Hi all,
This is all the word from Dave Wykoff and John Bernardin (read below), who got
up there last evening to get in the first packing job in anticipation for more
snow (hopefully on its way).
There are 3 trees down, one really big one about 1/2 of the way from point J to
the meadow. The other one is at point O. What few groomers we have at the
moment can probably take care of them, but there are some other items that we
could use a little help with:
1. signs
2. aspen shoots on the upper trail near the meadow and down
3. stringing up fencing at the rock below point J
If anyone is willing and able, we could use some help. These are always
one-time early season chores that need 'tending to and are quite important for
the rest of the season.
We're EXTREMELY short on grooming staff too -- much more than the past couple of
seasons. If anyone wants to help pitch in, please let us know!!!! We'll work
it in teams at first so that you won't have to be alone out there.
Please let us know. The Groomers' email listserv address is:
groomers@...
Good skiing near home is priceless. It won't be long. Please help out if you
can!



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Dave,
We should also hang the snow fence at the big rock during the chain
saw work. The nice aspect of this is that we can haul everything in
on the snow cat and don't have to carry it. I could work on this
tomorrow late afternoon, but we really need at least 3 or 4 of us to
do this work.

Dave and I brought down 4 empty gas cans. There are at least 5 more
empties up there. Please grab a few when you go up there and bring
them down and fill em up, even if you are only going up to ski or
hike. It really helps out the grooming team to keep up the supply of gas.

We should also put up all of the signs. Can someone volunteer to do
that task that may not want to chain saw or hang fence?

By the way, the skiing is less than marginal, but there may be more
snow by the weekend.

John

At 08:32 AM 12/11/2008, David Wykoff wrote:
>Well- the first grooming of the 08-09 season has occured (sort of)
>John B and I got up there last night and got Kermit and Cosmo fired
>up hooked on to a Tidd each and started out. We headed up the lower
>road and got above point O were it opens up into meadow....Tree
>down, to big to move, turn around. back to point O and up the old
>road. I mad it to the turnaround but there is a tree down between
>point L and the turn around, so we started grooming back down, and
>we made it to the bonfire loop guess what...The Mother of all trees
>has fell across the trail....it is about 3 feet across, Turned
>around again took the cut off and kept going down, every thing else
>was clear till we got down to about point B, tree down but were able
>to move it out of the way, then poit A tree down, droped the Tidds
>at point A and went over the log to get home.
>
>Snow? not much.
>logs? 5
>aspen shoots? 100's
>
>we need to put good chains on and go saw! lets pick a time
>
>
>
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