Blue Hill Section Trail Work Reports – 2018
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Date | Name | Trail | Hours | Work | Volunteers | Remaining Work | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-14 | Bob Flagg | Wildcat Notch Path | 3.00 | Walked trail removing branches after heavy rain & winds overnight and that day put lots of water on the trail. Removed crown from large oak tree off the trail right at the beginning near Accord Path. | Chris Mullin | There was a huge amount of water flowing from Marker 1103 to the split before Marker 1115. The work done previously to stabilize the trail looked great and kept the trail intact. Need to get out there and try to deepen the outflow and clean them to improve water flow. The culvert at the bottom of the hill could use some cleaning, too. | |
| 2018-01-14 | Bob Flagg | Coon Hollow Path | 1.50 | Walked trail removing branches after heavy rain & winds overnight and that day put lots of water on the trail. Cut and removed large branches near Marker 1082, cleaned side ditch of debris. New grade reversal at top of slope below Marker 1082 looked good diverting water into side ditch. Other new structure about 100 yards upslope added last year worked well. | Chris Mullin | Need to remove debris from two grade reversals just after the trail dog-legs to the righ below Marker 1082. Also, the side ditch needs more improvements. | |
| 2018-01-21 | Len Ulbricht | Skyline Trail North | 2.50 | Cleared trail of fallen branches. Sawed and removed from trail several fallen and leaning trees & saplings. | 5 inch diameter tree leaning across trail between 1117 and 1141, 200 or so yards from 1141. 6 foot clearance at low side of trail, 8-10 feet on other side. May need 4 foot ladder and chain saw to remove. | ||
| 2017-11-19 | Dave Humphreys | Border Path | 0.75 | Cleared and repacked water bars and removed trees and debris from trail | |||
| 2017-11-19 | Dave Humphreys | Rotch Path | 0.25 | Removed tree debris from trail. | |||
| 2018-01-07 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.5 | Removed some downed branches. Need to remove down tree from Path.will need to cleaning out of the two reverses, once the Winter is over | removal of down tree on Path between markers 1093 and 1110. | ||
| 2018-02-10 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 3 | Picked up sticks, cleaned some of the non-frozen leaves out of water bars. No big branches or trees down. | Did half the trail as part of DCR Blue Hills Walking Club/ Southeastern Hiking Meetup Group hike, led by Maggie Brown. (I made a sales pitch for FBH Trailwork and trail adoption to the 40+ folks on the hike. 🙂 Then, after the hike I went and finished the other half of the trail. | ||
| 2018-02-10 | Bob Flagg | Border Path | 2 | Walked trail removing branches from trail and side ditches. Unblocked culverts at start of trail near Unquity Road, another below cutoff to Eustis Path and one at intersection with Rotch Path. Removed medium sized tree across trail just below Chestnut Run. | Need to do further cleaning on culverts near Unquity; side ditch at Marker 1175 to the first grade reversal (about 100 feet) and side ditches from Chestnut Run up the hill past the Unquity cutoff. Also need to dig out the grade reversals further up the hill past Five Corners Path. This could be work for up to three groups. | ||
| 2018-02-10 | Bob Flagg | Puddle Path | 0.5 | Walked trail to review status, removed some branches from trail. | Trail overall in good shape but needs work on the grade reversals at the beginning of the trail near Wolcott Path. These structures need a significant digout that could be a good work project for 6 people. | ||
| 2018-03-05 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 2 | Cut two large trees across trail. Also removed a couple smaller tress and many, many smaller fallen branches. | Where possible, trench areas where water collects, so it can more easily drain from the rail. | There was a lot of water on the trail today. (But then again I have a pond in my front yard right now... ) Trail was passable. | |
| 2018-03-17 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 9 | Cleared all downed trees and branches from trail. | Bobby Vogel | 9 hours of HARD work to clear just over 1 mile of trail, and I had cleared if after the previous storm. There were no 'big' (chain saw required) trees across the trail, but countless small trees. Some broken off and laying across the trail, others bent down across the trail. Some hardwoods would spring up after being freed from the snow, most pines were too far bent over and had to be cut. But, as of this evening, Five Corners Path is again clear end to end. | |
| 2018-03-20 | Bob Vogel | Accord Path | 2 | Cut two downed trees near 1086. Also cut one 6" tree across the trail on the hill above 1086. | Bobby Vogel | ||
| 2018-03-24 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 2 | Cut and cleared several blowdowns. Walked remainder of adopted trail to Eliot Tower. Removed debris. Cleaned stone stairs nearest Rt. 138. Skyline Trail from Rt. 138 to Eliot Tower is now cleared. | |||
| 2018-03-25 | James Green | Coon Hollow Path | 2 | removal of numerous downed limbs and branches. cleared stream blockage | Sighted herd (5) deer near trail entrance. | ||
| 2018-03-25 | Caleb Blankenship | Wildcat Notch Path | 8 | Cleared many downed branches | Bob Flagg, Ruth Bigio | Some trees down that require chainsaw. | |
| 2018-03-27 | Pete Tierney | Skyline Trail South | 12.5 | Clear blowdowns between Hillside St. and intersection 1083 | Skip, Bob, John, Pam, Mary | ||
| 2018-03-27 | Pete Tierney | Skyline Trail North | 5 | Clear blowdowns from 1141 to 1192 | Ed, Leslie, Ken, Bob, Len | ||
| 2018-03-27 | Pete Tierney | Wolcott Path | 2.5 | Clear blowdowns from 1141 to 1147 | Ed, Leslie, Ken, Bob, Len | ||
| 2018-03-27 | Pete Tierney | Houghton Hill Path | 5 | Clear blowdowns 1147 to Hillside St. | Ed, Leslie, Ken, Bob, Len | ||
| 2018-03-27 | Pete Tierney | Coon Hollow Path | 2.5 | Clear blowdowns on Green Dot near intersection 1083 to intersection 1120 | Ed, Leslie, Ken, Bob, Len | ||
| 2018-04-01 | James Green | Coon Hollow Path | 3 | Cleared Stream 0.15 miles. Cleared waterbars, and downed branches from Hillside Street trail-head to Wildcat Notch Path | Widow-maker over trail just prior to marker #1092 | Stream flowing freely, high volume. | |
| 2018-04-03 | Bob Vogel | Accord Path | 0.5 | Cut up tree across trail near 1151 | |||
| 2018-04-03 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Trail | 1 | Removed tree across trail near 1151. Another smaller one part way up. moved downed branches. | There are two big (one 18" or more) pine trees stacked across the trail 2/3 of the way up. Need a chain saw. | ||
| 2018-04-03 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Hill Path | 1 | Removed tree across trail near top, and many downed branches and small trees. | |||
| 2018-04-03 | Bob Vogel | Hancock Hill Path | 1 | Removed a downed tree near 1160 (where someone had recently just cut a bigger tree.) Also smaller ones and top of tree just past there. | |||
| 2018-04-07 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Path | 1.25 | Cut downed trees. Removed downed limbs from trail. | |||
| 2018-04-07 | Bob Vogel | Wolcott Path | 1 | Cut downed trees. Removed downed limbs from trail. | |||
| 2018-04-07 | Bob Vogel | Breakneck Ledge Path | 1 | Cut downed trees. Removed downed limbs from trail. | |||
| 2018-04-07 | Bob Vogel | Hemenway Hill Path | 1 | Cut downed trees. Removed downed limbs from trail. | |||
| 2018-04-07 | Bob Vogel | Skyline Trail North | 0.5 | Cut downed trees. Removed downed limbs from trail. | |||
| 2018-04-01 | Anna Macdougall | Half Way Path | 2 | cleared away small branches. | To move the trees that are leaning and the one small down tree that is across the path. there is a very big tree down between marker 1110 and coon hollow path that will need a chainsaw and three helpers to remove. It was very difficult to get to the path from the parking lot due to the many small and large trees that are down on the trails leading to marker 1081 the start of my path | ||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Wolcott Path | 1 | Walked trail from trailhead at Rt 138 to 1122 removing many branches from trail after three storms this winter. | There is an area on heavy erosion of the roadbed east of 1085. Will notify DCR (althought they are probably aware of it). | ||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Rotch Path | 0.25 | Walked trail removing many branches from trail after three storms this winter. | |||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Border Path | 1.5 | Walked trail from 1100 to 1175 removing many branches from trail after three storms this winter. Also trimmed back quite a few smaller trees overhanging trail. | |||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Chestnut Run Path | 0.75 | Walked trail removing many branches from trail after three storms this winter. | |||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Pipsissewa Path (FBH) | 1 | Walked trail removing many branches from trail after three storms this winter. | Bob Vogel | ||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Hemenway Hill Path | 2.5 | Walked trail from 1203 to 1154 removing many branches and small trees from trail after three storms this winter. | Bob Vogel | ||
| 2018-04-14 | Bob Flagg | Jeffries Trail | 1.5 | Walked trail removing many branches and small trees from trail after three storms this winter. | Bob Vogel | There were three monster pine trees with large crowns on the trail upslope from 1182. Will take a major chain saw effort to remove. | |
| 2018-04-14 | Denise Butler | Puddle Path | 1 | Major cutting/clearing of downed trees/limbs had already occured. I removed minor debris from trail/main culvert/water bars. | Work may need to be done on water bars as there was minor erosion to the surrounding trail. Plan on getting out to the trail in early May to address these issues. | ||
| 2018-04-21 | Anna Macdougall | Half Way Path | 200 | Cut away down branches going into the path. Path has already been cleared of all downed trees. I cut down the three trees that were leaning over the path and removed branches from path. The HAlf Way Path in now clear | None | ||
| 2018-04-21 | Anna Macdougall | Half Way Path | 200 | Cut away down branches going into the path. Path has already been cleared of all downed trees. I cut down the three trees that were leaning over the path and removed branches from path. The HAlf Way Path in now clear | None | ||
| 2018-04-26 | Bob Vogel | Border Path | 1.5 | On the 'Other' side of Unquity Rd 1215 - 1224. Cut downed trees and picked up downed branches. (Also includes 'Unquity Road' section of single dot trail, which doesn't seem to have a name?? | There are a couple big (One 24" dia or so) trees laying across the trail. I cut all of the smaller ones, but those two need a chainsaw. | The Unquity single dot section and this section of Border path seem to get a lot of bike use. Bikers seem to prefer traveling there to being on Unquity road with the high speed cars. As such it does get a lot of use. They have piled logs next to the big tree to help get over it, but getting it cut would be a big improvement. | |
| 2018-04-28 | Dexter Robinson | Accord Path | 0.25 | Cleared fallen limbs, brush, and debris off trail | Linda Car, Steven Le, Donna Paterson, Nick Cocca, Kathy Ronguez | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Dexter Robinson | Houghton Hill Path | 0.75 | Cleared fallen limbs, brush, and debris off trail | Linda Car, Steven Le, Donna Paterson, Nick Cocca, Kathy Ronguez | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Dexter Robinson | Wolcott Path | 0.25 | Cleared fallen limbs, brush, and debris off trail | Linda Car, Steven Le, Donna Paterson, Nick Cocca, Kathy Ronguez | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Dexter Robinson | Jeffries Trail | 0.75 | Cleared fallen limbs, brush, and debris off trail | Linda Car, Steven Le, Donna Paterson, Nick Cocca, Kathy Ronguez | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Dexter Robinson | Circle Trail | 0.5 | Cleared fallen limbs, brush, and debris off trail | Linda Car, Steven Le, Donna Paterson, Nick Cocca, Kathy Ronguez | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Dexter Robinson | Hancock Hill Path | 1 | Cleared fallen limbs, brush, and debris off trail. Trimmed encroaching branches. | Linda Car, Steven Le, Donna Paterson, Nick Cocca, Kathy Ronguez | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Mimi Kugler | Breakneck Ledge Path | 2 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out the following drainage structures, including the outflow ditches, to remove leaves, pine needles, branches, and stones (distances from Wolcott Path): Grade reversal at 200 ft (formerly a wood waterbar). Grade reversal at 266 ft (formerly a rolling dip). Ledge waterbar at 367 ft. Rolling dip at .17 miles. Two culverts at the north end of the trail. At the southernmost grade reversal, a dead tree had fallen across the outflow ditch, and many small branches had accumulated there. Using a folding saw, all of this was removed from the outflow path. Removed branches from the trail. | Reshape the grade reversals and rolling dip using a shovel and other tools. | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Hill Path | 0.5 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out the following drainage structures, including the outflow ditches, (distances from Wolcott Path): Grade reversal at 90 ft (formerly a wood waterbar) Rolling dip at 430 ft. Branches were removed from the trail. | |||
| 2018-04-28 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Trail | 0.5 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out the two grade reversals on the upper/north half of the trail, as well as several unofficial drainages. Removed branches from the trail. Removed litter, which was less voluminous than usual on this trail, and mostly near the trailhead across from the Houghton Pond parking lot. | Reshape the two grade reversals using a shovel and other tools. | There are currently three blowdowns that cross the trail. A red maple, about six inches in diameter is near the south end of the trail. This one could be removed using a handsaw. Higher up on the trail there are two blowdowns one on top of the other, averaging 12 inches diameter; these will need to be removed with a chainsaw. | |
| 2018-05-01 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 2 | Cleaned out water bars, used shovel to clean stone stairs, minor brushing, picked up trash up to and around Eliot Tower | Lots of ground water running | ||
| 2018-05-03 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Trail | 0.5 | Cut 8" tree down across trail., between 1151 and road. | |||
| 2018-05-04 | Bob Vogel | Base Path | 0.75 | Cut 6-8" tree across trail. Cut a few smaller pines bent into trail Picked up sticks. | |||
| 2018-05-04 | Bob Vogel | Hemenway Hill Path | 0.5 | Cut trees down into trail. Picked up sticks. Added more brush to the piles at junction of Jeffries trail, where the misplaced 1154 sign used to send people off on a deer trail. | |||
| 2018-05-04 | Bob Vogel | Jeffries Trail | 0.5 | Picked up sticks. | Great!!! to see big downed trees have now been cut, allowing passage through there! | ||
| 2018-05-04 | Bob Vogel | Hancock Trail | 0.33 | Tried to pick up sticks, etc., but following the upper section of the trail was impossible due to the number of bootleg trails wandering around the area. | Upper section of this trail needs to be blazed in some way, so one can tell the 'real' trail from all of the bootleg trails. It's a maze, and since everyone just blunders through more and more bootleg trails develop. | ||
| 2018-04-28 | John Goldrosen | Chestnut Run Path | 28 | Cleared downed branches and trimmed foliage from multiple trails (about 10 miles in all), in preparation for Blue Hills Trail Races. Trails include (all or in part): Rotch, Border, Chestnut Run, Jeffries, Hemingway Hill, Breakneck Ledge, Houghton's Hill, Houghton's, Cool Holly, Half-Way, Wildcat Notch, Puddle, Five Corners, and Eustis, as well as unnamed trails between the Auto Road and the Trailside Museum. | Michele Brokmeier, Dick Carnes, Linda Chiofar, Kevin Colby, Elizabeth Eaton, Laurene Ellis, David Kearney, Kathleen Kearney, Michelle Kearney, Jessica Leary, ERic Mellyn, Marybeth Montella, Stephen Smith | ||
| 2018-05-12 | Bob Flagg | Coon Hollow Path | 35 | Cleaned all grade reversals from Hillside Street to 1082, removed a dozen trees that were overhanging trail and cleaned side ditch for 80 yards just below 1082. | Joe Woodman, Rob Hirseman, Bill Nelson, Joe Nelson, Hana Ajalat, Sandy Johnson, Ruth Bigio, Caleb Beebe, Kristen Kercher | Trail could use a good brushing and grade reversals above 1082 should be cleaned. | |
| 2018-05-24 | Jessica Baumgart | Hemenway Hill Path | 4 | We cleared lots of blowdowns from the margins of the trail and kicked out some water diverters. | David Baumgart | ||
| 2018-05-24 | Jessica Baumgart | Eustis Trail | 4 | We cleared a lot of assorted debris from the trail. | David Baumgart | A fallen tree on the portion of the trail closer to 1140 could benefit from a chain saw. It's older and been down for a while. Manual sawing is possible, but chain sawing it would be more efficient. | |
| 2018-05-24 | Jessica Baumgart | Base Path | 4 | We addressed a tree arcing over the trail and removed some other debris. | David Baumgart | Base Path has portions that need lots of drainage work. Parts of the trail look like a stream with an adjacent foot path. Parts of the trail seem to be only stream bed. In places, people have worn impromptu paths just off the trail. | |
| 2018-06-02 | James Green | Coon Hollow Path | 14 | Coon Hollow Path heavy brushing beginning at trail-marker #1082 (intersection with Red Dot Trail) continuing to trail-marker #1055 (Elliot Tower) | Judy Parker, Bob Warren, Daniel Green | ||
| 2018-06-06 | Bob Vogel | Accord Path | 1 | From 1062 east to Houghton Path. Brushed, cut downed trees, picked up sticks off trail. | This section now OK. | ||
| 2018-06-06 | Bob Vogel | Wildcat Notch Path | 0.75 | Brushed, cut downed trees, picked up sticks off trail, Blue Hill River road to jct w/ South Skyline. | |||
| 2018-06-06 | Bob Vogel | Half Way Path | 1 | Brushed, cut downed trees, picked up sticks off trail, 1081 to 1143. | |||
| 2018-06-06 | Bob Vogel | Coon Hollow Path | 0.5 | Brushed, cut downed trees, picked up sticks off trail. | |||
| 2018-06-06 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 0.75 | Brushed, cut downed trees, Cut a couple leaners, picked up sticks off trail. 1120 to Blue Hill River Road | |||
| 2018-06-03 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.3 | Removed down tree from trail, cut some overhead branches. Path is in good shape. | None | None | |
| 2018-04-28 | Caleb Blankenship | Jeffries Trail | 10 | Cleared large tree from trail. | Jack Platt, Jen Petrosius, Gavin Thomas, Rachel Costantini | ||
| 2018-06-26 | Bob Vogel | Unquity Path (FBH) | 1 | Trimmed a ton of greenbriar growing at the 1209 entrance, so I could get in wearing shorts! Cut several large trees across the trail and removed them. Also there were many, many branches down from the pine trees, and I removed them. I also cleared the other (unnamed) trail on that triangle. There was a big branch across the 1206 end. I cut and removed it, as well as general picking up of sticks. | |||
| 2018-06-26 | Sandra Johnson | Chestnut Run Path | 6 | I completed my first maintenance of the Chestnut Run Path on June 26, 2018, taking 3 hours (I also worked on it on June 22, 2018 for 3 hours for a total of 6 hours, noted below). I cut low-hanging branches, and saplings where necessary, dragging the branches off trail. I cleared a drainage ditch of leaves and twigs on the middle part of the trail and a drainage ditch alongside the last part of the trail near the 1175 intersection with the Border Path. I also cleared waterbars and water run-off into the woods. I removed the trash I found (a few plastic dog bags) and deposited it in my trash at home. | The waterbars could be made deeper. A few dead branches on an evergreen tree near the end of the trail (near brook at 1175 intersection) could be removed but were too high for me. I plan to maintain the trail more than twice a year to make sure the waterbars are sufficient. | ||
| 2018-06-25 | Bob Flagg | Border Path | 1 | Cleaned inflow area of the first culvert on the trail from Unquity Rd. Culvert was completely blocked by pine needles, leaves, sticks, etc. | There is a spike in a RR tie on the trail around 1165 that is a hazard. Put a marker on it. Will return shortly to remove. Also noticed grade reversal west of 1135 heading up the hill is missing a rock which stabalizes the structure. Will replace in the next month. | ||
| 2018-07-01 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 2.25 | Brushed and removed tread-way debris. Cleaned stone stairs. Most time spent brushing trail. Picked up some trash. | Covered from Rt. 138 to Eliot Circle trail. Have Eliot Circle section to Eliot Tower to review. | ||
| 2018-07-02 | Bob Vogel | Accord Path | 2.5 | Coon Hollow to 1151: Brushed trails. Cut trees down, or partly down from last winter's storm. Picked up sticks. | Sue Svelnis, Rob MacDonald, Claire MacDonald, Pete Tierney | ||
| 2018-07-02 | Bob Vogel | Coon Hollow Path | 2.5 | Hillside to 1123: Brushed trails. Cut trees down, or partly down from last winter's storm. Picked up sticks. | Sue Svelnis, Rob MacDonald, Claire MacDonald, Pete Tierney | ||
| 2018-07-02 | Bob Vogel | Skyline Trail South | 2.5 | 11123 to Houghton Path; 1156 to Hillside: Brushed trails. Cut trees down, or partly down from last winter's storm. Picked up sticks. | Sue Svelnis, Rob MacDonald, Claire MacDonald, Pete Tierney | ||
| 2018-07-02 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Path | 2.5 | Hillside to South Skyline: Brushed trails. Cut trees down, or partly down from last winter’s storm. Picked up sticks. | Sue Svelnis, Rob MacDonald, Claire MacDonald, Pete Tierney | ||
| 2018-07-02 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Trail | 2 | Brushed trails. Cut trees down, or partly down from last winter’s storm. Picked up sticks. | Sue Svelnis, Rob MacDonald, Claire MacDonald, Pete Tierney | There is one big pine tree, 24ish inch dia, that came down last winter. A new trail has developed to the left around the root ball. This could be cut, and the original trail restored.... or it could be left as is... it does work without too big an issue. | |
| 2018-07-04 | Bob Flagg | Border Path | 2.25 | Enhanced first grade reversal heading west of 1135 adding a rock to stabilize the structure. Cleared vegatation from outflow area. Added dirt to structure. | |||
| 2018-04-28 | Bob Flagg | Puddle Path | 23 | Worked with Boy Scouts to dig out grade reversals and outflow ditches to get water off the trail near 1085. Removed logs and debris from side ditches. | Finn Suppelsa, Sebastian Wright, Ray Wright, Theresa Hayes, Patrick Fox, Henry Synnott, Ian Lundion, Liam Goodman, Ben Mishleski, William Petrik, Fin Carpenter, Brian Fox | ||
| 2018-04-28 | Bob Flagg | Wolcott Path | 22.5 | Worked with Boy Scouts to clear the side ditches around 1085. Removed logs and debris from culverts crossing under the trail. Removed roots blocking one of the culverts. Removed a few small trees to improve access to culverts. | Finn Suppelsa, Sebastian Wright, Ray Wright, Theresa Hayes, Patrick Fox, Henry Synnott, Ian Lundion, Liam Goodman, Ben Mishleski, William Petrik, Fin Carpenter, Brian Fox | ||
| 2018-07-15 | Chris Mullin | Rotch Path | 0.25 | Light brushing | |||
| 2018-07-15 | Chris Mullin | Hemenway Hill Path | 0.25 | Brushing | |||
| 2018-07-15 | Chris Mullin | Jeffries Trail | 0.5 | Brushing | |||
| 2018-07-30 | Bob Vogel | Accord Path | 4 | Brushed the trails. Removed downed limbs. Cut back dead and dying trees leaning into the trail. | Sue Svelnis, Rima Timule, Bill Doherty | none. | |
| 2018-07-30 | Bob Vogel | Half Way Path | 4 | Brushed trail. Cut back dead and dying trees leaning into the trail. Picked up downed branches. | Sue Svelnis, Rima Timule, Bill Doherty | none. | |
| 2018-07-30 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 2 | Brushed trail. Cut back dead and dying trees leaning into the trail. Picked up downed branches. From Blue Hill River Road to Half Way Path | Sue Svelnis, Rima Timule, Bill Doherty | ||
| 2018-09-01 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 1 | Minor brushing, debris removal including several large boulders that had fallen on the stone steps. | |||
| 2018-09-01 | Dexter Robinson | Brookwood Trail | 1.25 | Brushing and clearing trail of debris and dead trees. Cleaned two water bars. | short section of trail south of Accord Path | ||
| 2018-09-01 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.25 | Cleaned out two streams, removed down tree from the beginning on the path. Cut away down branches from overhead tree on trail going to the Half Way Path | None | ||
| 2018-09-01 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.25 | Cleaned out two streams, removed down tree from the beginning on the path. Cut away down branches from overhead tree on trail going to the Half Way Path | None | ||
| 2018-09-14 | Len Ulbricht | Skyline Trail North | 1 | Surveyed North Skyline to areas needing attention and on Hancock Hill cleaned 21 granites steps of scree and caked-on dirt. | Several water bars on Hancock Hill and approach from HQ are filled with scree and dirt that need to be cleaned out. In addition a swale has deteriorated that needs a rock waterbar constructed and another waterbar needs additional rocks (big ones) to effectively divert water. | ||
| 2018-09-15 | Len Ulbricht | Skyline Trail North | 3.5 | Between 1186 and ledges below 1172 cleaned out two waterbars that were leaking water due to buildup of scree and dirt. | At least four other waterbars need attention. Two on trail between HQ and 1186 are clogged with dirt and scree. Two on trail between 1186 and ledges below 1172 need rock waterbar contsructed (swale has disintegrated) or additional rocks installed to effectively divert water off trail. | ||
| 2018-09-20 | Bob Vogel | Skyline Trail North | 1.25 | Cleaned two waterbars on shared section of Wolcott Path/N Skyline. | |||
| 2018-10-13 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.25 | Removed 2 downed tree branches, both streams are flowing good. Path is in good shape. | None | ||
| 2018-10-24 | Dave Humphreys | Rotch Path | 0.5 | Removed downed tree from path | There is a widowmaker next to the trail on Rotch, could be pulled away by a gator. | See above | |
| 2018-10-24 | Dave Humphreys | Border Path | 1 | Repacked water bars | |||
| 2018-11-03 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Trail | 1 | Inspected the entire trail. Removed fallen branches from the trail. Raked out and reshaped the two grade reversals, and raked out two unofficial drainages. | Rake out all drainage structures again after most of the leaves have fallen. Brushing on the south quarter of the trail, and near the north end. | ||
| 2018-11-03 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Hill Path | 1.5 | Inspected the entire trail. Removed branches from the trail. Raked out and reshaped the rolling dip and the grade reversal. | Rake out the drainage structures again after most leaves have fallen. | ||
| 2018-11-03 | Mimi Kugler | Breakneck Ledge Path | 2 | Inspected the trail from its intersection with Wolcott Path to the rolling dip north of the intersection with the North Skyline Trail. Removed branches from the trail. Raked out and reshaped the following drainage structures: grade reversal, grade reversal, ledge waterbar, rolling dip. | Inspect the entire trail end to end. Rake out all drainage structures after most leaves have fallen. Be sure to check and clear any debris from the two culverts near the north end of the trail. | ||
| 2018-11-10 | AMCSEM-Pete Tierney | Cliff Trail (FBH) | 1.5 | Remove large blowdown at upper end of trail near Summit Road | Paul | Trail needs more work to manage water flow. | |
| 2018-11-10 | AMCSEM-Pete Tierney | Cliff Trail (FBH) | 12.5 | Cleared and enhanced grade reversals, water bars and ditches so that water would flow into culvert that goes under the road as opposed to streaming across the road and flowing down the trail on the other side. | Paul, Jon, Cindy, Bob | Work was done to solve immediate problem of water flow across road, the rest of the trail was not evaluated. | |
| 2018-12-01 | Denise Butler | Puddle Path | 1.5 | Removed leaves and debris from culverts and smaller drainages. Everything seems to be flowing - figured most leaves have dropped by now. | A tree had fallen and had been moved to the side of the trail near the lower waterbar - slightly blocking the flow of the waterbar. I was able to move it slightly to allow for better flow, might need to be cut if it is a problem. | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Mimi Kugler | Breakneck Ledge Path | 12 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out the following drainage structures, including the outflow ditches, to remove leaves, pine needles, and stones (distances from Wolcott Path): Grade reversal at 200 ft (formerly a wood waterbar) ; Grade reversal at 266 ft (formerly a rolling dip) ; Ledge waterbar at 367 ft ; Rolling dip at .17 miles. Checked cuverts at .48 and .49 miles. Cleared leaves and small branches from culverts, and their inflow and outflow areas. Cleared branches from the trail. Brushing. Removed some leaves from the trail at its north end. | Jessica Baumgart, Eric Esterling, Elizabeth Cianciola, Susan Horowitz, Jim | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Hill Path | 6 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out the following drainage structures, including the outflow ditches, (distances from Wolcott Path): Grade reversal at 90 ft (formerly a wood waterbar), Rolling dip at 430 ft. Branches were removed from the trail. Brushing. | Jessica Baumgart, Eric Esterling, Elizabeth Cianciola, Susan Horowitz, Jim | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Bob Mazairz | Circle Trail | 7.5 | Brushing | Frank McCaffey, Bill Muddrick, Peter Hodge, Jason Gershman, Benett Gauthier | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Bob Mazairz | Hemenway Hill Path | 4.5 | Brushing between 1180 and 1204 | Frank McCaffey, Bill Muddrick, Peter Hodge, Jason Gershman, Benett Gauthier | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Bob Mazairz | Hancock Hill Path | 4.5 | Brushing | Frank McCaffey, Bill Muddrick, Peter Hodge, Jason Gershman, Benett Gauthier | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Bob Mazairz | Hancock Trail | 4.5 | Brushing | Frank McCaffey, Bill Muddrick, Peter Hodge, Jason Gershman, Benett Gauthier | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Bob Flagg | Wolcott Path | 9.5 | Cleaned grade reversals from 100 yards West of N Skyline at Five Corners to Breakneck Path. | Ruth Bigio, Len Ulbricht, Lila Kee, John Graham, Ben Houston | ||
| 2018-12-08 | Bob Flagg | Skyline Trail North | 10 | Cleaned grade reversals from Wolcott Path near HQ to Wolcott at Five Corners. | Ruth Bigio, Len Ulbricht, Lila Kee, John Graham, Ben Houston | ||
| 2018-12-15 | Bob Flagg | Skyline Trail South | 2.5 | Cleaned grade reversals from Hillside St to 1156. Cleaned green briar from the beginning of the trail. | |||
| 2018-12-15 | Bob Flagg | Houghton Path | 1 | Adjusted grade reversals down the hill from 1143. Structure had been worked on at a recent event but it was too high and needed to be tamped down more. Cleaned out a second grade reversal further down the trail to get it functioning again. | |||
| 2018-12-22 | Bob Flagg | Skyline Trail South | 2.5 | Cleaned all drainage structures from Eliot Circle to Five Corners Path. |