Hello Everyone,

 

On Wednesday, December 9, ten FOSM volunteers, working in two teams of five people, removed a total of five trees from three trails. We were walking in a few inches of mostly packed snow.

 

1. Switchback Trail at the junction with Survey Trail -- A very dangerous broken upper half of a 12-inch aspen was upside-down over the trail. We used our standard technique to remove this type of hazard. See the explanation in  the attached Word document of photos.

 

2. Switchback Trail near the Service Road – Remove a 16-inch hang-up by walking it across the trail. It was leaning on a 12-inich aspen that was broken in two places that were not over the trail.

 

3. Survey Trail outside the wilderness – Removed a hang-up by walking it off the trail near the power line.

 

4. Rocky Point Trail at about the mid-point – Removed an 8-inch hang-up and a 10-inch hang-up that were across the trail at the same place. Low stumped a 5-floot high dead fir adjacent to the trail that was mostly decayed. Used a chain saw to carve the low stump to match the contours of the ground there.

 

The volunteers were Cliff Giles, Jim Levesque, Jerry Pekarek, Sam Beard, Lou Romero, Byron Garner, Dennis Crowther, Steve Roholt, Jerry Carroll, and Sim Cook.

 

Sam Beard, Projects Chair

Friends of the Sandia Mountains