A backlog of trailwork updates - Part 1

After neglecting updating the blog here is the first of the past projects the YAMBA trial fairies have been working on recently.

On June 16 eleven volunteers joined me at Rocky Ridge for anohter maintencance day. For this particular day we tackled the upper section of trail 6 which has started to focus water down the trail tread, and removing a few fallen trees (one of which became a log ride on trail 5). Thanks to the following: Dan Bowers, Paul Burchfield, Dan Walko, Scott Ramsay, Joel Dore, Alyssa Mease, William Weismantel, Ray Michels, Skip Durgin, Susan Moury and Jeremy Haag.

I don't have any pictures from the trail work day, but I do have some crappy cell phone pics that shows that our work worked.

Looking up the trail from the waterbar. We re-angled the bar, and here you can see water is hitting the backside.


Looking down from the waterbar you can see the wash that has formed on the right from the water hitting the bar and flowing off to the side instead of running down the trail.


Here we rerouted the trail slightly uphill, and put choke stones and debris on the old trail. This serves two purposes in getting water off the main trail tread and slowing that water down as it runs off.


Another slight reroute using limbs and stone to direct water off the trail tread


Here we blocked off a braid that had formed going into the rock ride. This braid allowed water to run down to the bottom of the rock ride creating a mud pit at the bottom. By closing this braid off and cutting nicks into the braid for water to run off, we have been able to keep the bottom of the rock ride dry.