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Club Events 2005 : 2005-08-19 : COC - Trail Maintenance for Friends of Kananaskis

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Today we added an ~80 foot re-route to the Upper Kananaskis Lakes Trail to replace a section of trail where an enormous tree and a bunch of the trail had fallen over and washed out during the spring floods. When we got there, we saw the damaged trail, and our fearless leader, Andy, showed us a section of thick forest with a few marker ribbons showing where we were putting the new trail segment in. We said "PARDON!!??" Well, we managed to do it, and a mighty fine job we did, if we do say so ourselves. We pruned trees, Andy felled trees (chain saw), pulaskied our hearts out, hauled dirt out, hauled dirt in, hauled rocks out, hauled rocks in, hauled duff out, hauled gravel in, hauled deadfall out, hauled deadfall in, smoothed the trail, flattened the trail, graveled the trail, and obscured the old/original trail. We worked tirelessly, with Mike laying claim to one end of our re-route and Ken claiming the other end. The rest of us floated in between. Hikers who passed by in the morning used the original trail. Those same hikers, just like magic, returning in the afternoon used the NEW trail. It seemed to work for them. Erika pointed out that the Acronym for "Friends of Kananaskis Country" is FOKC. People who vounteer with her, therefore, are FOKCers. We, being from COC, are, therefore COC FOKCers. And proud of it, too! What a satisfying job to see the progress and end results of our efforts. I think this has been my favorite trail maintenace day yet, with Ha Ling running a very close second. Thanks to all who came out and helped - awesome, awesome group. It was really cool having Archy, our Taiwanese visitor come out for the day with us. Ken (The Stalker) may, or may not, have seen a new moon from the car on the way home. -- Rhonda

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Today we added an ~80 foot re-route to the Upper Kananaskis Lakes Trail to replace a section of trail where an enormous tree and a bunch of the trail had fallen over and washed out during the spring floods. When we got there, we saw the damaged trail, and our fearless leader, Andy, showed us a section of thick forest with a few marker ribbons showing where we were putting the new trail segment in. We said "PARDON!!??"

Well, we managed to do it, and a mighty fine job we did, if we do say so ourselves. We pruned trees, Andy felled trees (chain saw), pulaskied our hearts out, hauled dirt out, hauled dirt in, hauled rocks out, hauled rocks in, hauled duff out, hauled gravel in, hauled deadfall out, hauled deadfall in, smoothed the trail, flattened the trail, graveled the trail, and obscured the old/original trail. We worked tirelessly, with Mike laying claim to one end of our re-route and Ken claiming the other end. The rest of us floated in between. Hikers who passed by in the morning used the original trail. Those same hikers, just like magic, returning in the afternoon used the NEW trail. It seemed to work for them.

Erika pointed out that the Acronym for "Friends of Kananaskis Country" is FOKC. People who vounteer with her, therefore, are FOKCers. We, being from COC, are, therefore COC FOKCers. And proud of it, too!

What a satisfying job to see the progress and end results of our efforts. I think this has been my favorite trail maintenace day yet, with Ha Ling running a very close second. Thanks to all who came out and helped - awesome, awesome group. It was really cool having Archy, our Taiwanese visitor come out for the day with us. Ken (The Stalker) may, or may not, have seen a new moon from the car on the way home.

-- Rhonda

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COC Details
COC List
Slumped trail to repair
Trail repair
Relocating gravel
Trail repair
Relocating gravel
Lunch with a view
Staffer gets to use the chainsaw
Rhonda works
Relocating gravel
Relocating gravel

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