Demontang cut off any branches that could cause damage to an ORV.
This was all the time we had to work on this day so we headed out. We plan to have more work days this summer.
