Category: Trail Projects

• GET 2024 day 6, Oct 6, Monday
• Start basecamp lower Shipman
• End basecamp lower Shipman
• Cleared over 40 logs, mostly no-cut

Today the work would be above Myers Spring, all the way to the saddle and Myers Cabin, about 0.8 miles in length.

First a few tangles need to be cleared.

Finally the logs start gettting larger in diameter, and a wedge can be helpful.

Along a talus field, brush still somehow finds a way to grow along the trail, and only along the trail, needing lopping.

The Myers Cabin ruins are burned in past fires and vanished, but a basement foundation remains.

The workday is long, and sleep comes fast.

• GET 2024 day 5, Oct 5, Saturday
• Start basecamp
• End basecamp
• Lopping and clearing logs

After lopping on exposed mountainside slope, it was a relief to move into shaded oak and conifer forest near Myers Spring, where several blowdowns needed to be cleared.

Finished audiobook Planet of the Damned, by Harry Harrison.

Finished audiobook The Gem Collector, by P G Wodehouse.

• GET 2024 day 4, Oct 4, Friday
• Start basecamp
• End basecamp
• Lopping and some cairns

Early in the morning while still dark, I make out in the starlight an animal with a white brushy tail approaching camp. My first thought is “skunk”, but later in the day I notice squirrels with a light gray patch on the tail.

The lower half of this section of trail to the ridge is finished. I worked towards the car, and resupply food at the car. Hiker hunger is kicking in.

I hear an elk bugle at 9am. Later I hear an odd clinking. It is an elk, male, on top of a talus field way high, dislodging rock. My camera is not fast enough for a photo.

Finally I can start working the upper section of trail for half the day. It helps to be working towards a water source. I do somehow get off trail and onto a game trail on my way back to camp. Oops.

Finished audiobook Retief Intergalactic Diplomat in Space