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The local, and not so local, OHV, Horse, and MTN Bike clubs work hard to keep their trails open. It's hard, though. I spent a lot of my own money and time on this project. Here is a copy/paste of what was involved:
It went pretty good. At one location, we were able to cut and drag a big log in to block the top side of one problem area.
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We drug the log down the road a bit, and then pulled it into place using a strap on one end and a winch on the other.
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In the end, it did a good job of blocking this area. We also collected a tire and a bag of trash for this area.
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We fully understand that someone can just cut this out of the way. But hopefully, with Spring time coming and vegetation starting to take root, it will stay there long enough to do something good.
In another area, we pulled in more down trees and Hemlock top that have fallen out to cover the trail. There was also a down tree hung up in some other trees as you can see in the picture. I tried to pull this tree down, but it was not happening. So, we cut a 8' log off the bottom. This gave us another log to plant in the way of the trail, but it also moved this obstacle over about 15' so they could not go around what we just did.
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We also blocked one other trail before you get to the Deer Garden. Sorry, no pics.
Then we took a break for lunch
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After lunch, we cleaned the camp-site area behind the "Deer Garden" then headed back North to clean-up another camp area. Afterwords, we called it quits and set up camp.
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We started off dinner with some bacon wrapped scallops.
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And finished up with some rainbow trout and potato's.
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It got down to about 23-degrees that night, but it was not too bad. With the fire rolling, if felt pretty good.
I filled out the VA4WDA land use work sheet for ROAV for the Switzer Dam area. I also sent Mark Healey an e-mail to explain what we did. He would like me to extend his thanks for everyones efforts Saturday.
Once Mark and his crew are done with the Deer Garden, I post a thread and see about getting some guys together to plant these trees.