[NMCCSC] Report of East Fork East Loop trail work, Fri., Nov. 6

[Marlene Brown]

You guys are amazing. Thank you so much for getting our ski trails ready
for us. Can't wait to get out there. Let it snow!

*-Marlene-*


On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 11:38 AM Sam Beard via NMCCSCeGroup <
nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Hello Skiers,
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> On Friday, Nov. 6, five Ski Club members completed fall maintenance of the
> East Loop of the East Fork Trail in the Jemez Mountains. We parked in the
> Los Griegos parking lot and hiked across NM-4 to the Burn Trail that leads
> to a connector that goes to the west end of the loop.
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> We removed 15 down trees, and the maximum diameter was 20 inches. We were
> using a Stihl MS-251 saw with an 18-inch bar, and a Husqvarna 440 saw with
> a 16-inch bar. The logs were bucked into several pieces and moved off the
> trail. Several blue plastic diamonds were nailed to trees to mark segments
> of the trail better. Also, branches on a few trees were pruned with a pole
> saw so that skiers will not hit them as they pass.
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> The hard working volunteers were Mike Meier, Jerry Carroll, Bill Savage,
> Neil McCasland, and Sam Beard.
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> Photos are presented in the attached Word document.
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> P.S. The barbed wire fence around the old pumice mine on the south side of
> the loop has been removed. Senior members of the Club will remember that
> the original loop trail followed a road that was later removed by the
> mining process. We will check the terrain just north of the mined area to
> see if it is feasible to move the trail back to that area. The route along
> the north side of the mine maybe better than the present route that we are
> using.
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> Sam Beard, Trails Chair
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> New Mexico Cross Country Ski Club
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