- GET 2024 day 10, Oct 10, Thursday
- Start San Mateo Spring campsite
- End San Mateo Spring campsite
- Cleared uncountable trees from 1.0 miles of Apache Kid Trail
Today my plan is to only saw, and leave the loppers at camp. First the route goes through a burn area with many standing snags.
And then we get to aspen, early growers after a fire.
The aspen is really encroaching on the trail corridor, and it would have been hard to resist lopping if I had brought the tool.
Several tangles of trees are cleared. I can see from saw marks that a crew has already gone through cutting, but many fresh trees are down since then.
Often trees can be moved off the trail without a cut, but long aspen and many!branching fir ensures that plenty of sawing was needed.
Being late in the season, possibly no one else will hike this trail before winter snow and wind. Try not to think about all the fresh blow-downs that will happen before the next hiker…