TKO Project - Angels Rest (June 18, 2008)

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TKO Project - Angels Rest (June 18, 2008)

Post by Jane » June 19th, 2008, 12:34 am

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Angels Rest Trail Project - work party event June 18, 2008


This was our 3rd of four planned work party days to complete a new re-route trail for the popular and heavily used Angels Rest Trail in the Columbia River Gorge.

1st work party: http://portlandhikers.com/forums/thread/34694.aspx
2nd work party: http://portlandhikers.com/forums/thread/39733.aspx

There were three Forest Service employees and eight volunteers total, with Jeff Statt wearing the hard hat of our fearless crew leader today:
6-18-08 TKO Jeff and group.jpg
The morning was cool, but welcomed, for our hi-ho, hi-ho trudge up the mile and a quarter to our work site, tools in tow:
6-18-08 TKO heading up trail.jpg
a shot of the original trail and the over-use damage. This section will be decommissioned and rehabiltated in the future.
6-18-08 TKO looking down Angels Rest damaged tr.jpg
Here's what much of new trail looked like before our input today:
6-18-08 TKO lower end of trail before todays work.jpg
work in progress:
6-18-08 TKO trailwork in progress.jpg
new switchback:
6-18-08 TKO new trail switchback.jpg
Hardworking trailkeepers:
6-18-08 TKO Bill and Andy.jpg
Bruce securing log at switchback with wood stakes:
6-18-08 TKO Bruce securing log at switchback.jpg
This should keep hikers on the right path!
6-18-08 TKO log at switchback.jpg
Pete (Forest Employee) tackling the rock wall building at the upper end of the new trail:
6-18-08 TKO Pete making rock wall.jpg
6-18-08 TKO building rock wall.jpg
worthy of humming Pink Floyd's The Wall:
6-18-08 rock wall at top of switchback.jpg
Eventually a formal lookout with bench will be near this upper connection to the original trail, with these views (oh yeah, the sun did come out :)
6-18-08 TKO view north.jpg
6-18-08 TKO view from upper trail connector.jpg
The lower end of the original trail was blocked with rocks and branches.
6-18-08 closing off trail rocks.jpg
closing off original trail lower end with rocks
6-18-08 TKO closing off trail branches.jpg
adding branches to closed off trail
There were a fair number of hikers today, and they were very enthusiastic about trying the almost-finished new trail section!

Tired Trailkeeper, but rewarded with a great day of hard work and fun comraderie for a worthy cause - what better way to spend a Wednesday!
6-18-08 TKO Jane with sign by wall.jpg
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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by fettster » June 19th, 2008, 11:10 am

Hey, new trail open for business, nice! You had some good weather for workin' and a good weekday turnout too. It doesn't seem like there's much left to be done for the last work event. Good job! Is that Zombie I see with a half McCloud?

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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by Don Nelsen » June 19th, 2008, 11:28 am

Nice work folks!
-Don
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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by Jane » June 19th, 2008, 11:33 am

Yep : ) Zombie (Aaron) and Retired Jerry joined us as new volunteers on this work party - and they just picked it up like pros! Thanks to them and the other valuable volunteers who helped out! The July 5th work party here will be a fine-tuning day, probably just a few hours , leaving time for a possible celebration hike to the summit! More details later, watch for info from Barbra Baker.

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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by Splintercat » June 19th, 2008, 12:06 pm

Well done, Trailkeepers! Great pix, too, Jane - thanks for capturing the progress. I REALLY wanted to be there for the decommissioning portion, but will have to settle for throwing a few more logs on the pile of debris next time I'm up there... :D

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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by jeffstatt » June 19th, 2008, 1:02 pm

Splintercat wrote:Well done, Trailkeepers! Great pix, too, Jane - thanks for capturing the progress. I REALLY wanted to be there for the decommissioning portion, but will have to settle for throwing a few more logs on the pile of debris next time I'm up there... :D
There is plenty of work to do left on the decommisioning. All we did was work a little ways up the two ends. There is a LLLLOOONG stretch in the middle that still needs work. I'll tell you ...once you've done decommissioning for about 5 minutes you'll have your fill! that is TOUGH WORK!! :o

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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by Jane » June 19th, 2008, 3:19 pm

Just fyi, here are the recent events and work parties of the Trailkeepers of Oregon (formerly called the Trails Association of Oregon):

April 19th Angels Rest work party: http://portlandhikers.com/forums/ShowTh ... 4694#35151

May 4th Angels Rest work party: http://portlandhikers.com/forums/thread/39733.aspx

May 10th Salmon River work party: http://portlandhikers.com/forums/thread/42476.aspx

June 7th Stewardship and Training day at Zig Zag: http://portlandhikers.com/forums/thread/53807.aspx

June 18th Angels Rest work party: http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... p=256#p256

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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by zombie » June 19th, 2008, 6:21 pm

I gotta tell you guys that this trail work stuff is great fun! I am so glad this one fell mid-week as I have a harder time making it to the weekend ones, but you can bet I'll be trying to get to the next one. To those of you reading this that haven't made it out, I highly recommend it. Some good conversation, working alongside some good people, all for a good cause leaves you with the sort of satisfaction that manages to outweigh the four Ibuprofins it took me to make it through work today :)

It was great to meet those of you who were there and I look forward to meeting the rest of you on the trail!

-aaron

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Re: Trailkeepers of Oregon - Angels Rest work party 6-18-08

Post by Jane » June 21st, 2008, 9:51 am

Don't forget about our upcoming July 5th work party, to finish and commemorate this new trail project:
http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... ?f=12&t=84


And if you want to help even more, contact these other groups needing volunteers for their work projects - often all abilities are welcomed! :
http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... ?f=13&t=86

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