Lots of work to do. Miles, if you read this, see below. I need to see if
you can help us with some of the trees that have partially fallen -- some
are live -- and with one very large tree that is a little bit beyond what
our available club crew can handle...

Some club weekend work party updates:
Saturday - club members Joe Baehr, Paul Graham, Dina Pesenson & Clay
Moseley
Joe and Clay did work on the equipment shed. Got the remainder of the
felt on the gables, put up some galvanized siding until we ran out of
screws, planed the doors so that they shut, hung the personnel door.
There is still some work to be done on the personnel door -- it's hung
from the outside in on gate hinges, therefore we need to build an
internal threshold with 2x6s. I'll work on that. I've got some of the
galvanized siding up, but this goes a little quicker with more than one
person...
The big bay doors will need to have some tension wires installed to keep
it from warping. We'll need to install some eyelet-screws with wire and
turnbuckles. It sags and changes shape if left open and is already
sticking a bit when we close it. The personnel door and the bay doors
need handles. We don't have the hardware for those yet.
Dina and Paul went up to the trails to find MANY quite large trees down
across the trails, starting almost right at the trailhead. They spent
many hours clearing trees in excess of 24" diameter, and still had a lot
to do. Point-G alone was a rat's nest and took them a long time. They
told me of the horror stories, and I couldn't believe it because I had
just run the entire trail system a few weeks ago (Labor Day) and it was
virtually clear.


Sunday - club members Paul Graham, Dina Pesenson, Clay Moseley
Being in disbelief of the tree carnage, I decided to take a running tour
of the trails again. What I saw was amazing. I could see why Dina and
Paul took so long to return on Saturday. The two of them cut and moved
some HUGE tree sections. I was very impressed.
I ran out to Guaje Canyon with our Ukrainian Ironwoman, Toma Kozulina,
and we saw what was left to do on the trail system -- a lot! TJ's had a
mess of large trees fall across the trail between Pts E and F, and the
cutoff down to the lower road at O. Further up, Dave's has a rather
massive Douglas Fir down in the worst possible manner; it's diagonally in
line with the trail. It was a dead one (recently), but it's huge. Point I
(the upper intersection where Dave's meets up with the main trail) also
had a large Douglas Fir come down across both the main trail and Dave's
-- this one was live.
Toma and I found only a couple more trees down across the upper trail
sections, and a couple down across the lower cutoff from the meadow to
the lower road above Point O.
Later that afternoon, we decided to go up and tackle some more of the
mess, as it's going to be a while before we're done with it all. Paul
joined me and and an ailing Dina to go up and start cutting and attempt
to clear some of the big tree sections.
We worked mostly at clearing the mess at Point I (Dave's and main trail).
We got it cleared, but there's still one big section to move...we just
didn't have enough horsepower. Then we went down to the rat's next on
TJ's and cut for the next couple of hours. Again, not enough horsepower
(and pry bars) to roll the massive heavy sections off of the trail. There
were some other down trees on TJ's that we also cut but weren't able to
move completely off the trail.
While one person operated the chainsaw, the other two worked on cutting
the mess of aspen shoots growing like weeds on the trail. This task is
always something that could use some attention, all over the trail
system.
So, we need to get some folks to help move the big sections off the trail
on TJ's and the main trail with pry bars and just extra hands. I need to
see if the Forest Service (Miles?) can help out with the big tree on
Dave's Dogleg, and with a bad dangerous live tree on the main trail
between the intersections of Dave's and TJ's. It is still standing, but
leaning very precariously and about to fall down in a bad way.