Quarry Section Trail Work Reports – 2018
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Date | Name | Trail | Hours | Work | Volunteers | Remaining Work | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-20 | Dave Humphreys | Crags Foot Path | 1.50 | Cut down widow maker tree hazards, cleared trail of debris. | |||
| 2018-01-20 | Dave Humphreys | Fox Hill Path | 0.50 | Cleared trail of debris. | |||
| 2018-01-20 | Dave Humphreys | Indian Camp Path | 1.00 | Cut down widow maker tree hazards, cleared trail of debris. | There are two large blow-down trees that are a CHAIN SAW job. One vicinity 4135, one vicinity 4120. | ||
| 2018-03-11 | Chris Mullin | Sawcut Notch Path | 1.5 | Clearing downed branches and trees from storms | Molly Mullin | There are four major downed trees across this trail between 4133 and 4214. They will require chain saw crew to clear. All are causing hikers to leave the trail to get around the downed trees. | |
| 2018-03-11 | Chris Mullin | Crags Foot Path | 1 | Cleared downed branches and trees from storms | Molly Mullin | The trail marker for 4124 has fallen and is temporarily tied to a small tree. Needs to be nailed back on larger tree. There is a large blow down requiring a chain saw crew near 4151. It is completely blocking the trail. | |
| 2018-04-05 | Bob Vogel | Pasture Run | 1.5 | Cleared downed trees, branches, etc. | Pete Tierney, Paul Brooks, ... | ||
| 2018-04-05 | Bob Vogel | Adams Path (FBH) | 2.25 | Cleared downed trees, branches, etc. | Pete Tierney, Paul Brooks, ... | ||
| 2018-04-05 | Bob Vogel | Pine Tree Brook Path | 2.25 | Cleared downed trees, branches, etc. | Pete Tierney, Paul Brooks, ... | ||
| 2018-04-05 | Bob Vogel | Ridge Path | 2.25 | Cleared downed trees, branches, etc. | Pete Tierney, Paul Brooks, ... | ||
| 2018-04-05 | Bob Vogel | Sassaman Path | 1.5 | Cleared downed trees, branches, etc. | Pete Tierney, Paul Brooks, ... | ||
| 2018-04-09 | Bob Vogel | Headquarters Path | 0.25 | Very little! | Pete Tierney | This section (really the pipeline parallel to Headquarters path.) is a continuous row of downed trees, there are dozen of trees across the pipeline. It's going to be a LOT of work to clear this. Does the gas company clear that? | |
| 2018-04-09 | Bob Vogel | Cedar Rock Path | 0.25 | Cleared downed limbs. | Pete Tierney | ||
| 2018-06-02 | Caleb Blankenship | Minichiello Path (FBH) | 14 | Took down three large trees and cut some up. | Jack Platt, Michael Bocamazo, Bob Kittredge. | One of the trees got hung up in another tree. We will need to return to clear that one with the griphoist. | We heard both wood frogs and bull frogs. |
| 2018-05-12 | Caleb Blankenship | Minichiello Path (FBH) | 7 | We took down 3 dead white pines and cleared the ones that were blocking the trail. | Jack Platt | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Caleb Blankenship | Skyline Trail | 7.5 | Cleared some downed trees along St. Moritz Pond | Jack Platt, Jen Petrosius, Gavin Thomas, Rachel Costantini | ||
| 2018-07-07 | Caleb Blankenship | Winter Carnival Path (FBH) | 14 | Cut down more of the dead white pines. | Jack Platt, Joe Woodman, Goat | ||
| 2018-08-06 | Bob Vogel | White Tail Path (FBH) | 2 | Brushing, cut tree branches growing into the trail, as well as smaller trees leaning into the trail. Picked up sticks. Cut back blueberry bushes growing into the trail. | Pete Tierney, Skip Maysles, Richie Monarch, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-08-06 | Bob Vogel | Fox Hill Path | 2 | Brushing, cut tree branches growing into the trail, as well as smaller trees leaning into the trail. Picked up sticks. | Pete Tierney, Skip Maysles, Richie Monarch, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-08-06 | Bob Vogel | Pine Tree Brook Path | 2 | Brushing, cut tree branches growing into the trail, as well as smaller trees leaning into the trail. Picked up sticks. | Pete Tierney, Skip Maysles, Richie Monarch, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-08-06 | Bob Vogel | Adams Path (FBH) | 3 | Brushing, cut tree branches growing into the trail, as well as smaller trees leaning into the trail. Picked up sticks. | Pete Tierney, Skip Maysles, Richie Monarch, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-08-06 | Bob Vogel | Ridge Path | 2 | Brushing, cut tree branches growing into the trail, as well as smaller trees leaning into the trail. Picked up sticks. | Pete Tierney, Skip Maysles, Richie Monarch, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-08-06 | Bob Vogel | Indian Camp Path | 1 | Brushing, cut tree branches growing into the trail, as well as smaller trees leaning into the trail. Picked up sticks. | Pete Tierney, Skip Maysles, Richie Monarch, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-09-15 | Rob Hirseman | Quarry Trail | 31.5 | Just below Eastern crossing of Wampatuck Road. Cleared drainage from road and installed large grade reversal to channel drainage across trail. Were only able to complete roughly half of the grade reversal. | Will Nelson, Joe Nelson, Jason Gershman, Ethan Zimmerman, Mike O'Malley, Joe Woodman, Ruth Bigio, Anna MacDougall | Complete grade reversal. May still require additional drainage structure closer to road. | Very large dead tree leaning over trail, being held up by large branch of another dead tree. Needs to be removed. |
| 2018-09-16 | Rob Hirseman | Quarry Trail | 7 | Project from work day ran out of time to finish so Bob and I went back Sunday morning to get to a better stopping point. Added rocks to grade reversal and worked on grading the ditch at the top of the reversal. A tropical storm rolled through on Tuesday and I went back to see how it held up and it did really well, taking a lot of water. But there was a lot of erosion as well so it could use some reinforcement like an additional layer of rocks in the reversal itself. | Bob Flagg | As noted above, could use some further reinforcement based on the erosion we saw from the couple of storms that have come through since. | Two large, dead trees lean precariously over the trail right at this structure. |
| 2018-09-29 | Rob Hirseman | Quarry Trail | 6 | We added a second row of stones to the grade reversal and started layering flat rocks on the bottom of the trench, working our way up from the bottom. | Bob Flagg | Stone work should continue, and there probably needs to be another reversal added closer to the road to deal with the impressive volume of water coming onto the trail there. | |
| 2018-09-23 | Bob Flagg | Quarry Trail | 1.5 | Worked on new structure added 9/15/18 to install stones in the grade reversal to prevent water from eroding the dirt over the stones. Also started to armour floor of collection ditch to prevent erosion and improve water flow. | Need to continue adding stones to armour floor and prevent erosion of grade reversal structure. | ||
| 2018-10-07 | Rob Hirseman | Murphy Path | 4 | Maintenance and blazing. Cleaned out grade reversal near 4220. Also continued blazing of green dot loop clockwise from 4205 to 4145. Loop now completely re-blazed. | Small creek crossing trail at base of hill near 4155 is getting blocked by erosion coming off hill causing flooding. Needs to be cleaned up to let water flow through. I'll probably tackle this later this fall since it is on my trail (Skyline). Culvert near 4135 seems to be blocked - large pools of water on both sides, eroding/flooding trail on down hill side. | ||
| 2018-06-16 | Dave Humphreys | Indian Camp Path | 6 | Cleared trees and brush from path | Patrick Fox, Finn Suppelsa, Henry Synnott, Liam Goodman, Brian Fox, Jimmy Suppelsa | ||
| 2018-06-16 | Dave Humphreys | Crags Foot Path | 6 | Cleared trees and brush from trail. | Patrick Fox, Finn Suppelsa, Henry Synnott, Liam Goodman, Brian Fox, Jimmy Suppelsa | ||
| 2018-11-18 | Bob Flagg | Quarry Trail | 3 | Continue work on new structure added 9/15/18. Widened the ditch and added dirt in front of rocks to provide ramp over the structure. Flatten the ditch upslope on trail to move water flow away from the structure. | Rob Hirschman |