Sunday, March 20, 2022

Trail destruction, reconstruction and rerouting

 The trail I've been working on the past couple years to connect the second and third loops runs close to the the Remy Chandler drain/ditch. A couple days ago I saw a guy running a very large backhoe scraping the ditch clean, thought nothing of it. The next day a 50 yard section of the trail was covered in trees and brush. In order to make sure the ditch doesn't fill in too quickly the bucket was used to push the brush and dead trees up the opposite bank where the impromptu trail runs. I will have to reroute the trail on the ditchbank for a while until an opening to the interior presents itself. This is a natural area so there are no official maintained trails.

The trail running north












The trail running south






The cleaned out ditch. You can see the orange spot on the tree marking the trail


2 comments:

  1. What a mess! Are there any town resources that can help you clear it? Eagle Scout project?

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    1. This is a natural area so no official trails, so no governments will get involved. I can easily reroute and clean up the trail myself. It just will take a while.

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