Blue Hill Section Trail Work Reports – 2019
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Date | Name | Trail | Hours | Work | Volunteers | Remaining Work | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-06 | Bob Flagg | Summit Trail | 2.5 | Cleaned culverts and side ditch (about 40 yards) at intersection with Green Dot Trail. Ditch was blocked with branches, rocks and dirt. | Need to continue cleaning remainder of ditch. Also need to walk the trail to develop complete restoration of existing structures to improve flow. | ||
| 2019-01-12 | Bob Flagg | Bartol Path | 1 | Performed light brushing on trail. | |||
| 2019-01-12 | Bob Flagg | Carberry Path | 1.5 | Performed light brushing on trail. Removed thorn bushes along the trail. Remove small amount of trash. | |||
| 2019-01-07 | Sandra Johnson | Chestnut Run Path | 6 | Cleared culvert of leaves. Cleared ditch and all water run off areas of leaves. Picked up big sticks and moved them off trail. | |||
| 2019-01-18 | Sandra Johnson | Chestnut Run Path | 1 | Touched up | None until spring! | A longer term project--beyond my scope--would be putting in a drainage ditch further up the hill on its steepest part between #1175 and #1191. There is a lower drainage ditch that I keep cleared but the steepest part of the hill, which is above the existing drainage ditch-- is very rutted. | |
| 2019-02-02 | Bob Flagg | Eliot Path (FBH) | 0.5 | Walked path removing branches from the trail. | |||
| 2019-02-02 | Bob Flagg | Eliot Circle | 1.5 | Performed significant brushing of trail to remove scrub oak and other trees growing over the trail. Picked up small amount of trash. | |||
| 2019-02-03 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 3 | Road to 1120. Picked up LOTS of sticks. Two downed trees before 1120, One I could cut up. The second is 12"plus. I limbed it and, with help from 2 people passing by, used levers tp slide it to the side of the trail. Chainsaw needed to cut up trunk. Then, just before 1120 there was a pine tree down diagonally across the trail. I limbed it, then cut off the top, to allow people (and bikes) to pass without having to step over. | |||
| 2019-02-02 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 0.75 | Cleared 1141 to 1135. One tree down across trail. Mostly picking up sticks. | Street to 1141 | ||
| 2019-02-02 | Bob Vogel | Border Path | 0.75 | Cleared small blowdowns and picked up sticks 1135 to 1114. | The rest of the trail... | ||
| 2019-02-02 | Bob Vogel | Rotch Path | 0.75 | Picked up sticks. One tree down into the trail cleared. | Large top of tree fell, standing, into the trail, and is hung up in another tree. Too big for me to cut up, needs chainsaw. I tried to 'shake' it to get it to fall, but it wouldn't come down. | ||
| 2019-02-02 | Bob Vogel | Skyline Trail North | 0.75 | Picked up sticks, trimmed one branch, 1141 to 1170. | The rest of the trail... plus there are two small pines leaning over the trail just up from 1141. Not in the way today, but snow may bring them down. | ||
| 2019-02-09 | Bob Flagg | Border Path | 1 | Walked trail removing branches from the trail and side ditches from Unquity Rd to 1165. | |||
| 2019-02-09 | Bob Flagg | Base Path Connector | 0.5 | Walked trail removing branches from the trail. | |||
| 2019-02-10 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Trail | 1 | Inspected the entire trail. Removed branches from the trail. Cleared rocks, branches, and leaves from drainages. Brushing near the north end of the trail. | Brushing and/or removal of greenbriars from the south end of the trail. | ||
| 2019-03-13 | Sandra Johnson | Chestnut Run Path | 0.25 | Didn't work on my trail. Want to report a tree down. See below | I was cross country skiing yesterday near Ponkapoag Golf Course and saw a big tree down at 5174. | ||
| 2019-03-17 | len ulbricht | Skyline Trail North | 3 | • Surveyed North Skyline to identify 2019 work needed. • Cut down two 4-6 inch diameter dead trees between 1141 and 1117 leaning over trail and dragged cut trees off trail. • Identified 4 rock waterbars on Great Blue Hill section needing cleanout, one of which needs waterbar extension to keep runoff from returning to trail. | |||
| 2019-03-26 | Jessica Baumgart | Hancock Hill Path | 0.25 | None: I didn't hike Hancock Hill Path. From Hemenway Hill Path, I could see a tree down across the trail and wanted to report it via this form. | From Hemenway Hill Path, I could see a tree down across Hancock Hill Path. Other blowdowns in the general area need a chainsaw. While this tree could probably be removed with lots of handsawing, if the chainsaw crew is visiting this area, perhaps they could remove this tree, too. | ||
| 2019-03-26 | Jessica Baumgart | Hemenway Hill Path | 0.25 | Not too much, actually. | Two trees are piled across the trail between 1178 and 1154 (and much closer to 1178). I already marked them on the Blue Hills tree map Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFzXuSWImqiRD4Pt7k-D70hG8y-5tUg4Exeo9tb9rQQ/ . I recommend a chainsaw. Other trees easier removed with a chainsaw than hand saw are in the general area, like one on Hancock Hill Path and Eustis Trail. | ||
| 2019-03-26 | Jessica Baumgart | Eustis Trail | 0.25 | Not too much | A tree is down across Eustis Trail closer to 1140 than to 1166. It's already on the Blue Hills blowdown Google doc, so perhaps it's already been reported: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFzXuSWImqiRD4Pt7k-D70hG8y-5tUg4Exeo9tb9rQQ/. I recommend a chainsaw, though handsawing is possible. Other chainsaw work is in the area (Hemenway Hill Path and Hancock Hill Path). It looks like folks have improvised some kind of bike ramp or something like that out of logs up and over the fallen tree. The tree is flat on the ground and it isn't that big (I stepped over it easily), so the ramp isn't too big or elaborate or anything. | ||
| 2019-03-30 | Bob Flagg | Rotch Path | 1 | Removed trees acrosss trail, removed branches from trail | Vic Babel, John Miller | ||
| 2019-03-30 | Bob Flagg | Houghton Path | 1.5 | Removed branches from trail, cleaned two grade reversals from Hillside St to Skyline. | Vic Babel, John Miller | ||
| 2019-03-30 | Bob Flagg | Five Corners Path | 1.5 | Removed branches from trail. | Vic Babel, John Miller | ||
| 2019-03-31 | Bob Flagg | Five Corners Path | 1.5 | Removed large and medium sized trees from trail near Eustis Path. | Joe Greeley, Sue Bartlett | ||
| 2019-04-09 | len ulbricht | Skyline Trail North | 9 | Work section: rock steps and water-bars uphill from 1092 trail intersection. Cleaned out all four rock water-bars and scrapped off leaves, compacted soil and scree from rock steps | Ute Anderson and John Schepis | ||
| 2019-04-18 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 1.5 | Continued with spring cleanup to the end of my section (Elliot Tower). Cleaned stone stairs of leaf debris. Picked up trash. Cut and removed 4 foot section of loose copper cable in the trail near Elliot Tower. | Remove large boulder blocking the trail just before the first stone stairs near Rt. 138. Last week I was able to roll a large boulder to the side of the trail. Since then another even larger boulder has been dislodged and now blocks the trail. It is possible for hikers to get around it. It will require several people with rock bars and straps to move this boulder off the trail. | ||
| 2019-04-11 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 1.5 | Cleaned water bars. Picked up debris on trail. Cleaned stone stairs of leaf debris. Moved large dislodged rock at the beginning of the stone stairs to one side. | Complete spring cleanup of remaining half of adopted section. | ||
| 2019-04-27 | Mimi Kugler | Breakneck Ledge Path | 3 | Inspected the entire trail. Cleaned two grade reversals, the ledge waterbar, rolling dip, and two culverts. Cut a few small roots that were sticking out of the ground in the trail (tripping hazards). Raked leaves from the trail in a few places. | |||
| 2019-04-13 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.25 | Walked trail removed falling branches | None | ||
| 2019-05-18 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 0.75 | Moved large dislodged boulder off the trail. Re positioned smaller boulder in front of rock stairs to reinforce bottom rocks. | Bob Flagg, Bob Mazairz, Joe Woodman | Have observed several rocks including two large boulders getting moved or rolled into the trail. Some of it seems more deliberate than accidental. | |
| 2019-04-06 | John Goldrosen | Hemenway Hill Path | 3.5 | Cut and removed downed trees and branches on this trail and others along the Hemenway Hill Path and others on the Blue Hills Trail Races courses. | |||
| 2019-04-27 | John Goldrosen | Jeffries Trail | 24 | Removed downed branches/trees and trimmed overhanging vegetation along Blue Hills Trail Races course, including Rotch, Border, Chestnut Run, Jeffries, Breakneck Ledge, Houghton Hill, Houghton, Coon Hollow, Half-Way, Wildcat Notch, Puddle, Five Corners, and Eustis Paths. | 12 volunteers (from Colonial Road Runners) | ||
| 2019-06-14 | Chris Mullin | Base Path | 0.25 | Brushing | |||
| 2019-06-14 | Chris Mullin | Jeffries Trail | 0.5 | Brushing | |||
| 2019-06-14 | Chris Mullin | Hemenway Hill Path | 0.25 | Brushing | |||
| 2019-06-14 | Chris Mullin | Eustis Trail | 0.25 | Brushing | |||
| 2019-06-07 | Judy Lehrer Jacobs | Wolcott Path | 24 | Raked ditches until about 1160. | Kevin Bonnett Liam Egan Raymond Mahoney Jen Murgia Zachary Payne Stephen Rollins Zachary Santilli Colton Schilling | Ditches continue on trail. | |
| 2019-06-30 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Hill Path | 5 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out and reshaped all drainage structures. Removed branches from the trail. Brushing. | |||
| 2019-06-30 | Mimi Kugler | Houghton Trail | 1.5 | Inspected the entire trail. Brushing at the north end of the trail. Removed branches from the trail. Raked out all drainage structures. | The greenbriars and other thorny bushes are really growing in along and into the south end of the trail up to the intersection with Accord Path. A trail crew with a mechanical brush cutter will be needed to correct this problem- a temporary solution that should last a few years. There is also long grass growing along and in the trail and drainage structures, which I have never seen before. I'm not sure how to deal with the grass but it appears to be developing into a problem. | ||
| 2019-07-06 | Dexter Robinson | Accord Path | 17.5 | Brushed and cleared trail from intersection with Brookwood trail west to about a tenth of a mile from intersection with Skyline Trail. Also brushed a short overgrown section near the parking lot next to the trail. | Joanne Newton, Linda Douglas, Joe Nelson, Bill Nelson | Brush remaining trail to the ski slope | |
| 2019-07-06 | Bob Vogel | Five Corners Path | 2 | Cleaned out three water bars between 1135 and 1140. One just needed raking of leaves, two had to be dug out. | Ed Fopiano | ||
| 2019-07-06 | Bob Vogel | Houghton Path | 1 | Cleaned sticks off trail. Cut 4 trees that were leaning into trail as a result of one being partly broken 1/2 way up. | Joanne Newton | ||
| 2019-07-06 | Bob Flagg | Hemenway Hill Path | 27 | Cleaned all grade reversals from 1203 to 1140, removed large tree crossing trail | Linda Church, Jacob Koster, John Hirtle, Joe Woodman, Michael Barrett, Ruth Bigio, Jack Platt | ||
| 2019-07-06 | Bob Flagg | Hancock Hill Path | 1 | Cleaned three grade reversals near 1204 | Jacob Koster | ||
| 2019-07-17 | Anna MacDougall | Half Way Path | 1.3 | Cleaned two reverse, removed some branches from trail | There is a branch down about 100 feet from tree number 1093 not my trail only had clippers and rake with me next time will take a bow saw. | None sported very quiet | |
| 2019-07-26 | Dexter Robinson | Skyline Trail West | 1.5 | Brushed trail section, removed debris, cleaned stone stairs and waterbars, picked up trash. | Check trail section near Eliot tower | ||
| 2019-08-18 | Bob Flagg | Summit Road | 0.5 | Walked side ditch removing debris and branches. Inspected recent work - looked good | |||
| 2019-09-04 | Anna Macdougall | Half Way Path | 1.25 | Removed three various size branches from tne trail. Very quiet two streams had water but we're not flowing | None | Just to rake out the two reverses this fall | No wildlife spotted |
| 2019-10-05 | Mimi Kugler | Breakneck Ledge Path | 2.5 | Inspected the entire trail. Raked out the six drainage structures, in preparation for the autumn leaf fall. Removed branches from the trail. Cut off two branches that were overhanging the trail. | After most of the autumn leaves have fallen, rake out and reshape the grade reversals, ledge waterbar, rolling dip, and clear the culverts, including outflow ditches. | ||
| 2019-10-05 | Bob Flagg | Skyline Trail South | 14 | Walked trail and cleaned out all drainage structures | Joe Woodman, Kenny Voshell, Tom Swantan | ||
| 2019-09-29 | Bob Flagg | Wildcat Notch Path | 2.5 | Clean all drainage structures on trail, removed medium sized tree blocking trail. | |||
| 2019-11-10 | Kenneth Voshell | Skyline Trail South | 2.5 | Clearing all trenches on grade reversals of leaves and other debris built up to allow for better drainage. Trimmed some trees overhanging the trail. Cleaned trash along the trail. Removed other miscellaneous debris from the trail. | There are 3 large down trees that need to be cleared with heavier equipment (all on South Skyline Trail): - About 100 yards west from the start of the South Skyline Trail at Hillside St - you can see Hillside St from the down tree. - About 15 yards east of where South Skyline crosses Houghton Path - About 15 yards west of where South Skyline crosses Houghton Path | ||
| 2019-11-17 | Sandra Johnson | Chestnut Run Path | 4 | Removed leaves from ditch at side of path, culvert, and other waterways along path. Removed sticks and small limbs from path. | Peter Fifield | ||
| 2019-11-23 | Denise Butler | Puddle Path | 1 | Cleaned major culvert on the trail and cleared minor branches and small tree that had fallen onto trail. Cleared under larger fallen tree across edge of water bar at the beginning of the trail so that water can flow underneath. Removed and discarded 3 dog waste bags thrown on the side of the trail. |