- GET 2024 day 24, Oct 24, Thursday
- Start San Mateo Spring campsite
- End San Mateo Spring campsite
- 22 one-cuts, many no-cuts, cleared 0.4 miles
My plan is to start at the northern terminus of Shipman Trail, where it intersects with Apache kid Trail, and to work south clearing trees until eventually connecting up to sections that are already cleared.
A large tangle starts the day.
Another major tangle is on a sloped switchback. It might be hard to see the distant logs in the grass.
This one switchback is taking half a work-day. Ouch.
Typical diameter for logs to be cut today is one foot, often ponderosa, often scorched with hardened wood or new with high moisture content and sticky.
One-cut means that I only have to cut the log once, and can drag both ends off the trail. No-cut means I can drag or pivot or roll the entire log off the trail, only needing to break or saw branches first. Today I completed 22 one-cuts and many more no-cuts.
Finished audiobook Lost Man’s Lane, by Anna Katharine Green.